Dr Anna Sulan Masing is a Writer, Poet and Academic.

In her book "Chinese and Any Other Asian: Exploring East and South East Asian Identity in Britain", she explores the vast history of othering and belonging for East and Southeast Asians in the UK, and what it means to be East and Southeast Asian in Britain today.

She says this: 

"I sometimes say I am half white or half Iban Malaysian, but I feel much messier than a half. I feel like my identity spills out of everything and doesn't easily stay within boundaries. I've grown up in multiple cultural spaces, moved through and lived in many locations, and feel both at home and an outsider in all of these places. I want to take control of my identity and not be caught between two places and halves, to have agency and the ability to hold multiple locations and identities in one hand."

Her work sits right at the intersection of identity, place, and belonging.  She asks:

"I am an Asian person from the South East part of the Asian continent. I am not South East Asian. It allows for the question: what part of South East or East Asia is your heritage from?"

We discuss this and more in this podcast chat.

Find out more about her here: https://www.annasulanmasing.com/

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