Identity Reflection
Your girl’s been having a little bit of an identity awakening over here. 🔮🤯 I’ve just been reflecting on how more and more, I feel like I identify most as being a creative. 👩🏻🎨
Idk… I feel like so many people have lots of things to say about my “career” and what’s legitimate or not and I feel like what’s becoming clear for me is that I don’t fit into any of the boxes 📦 I’m literally over here breaking all the rules and creating shit that has never existed…which is its own form of art!💪🏼 ✨
And at the same time, sometimes this makes me feel inadequate, like my work is not as valuable or prestigious as…say…a memoir or a block-buster hitting novel…but like, why? 🤔 Why is there a hierarchy of art? Why is it something that brings joy or entertainment or is in any shape or form considered “play” viewed as not as important?! 🎨🤸🏻♀️
In all this reflection, I’ve been getting a LOT of inspo from documentaries 🎥💡 (like the ones about Shawn Mendes and JLO and BLACKPINK) and I’m trying to embrace the vibe that Shawn has when someone asked him how to become a songwriter like him, and he said: “do you write songs?” She said yes, and he replied: “then you’re a songwriter.” 🙌🏻 Can it really be that simple?!
Say it with me: I am allowed to be whoever I choose. 🙇🏻♀️
Just HAD to Share!
For all my frands looking for a show that CELEBRATES being Asian 🎉 (bc lord knows we’re all feeling the heaviness of the current state of the world…), check out Lisa Ling’s Takeout on HBO! It’s like Padma Lakshmi’s Taste The Nation but focusing exclusively on Asian cultures. Let’s be honest, I cried (more than once). 😅 Plus the theme song is the Linda Lindas…so there’s that.
PS – how’s this cosmic timing?! 💫 JUST as I’m writing this to you expressing how I want to be seen as a creative, I get news that a new anthology I have two pieces in is out NOW! 🥹
It’s called Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World, and I’m honored to be included with these inspiring authors and creatives alike, hope you’ll enjoy our works too! 💛✨
Cheers to you living your life and doing your best. I see you. I’m here for it. Love you to the moon and back👩🏻🚀❣️
XO,
Elizabeth