I want my kids to grow up and never hear “go back to your own country.” Like I did. I want my kids to grow up without their voices stifled, their hearts trampled.

I want them to be noisy and proud. Free of the burden of not belonging.

Because you don’t hear a lot about noisy Asians. More than likely, you don’t think about Asian people at all.

That invisibility is the problem.

Here’s what keeps you from seeing & hearing us:

• 🏆 Model minority myth : you think we’re “quiet, obedient & hard working.”

• 🚷 Bamboo ceiling : we’re a third of corporate America but 1.5x less likely to be promoted to the C-suite than White people.

• 👊 Anti Asian violence : we’re easy victims as violent hate crimes against us has spiked 339% this year.

So hey, it’s not an easy time to be Asian.

We’re more than our alignments & contradictions to a tired, ethnic stereotype.

We’re trying our hearts out to fit into a world that doesn’t seem to care.

And we need the world to care about our entire, silently suffering community.

It’s time to be a Noisy Asian.

Because we have to do better.

It’s time to hear us.