'I'm in a really unique position as somebody who has a really unexpected set of advantages and disadvantages,' Meredith Talusan said. 'I am albino and therefore partially blind, but I'm also white-passing. I am a first-generation immigrant.'
," said the idea of writing a memoir came after she had wrapped up writing multiple investigative stories about Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman who was killed by a U.S. Marine. She said reporting on Laude so intensely for so long prompted her to reflect on her own experiences as a Filipina trans woman and made her want to tell her own story.
She described herself as a fresh-off-the-boat stereotype during her high school years, because she had a thick Filipino accent and imperfect grammar and wore the wrong clothes. "I've had the flexibility, as somebody who is perceived as white, to be able to behave in whatever ways I want, without people necessarily stereotyping me and judging my behavior," she said.
"I didn't grow up with a sense that there weren't things that I couldn't do in the world, despite all of these disadvantages," she said."Despite the fact that I couldn't see very well and despite the fact that other people perceived me as freakish."
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