White Dove In A Brown World
Like a typical millennial, I checked my social media accounts before I even got out of bed and brushed my teeth, this Sunday morning. As...
Are you really listening?
Look. Everyone has an opinion about this. Everyone wants some homogenized deference to a symbol. But there’s a root cause to this entire...
Being Different
One major adversity I face in life is simply being different from everyone else. I struggle with my identity because of my race. What am...
The Token Asian
Growing up as the “Token Asian,” I never stopped to consider the jokes at my expense. Slant-eyes, always smelling like fish, Pacific...
The American Way
I must admit I don’t think I ever felt different until I was about 7 years old. Prior to that, I had always been surrounded by people...
If It Looks Like a Duck...
I was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. My parents divorced when I turned five, and my mother, grandmother and I left...