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From Here: Celebrating the past, present, and future Asian American and Pacific Islander experience in the US

May 6, 2021, 23:26 IST
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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month.Samantha Lee/Insider

It's a question that dances in small talk and coffee chats, breakout rooms and first dates. A question marked with centuries of othering and ostracizing, a quip meant to demean roots planted in these United States. We're from here - children born from lineages of immigrants and tribes, a community whose diversity reflects the geography we span. We're growing here - grappling with an intersection of othering and belonging, reclaiming a history long-erased in the American education system, and redefining what it means to be an Asian American. We're not leaving here, we're staying. Boldly, loudly, and proudly.

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