Kelly Marie Tran: I Won't Be Marginalized by Online Harassment
Kelly Marie Tran published a letter in the NYT about the treatment and harassment she has received over the years, but especially after she took the role in Star Wars. It is a powerful letter, and the last sentence sent chills down my spine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/movies/kelly-marie-tran.html
"It wasn’t their words, it’s that I started to believe them.
Their words seemed to confirm what growing up as a woman and a person of color already taught me: that I belonged in margins and spaces, valid only as a minor character in their lives and stories.
And those words awakened something deep inside me — a feeling I thought I had grown out of. The same feeling I had when at 9, I stopped speaking Vietnamese altogether because I was tired of hearing other kids mock me. Or at 17, when at dinner with my white boyfriend and his family, I ordered a meal in perfect English, to the surprise of the waitress, who exclaimed, “Wow, it’s so cute that you have an exchange student!”"
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"You might know me as Kelly.
I am the first woman of color to have a leading role in a “Star Wars” movie.
I am the first Asian woman to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair.
My real name is Loan. And I am just getting started."
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You go, Loan! 