As part of a South Asian dance team at Penn, then senior Simran Chand would talk with her teammates, comparing their bicultural childhood experiences to those of white peers. When the conversation veered towards how South Asian parents talked with their children about sex, Chand was hearing the same response: They didn’t. At the same time, Chand was taking a class called Asian American Gender and Sexuality, where she learned about crossover patterns of South Asian American women feeling repressed, sheltered, or held back by their parents along ethnically prescribed sexual boundaries. As a double major in biology and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies double major, Chand was curious if these experiences were part of a wider pattern and, if so, how it this pattern affects young South Asian Americans.
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