Rediscovering Your Cultural Identity Is Possible Like many other children of immigrants growing up in a white-centric community, I tried to hide my identity most of my formative years. Whenever […]
A young Chinese-American girl in the 1960s helps with her father’s Laundromat in the Bronx, which doubles as their family home. This was before household washers were ubiquitous; business is booming but […]
About a week ago, my dream girls/dream team Awkwafina and Margaret Cho released the anthem Asian women never knew they needed — a song and accompanying music video, “Green Tea.” […]
[to] customer service guy, fun fact: my race is not a conversation starter and I don’t care that your ‘best mate’ is getting married to an asian girl. When I […]
My PRX podcast on my father’s childhood and immigration story is featured on Bitch Media’s Popaganda Episode: Growing Up Immigrant. Listen here: https://bitchmedia.org/article/popaganda-episode-growing-immigrant “When politicians and pundits talk about immigrants, […]
Today in our Fresh Off the Boat roundtable, we discuss episodes 11 and 12. “Very Superstitious” (11) deals with Jessica’s superstitions as she continues her real estate career, and the […]
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