Description: Prachi Gupta is the author of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us (2023), a memoir about growing up in an ambitious Indian-American immigrant family; the pressures to over-achieve and belong; the special hell of the “model minority” stereotype; and the hidden shame of mental illness and personal trauma.
Gupta is an award-winning journalist and former senior reporter at the feminist news site Jezebel and co-host of Jezebel's former politics podcast, Big Time Dicks.