Have you ever experienced implicit biases and assumptions about you just because your desi?

Yes. I disagree with how certain biases have to do with how you carry yourself. Biases can sometimes come from someone else's ignorance and may not always have anything to do with you. I am direct on being a sexually open woman and dress Westernized, but I have had a few people in my life also stereotype me as not having any sexual experience (even when I previously told them that I was sexually active since my teenage years). I think that the people stereotyping me weren't listening to me, and just wanted to see what they wanted to see.

On the other hand, I have had other people who were able to intuitively tell that I was sexual. Some people are good judges of character. Others aren't.

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