Thank you, Chloe Ting: What I Learned from Completing Five Fitness Challenges
Thank you, Chloe Ting: What I Learned from Completing Five Fitness Challenges Being an Asian American female, I often felt othered in my own body because of my race and gender. It was hard enough to accept my Asian facial features, and a greater challenge still to accept my Asian female body that checked off every stereotype: no curves, small boobs, childlike, rectangular figure. In other words, an easy target for bullying, harassment and fetishism. Not only did I feel very conscious of my un-Kardashian-like form, I couldn’t run for very long, couldn’t lift myself off the ground into a fu...