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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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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Dreamer

by day we race the sun to the summit the clouds just missing our fingertips by night we lay blankets on cars underneath the stars pondering what happens to the dreams when the dreamer dies? ----- see more on film here. ...

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Wake Me Slow

somewhere between dreams and waking is that blissful blank state of being blind to a world that's cold and also let go by those you can't let go three minutes then two o n e fragile heart wake me slow ----- see more on film here. ...

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