I enjoy writing poetry and narratives in my free time! I always try to capture social angles within my works, as I believe that those aspects of life need to be discussed and talked about. In my free time, I love to volunteer and give back to the community, swim and talk about fashion. "i am (not) your model / minority" addresses the model minority myth in America, which is that Asian-Americans work harder than other minorities and are more successful as a result. What the model minority myth fails to realize is that "Asian-American" is a monolith -- Asian-Americans are comprised of Southeast, East, and West Asians, which themselves are made of thousands of different groups. Southeast Asians face much more financial adversities than their East Asian counterparts and the label "Asian-American" smothers all this nuance. In addition to this, minority groups in America face systemic oppression and therefore, their relative success or lack of success are not merely up to "hard work" -- racial groups' economic status is affected heavily by laws, housing and other systems of oppression.