Amplifying the Asian American Voice, Starting With My Own

Written for Us Two Tea I am incredibly proud of my heritage. I am beyond grateful that I can communicate well in both English and Mandarin. But I did not always feel this way. Born into a very traditional Taiwanese immigrant family yet raised in an American setting with exposure to American ...

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Freedom Of Speech Is Not Your Excuse For Cyber Harassment

As published on Thought Catalog “You’re the worst, Josephine. Your mom should have done us all a favor and had an abortion.” It all started out as random hateful private messages on Instagram sent by one person from different anonymous accounts. I simply ignored them all, but by the ...

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Mental Health is Valid, And So Are You

As published on Thought Catalog and Z Publishing House's America's Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Nonfiction Trigger warning: this article contains sensitive content involving self harm. I don't think one can truly understand the stark coldness of mental illness until they actually go through ...

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Slow down. Breathe. Look around. This is Life.

Right now, somewhere in the world, she is stepping out into the early morning spring chill with a black coffee in hand, thinking about how at that exact moment, he is arriving home exhausted after a long overnight shift. Somewhere else, someone else is sitting on a train wedged among strangers, ...

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This is the Art of Letting Go

As published on ThoughtCatalog It was a grey day, the air damp with drizzling rain. Head overflowing with thoughts that couldn't be drowned out by the rain, I stopped by the coffee shop to work and found a spot facing out the window. I don't know what made me glance up in that particular moment, ...

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