MAASU

 

On April 7-9, I was at the University of Michigan for a conference that was dedicated to talking about Asian-American issues in the United States. The conference was called MAASU, which stands for Midwest Asian-American Student Union and a bunch of schools in the Midwest were invited to participate. Recently, and this year especially, I have been really getting interested in social current events that have a lot to do with race or gender. I follow a lot of those kind of news accounts on social media so I try to stay up to date of what happening in society. I heard of this conference at the last minute and immediately signed up because it sounded right up my alley. It was pitched to me as a way of networking a lot of other Midwestern Asian-Americans and talking about the issues we as a community face. It was a super informing and fun experience and it really opened my eyes to other Asian-Americans that are as interested as I was in social and racial justice. I learned a lot through my workshops and I loved hearing about other people’s perspectives and thoughts, as well as contributing my own. One of my workshops was about the need for minority representation in literature, which is something that I never really thought about. The workshop focused on children’s books especially and how kids of different races and backgrounds don’t really see themselves being represented. Overall, it was a super cool learning experience and it will be held at OSU next year so I’m counting down the days to the next conference!

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