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| Born | 1979 |
| Occupation(s) | writer, podcaster, activist |
| Website | La Petite Banane |
Grace Ly (born in 1979) is a French writer, podcaster and anti-racist and feminist activist. [1]
Grace Ly | |
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| Born | 1979 |
| Occupation(s) | writer, podcaster, activist |
| Website | La Petite Banane |
Grace Ly (born in 1979) is a French writer, podcaster and anti-racist and feminist activist. [1]
Ly's parents are Cambodian Chinese. They fled the Khmer Rouge regime and arrived to France in the 1970s. [2] In Grenoble, her father initially ran an Asian food restaurant. Ly and her family were the only Asians in their neighborhood. When Ly was 6 years old, her family moved to Paris. [3] Ly studied law and subsequently worked for eight years for an entertainment company, in France and in London. She however did not find the corporate job fulfilling. [3]
In 2011, Ly launched the blog Petite Banane (Little Banana) dedicated to food. [4] [3] The blog evolved from food to also discuss racial stereotypes that are associated with Asian food and Asian communities more broadly. This led Ly to launch the web-series Ça reste entre nous (It Stays Between Us). [2] In her work, Ly denounces the model minority myth and the corrosive effect of positive stereotypes often associated with the Asian community in France. [4] Imitating accents is one form of casual racism that Ly considers as offensive. [5] Ly's first novel Une jeune fille modèle (A model young girl) was published in 2018. [3] The book is a work of fiction inspired by her personal story. [2]
In 2018 Ly launched the podcast Kiffe Ta Race (Love Your Race) together with the French journalist Rokhaya Diallo. [4] [6] Ly cites among her influences author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. [2]
Margaret Moran Cho is an American comedian and actress. She is known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She rose to prominence after starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95), and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry. Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peoples of the continent of Asia, the usage of the term "Asian" by the United States Census Bureau only includes people with origins or ancestry from the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and excludes people with ethnic origins in certain parts of Asia, including West Asia who are now categorized as Middle Eastern Americans. Furthermore, Central Asians are not mentioned in any census racial category. The "Asian" census category includes people who indicate their race(s) on the census as "Asian" or reported entries such as "Chinese, Indian, Bangladeshi, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Pakistani, Malaysian, and Other Asian". In 2020, Americans who identified as Asian alone (19,886,049) or in combination with other races (4,114,949) made up 7.2% of the U.S. population.
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