Gender Theory and the Life of a Trans Girl
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 …
I was visiting my sister in Chicago while my mother was in town from Korea. She always went to see my sister as she had a small baby. My sister left and took the baby with her to give us a little bit of privacy. I came out to her a few months back and …
My legal name is not Sophia, it is actually Sangyoon (상윤). I still go by my Korean legal name to people who speak to me in fluent Korean. It was when I moved to the US during high school I was asked if I wanted to be referred as a different name. I thought about …
One of the many issues that I had when I was early on in my transition was finding positive role models in the transgender community. transgender visibility is a real issue these days. I wanted to find young professional transgender women, and all I could see were people struggling to survive. I wanted to see someone …