memoir
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When We Weren’t Afraid
When my brother and I were kids, we used to bring snacks to a homeless man on the bike path. Years later, we saw someone who might’ve been him—laughing, lost, and unrecognizable. Now I think about how easy it once was to trust strangers, before the world taught me caution. Continue reading
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We Were Bold, We Were Six
At school we played boldly, unaware how soon innocence would splinter beneath heavier cracks. Continue reading
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Cool Asian Americans: on double eyelids, belonging, and learning not to measure worth by beauty
While my body fights off this uncomfortable cold, I will share a little something with you that I scribbled down recently after reviewing Kaila Yu’s memoir, Fetishized. This is a vulnerable reflection about my own personal relationship with feeling beautiful as an Asian American. *** Cool Asian Americans. Import cars, pinup models, house parties, clubbing, Continue reading
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Books I’ve Been Reading: Fetishized by Kaila Yu
Powerful. Reading Kaila Yu’s memoir reopened some old wounds I’d been carrying for decades. Like Kaila, I had internalized a lot of messages about the value of beauty and external validation in an attempt to fill the void of self-hatred inside. But unlike Kaila, who was attractive much more successful at romping with the cool Continue reading
Eden Onpeng 