What Are You Writing About?
Someone asked me recently, "what are you writing about?" I found myself a tad flustered and couldn’t articulate it eloquently enough in the moment. I think I might have been surprised, that this person (whom of which I don’t know particularly well at the moment) took notice and asked me about my blog. I felt pretty lame when I didn’t have a well thought out response, and considered I should probably ✲ write it out ✲ At the core of everything, I’m writing about my experience as a mixed/biracial, second generation Filipino Canadian. I know there’s someone out there thinking that I should be writing that the other way around, and every so often it makes me feel like a bit of an imposter. That is a hard, complex topic that I plan to go into at a later date, but as I briefly mentioned in my first post, I am trying to “slowly remove myself from my Caucasian counterparts”. The “being pushed into a space I didn’t want to be in”, and by space I mean a Western ideal based on som...