Jireh Deng: Assimilation; Thanks, but the role of white girl is already taken (Poems)

Jireh Deng (she/they) is a writer born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California. Her words appear with the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, podcast “VS”, Edsurge, Level Ground’s “Blooming in the Whirlwind”, and YouthSpeaks’s anthology “Between my Body and the Air”. She has performed with the San Francisco Public Library, the Human Rights Campaign, TEDx, amongst others. A journalist, she is the 2021-2022 student board representative of the Asian American Journalist Association’s Los Angeles Chapter and currently an editorial pages intern at the LA Times.

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