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 …
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Cultural Appropriation
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…
KALBI
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 …
Asian in America
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 …
Where are you from?
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 …