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Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.
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Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
Jenny Zhang
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Coming out of the closet doesn't always mean liberation.
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It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance.
Jenny Zhang -
The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also see a deeper violence - the one that's not as showy or as immediately arresting, but kind of the more unsolvable violence that lurks underneath.
Jenny Zhang -
I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do I become the protagonist of a story?
Jenny Zhang