Creative Submissions Contest & Campaign

St. Robert Youth Ambassadors - Project 2

For their second project, the St. Robert Youth Ambassador Team held an art and writing contest at their school on the theme of Asian identity and experiences of anti-Asian racism, with the top three winners receiving prizes.

Following the creative submissions contest, the YA team developed a social media campaign to feature the winning artwork and poetry as well as a range of informational posts about Asian identity and AAR. The social media campaign posts aim to share educational content about Western perceptions of Asian communities compared to the diversity and nuance of Asian culture and history.

Topics include the perpetual foreigner stereotype, the perception of Asian cuisine in the West, the fetishization of Asian women, as well as the rich variety of Asian folktales and legends, art and cultural practices.

"Unfair, isn’t it? You’re made to be an overachiever, top of the class, alum of a prestigious university. Then, you’re ordered to be a meek, unaspiring worker who exists only to toil under the rule of another. No one tells you this, of course, this is for you to find out on your own. You can never win."