Gender Theory and the Life of a Trans Girl
Oh my goodness, we are doing this debt ceiling BS again? Okay… there is so much deliberate misinformation of the debt ceiling such that it is difficult to know what it is. So let me try to clarify it. The debt ceiling is a horrible name. The way the government (and quite frankly most companies) …
There has been a lot of Anti Asian Hate that has been going around in the United States. Asian Americans are unique in our experiences and our relations to White people and other communities of color. In this post I went a bit into Asian Americans experiences, the Model Minority Myth and how these affects …
New post on my experiences with Cultural Appropriation from my past.I think my first encounter where I felt Cultural Appropriation was in the mid 2000’s from Gwen Steffani. Back then she had a group of 4 Japanese women as her backup dances and they were known as the Harajuku Girls. Read More…
I have been recently spending my Saturday evenings with an amazing group of Korean American women connecting on our lived experiences and cultures in a new organization called Korean Americans Living their Best Identity or KALBI for short. (Anyone else want to get Korean BBQ all of a sudden?) The amazing people behind KALBI is …
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting. 49 people were murdered. The most deaths of any mass shooting by 1 gunman ever in the US. (until surpassed by the Vegas shooting 1 year later). 5 years ago today waking up to the news. That morning my organization Gender Justice League was asked …
This post contains themes of abuse and racism. The other day, I commented on a Twitter mutual’s picture of a bunch of cute brightly colored pens in the stationary section of a store. I commented that I didn’t think that White people understand Asian people’s obsession with cute pens. Then someone replied that my statement …
I am so tired of all the anti Asian racism that has been escalating in the last year, and now six Asian women have been shot and killed. With all of the anti Asian racism that has been culminating, this has really been inevitable. The last year Trump and the GOP has been repeating racist …
I grew up being horrible at languages. English classes in the US and Korean classes in Korea both have been very difficult to me. Writing was especially difficult. I would stay up late multiple nights to be able to write very basic essays. Throughout my adult years, I have been doing a lot of growing. …
Warning, this post contains themes of Mental Health. This particular day in Art Therapy, the prompt was to express one of the Personal Bill of Rights. I chose to draw a snowflake to express number 12. “I have the right to be uniquely myself.” I think that one right stood out to me because of …
Warning, this post contains themes of Mental Health. One of the things that we have been doing in the Partial Hospitalization Program was Art Therapy. I found art therapy to be very soothing and healing. It helped me escape all my stress, anxiety and depression. I took the art prompts and attempted to put my …