The Comics of Lisa Lim

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Sunday night I re-re-re watched #michelleyeoh #oscars2023 speech and cried so hard into my pillow over all the emotions I was feeling. The image of Michelle with the googly 👁️ on forehead has multi layers of meaning for me. Like many girls, I grew up...

Sunday night I re-re-re watched #michelleyeoh #oscars2023 speech and cried so hard into my pillow over all the emotions I was feeling. The image of Michelle with the googly 👁️ on forehead has multi layers of meaning for me.

Like many girls, I grew up with images of beauty and talent that did not look like me. I internalized this feeling conscious or not. Tried so hard to be part of this ideal. But couldn’t help but always feel left out. Or a sad imitation of the standard. On the other hand I also grew up with fierce Asian role models. My grandma who was relentless and came to America with nothing, lost her husband shortly after immigrating, raised three boys and ran a laundry shop all by herself without knowing a lick of English. My mother whose life of hard knocks could crumble the strongest of us, but who found a way to thrive. These two worlds were always in conflict with each other. It was the standard the world fed me. Versus the reality I was immersed in with my Asian role models.

Seeing Michelle Yeoh win was a victory for all Asians because it meant we are multidimensional beyond the stereotypes the media has fed the world. Beyond the standards that were created by people who did not look like us. It heralded to the universe that we matter. Our voices matter. Our stories matter. That we as Asians are #everythingeverywhereallatonce
❤️❤️❤️I shared this comic with my son who’s half Asian and Jewish Italian and it gave him a sense of #asianpride
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