“Well, when I’m feeling feelings, I’m not feeling them as an Asian American,” [Mitski] states. “I’m just feeling them as a person, and when I’m writing songs I’m not conscious about my position as an Asian person. I’m not writing politically about being an Asian person. I write personal stories about relationships, and living in this world and being a human being…but I happen to live in a world which views me as an Asian American. So my experiences are tainted by that, even if I’m not conscious of it. Someone said ‘the personal is political’, where it seems like me just being honest about my experiences as a human being and as a person translates as being political about being an Asian American person. I’m not in this to be political or a social activist, it just happens that my being honest is a very political thing.” [source]
