There’s something deeply unsettling about being celebrated for your appearance but ignored for your voice. As a South Asian woman navigating digital spaces, I’ve felt this more than once — that quiet tension between being appreciated for how I look, how I dress, how I style my life, but not always for what I say. It’s a strange, frustrating paradox: to be visible, yet unheard. To be admired, but not fully understood. We’re often reduced to an “aesthetic.”The vibrant kurtas, the gold jewelry, the chai cups and hennaed hands — they’re all beautiful, no doubt. They’re part of who we are. But we are not just that. We are more…