11126 - Adrianna Tan: "And how much has changed? In …" - disabled.social
In the early 2020s, so many people I knew were spat on, told to go home. Someone held a torch to my face, in San Francisco, home to one of the oldest Chinatowns in the world, and told me she wanted to burn me, for my skin color.
I lived most of my life as a privileged member of society: an English speaking Chinese person in Singapore, where I was born.
I have been involved in AAPI activism, but always felt like a fraud. I had not felt particularly oppressed.
In that moment, I saw cla...