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Curate the Change: How South Asian Social Media Can Actually Empower Teenage Girls (Instead of Triggering Them)
Let’s talk about your Instagram feed. Between the “What I eat in a day” videos, the “body glow-up” reels, and those hyper-polished fitness influencers doing 6 a.m. ab workouts — it’s easy to feel like you’re not doing enough. Not thin enough. Not pretty enough. Not enough, period. If you’re a South Asian teenage girl, that pressure hits extra hard. You’re already juggling cultural expectations, colorism, auntie comments, and now… you’re expected to look like a VSCO-filtered Bollywood heroine? Social media could’ve been the space where we broke free.Instead, it became a filtered mirror of everything we were already fighting. But here’s the good news: we can fix this.South Asian…