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The Cost of Not Being Counted: Why The Census Matters

Achieving a fair and accurate census count is incredibly important when we look at the…

Stop Using My Identity As A Joke

To the guy who said: “I thought I had found the perfect Asian guy ……

Game On!

“Our base is under attack”!!! A familiar ambiance I had almost forgotten, ringing again loud…

Cajun

Not long after I moved to the States and got married, my husband -who is…

The Day I Came Home to Myself

I wear two identities. In one, I am an Indian immigrant raising my mixed-race daughter…

A Mythical Mother

As a Korean transracial adoptee, I’ve always known I was adopted. It has been a…

What it’s like to be Asian…

As an Asian-American who has lived nearly her whole life in America, I never really…

You Would Not Have Heard The Music

Luke has planned our whole anniversary weekend; after over a decade of relationship, my first…

The Party That Shook Up The World: The Legend of D-NICE and Collective Joy During a Global Pandemic

We’ve seen this movie before, right? It is why art-making, craft and creating is as…

A Quarantine Playlist

In my sheer boredom as a result of quarantine from the COVID-19 outbreak, I took…

What I Learned From Trying to Fit In

In second grade, one of the few Asians in the year group, I brought to…

Best Birthday Ever

I would love to say that the moment my husband and I first met was…

How the Relationship that Pushed My Boundaries Taught Me to Stand Up for Myself

From a young age—even before I was old enough for my first real crush—I fantasized…

What it Cost to be Adopted

The New York Times (NYT) recently published a piece, “What I Spent to Adopt My…

“What Would I Do If I Were Mugged?”

It’s funny that I write this for The Ascent, as the following happened while sprinting on…