Gender Theory and the Life of a Trans Girl
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 …
Recently there has been a lot of efforts from Republicans and conservative groups to ban transgender girls from sports. The Republicans and conservative groups have put out a lot of bad information that plays off of people’s fears and tried to make their arguments sound reasonable. So I have tried to refute them as well …
Warning, this post contains themes of Mental Health. This is the last in a three poem series that I wrote while going through a lot of my trauma as a Korean American immigrant. The poems are meant to show my progression in the struggles. This one is from my experiences in being able to find …
Warning, this post contains themes of Mental Health. This is the second in a three poem series that I wrote while going through a lot of my trauma as a Korean American immigrant. The poems are meant to show my progression in the struggles. This one is from my experiences from high school to college. …
Warning, this post contains themes of Mental Health. Going to the Partial Hospitalization Program has really got me looking into myself a lot and addressing a lot of the trauma that I have had in my life. It had lead me to express my trauma in many different ways. These three poems were written when …
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. Today is the last day of my medical leave, and it has been a long journey. For the longest time I have had passive suicidal thoughts. Passive suicidal thoughts as in feeling like if something were to happen to me, it would be okay. During the pandemic …
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 …
I cringe every time someone asks me this question. And it happens a lot on a regular basis. How am I supposed to answer this question? I have now lived in Seattle for 7 years. Does that give me permission to say that I am from Seattle? Seattle is a city filled with people from …