As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.


The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology (ed. CALYX Books, 1993)

Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes

As a first-generation Asian American woman, for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an Asian American woman. Within this homogenizing...

As a first-generation Asian American woman, for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an Asian American woman. Within this homogenizing...

As a first-generation Asian American woman, for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an Asian American woman. Within this homogenizing...

As a first-generation Asian American woman, for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an Asian American woman. Within this homogenizing...