Plan A | My Time with Mirabel
How a Japanese internment camp survivor unexpectedly validated my Korean adoptee pain.
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Yes! Magazine | How I Found Racial Healing During the Pandemic
Practicing Radical Acceptance we let go of the idea that it’s our job to prove our worth as humans; to change who we are, or how we’re perceived.
Plan A | Safe in Our Own Skin
Some like to pretend light-skinned East Asians are The Other White Meat, and we’re supposed to happily act out the facade. In truth, Asians in the West have little political power, the greatest income gap, and have always been targets for under-reported social violence.
Alone
Dying alone is a fear shared by many during the influx of COVID-19. But for adoptees like me, it circles back to an anxiety woven into my fabric when I was born.
Plan A | The Good White Folks
There’s a certain type of White folk who refer to themselves as the Good Ones. Those words are tossed on like a cape meant to magically conceal and absolve racism.
Plan A | The Endless War Within
Asian Women, Sexual Violence, and Adoption.
Yes! Magazine | The Trauma of Transracial Adoption
Like many transracial adoptees with White parents, I was raised in racial isolation, which caused me to have a fractured identity, experiencing racial confusion and internal bias.