Practicing radical self-love in the face of apathy is a matter of survival. Tough time to be an Asian woman in America. I feel very alone and invisible. Few people will understand the long trauma of this experience and many more know much worse. This week, all I can do is do my best to cope and learn from the ancestors. Then we organize and fight for change.
[4-panel comic of a girl with a bun, coping with a subtle, dismissive kind of racism. In panel 1, she is sitting in front of a laptop, with a pencil behind her ear, listening to the audio of someone swearing. In panel 2, she scribbles the phrase on a notepad. In panel 3, she practices saying the word out loud. In panel 4, she takes a sip of tea. Caption of comic reads: "Fighting the erasure of my Asian American identity...by learning to swear...in the language of my ancestors." Comic is titled: "Practicing Radical Self-Love." Autobio comic strip by Connie Sun, cartoonconnie, 2022.]
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There was a light in San Francisco this week for Chinese Americans everywhere. Chinese American parents in San Francisco played a major role in the recall of three members of the School Board there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/us/san-francisco-school-board-parents.html
They made their voices heard at the ballot box. Leadership used WeChat app to text to each other, overcoming the problems of communicating to a community that speaks boyth Mandarin and Cantonese.
The Chinese voting community will be a force for positive change.
But hold to those swear words! You may need them yet.
I would love to have a brief tutorial on the topic.
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