Kasthury Paramiswaran

I am a 22-year old, anxious Malaysian Indian who is an unemployed graduate. Being a diplobrat, and going to international schools where the Western ways are the only standard to live by, I have always faced racism embedded in the most subtle ways. In fact, being the ethnic minority in my own country, I have been systematically marginalized by laws and the social norm. Hence, I channel all my anger and revolt through my words. I speak out through my poems about how being a feminist would get me raped in Malaysia, and people have always shortened my name from Kasthury to Kas because they favored their convenience.