What Does It Mean to Live in an Asian Female Body in America?

How I've lived under covert racism without realizing it

I never imagined that I would write about this subject. As an Asian woman with a body that doesn’t conform to the American standard of sexy, it never occurred to me that I wouldn’t be able to escape the common stereotype of the Asian woman as a sex object, no matter how much I tried to deny it.

I refused to associate myself with such stereotypes. After a…