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Once in a Spanish/French Language Meetup
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to answer what it is like to be an Asian-American undocumented person, or further how gender might...
SH
Feb 9, 20234 min read


LOVE ME – Will you please love me – I’m not into love but if you love me that’s cool
Sometimes it feels as if almost everyone you meet is expressing just one thing, over and over again. It is an ache to be loved. I used to...
SH
Jan 22, 20231 min read
A Memory from a Certain Register
It was a Saturday in the winter of 2008/2009, and I had just finished taking one of two SAT II subject tests. What the subject was for...
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Dec 5, 20226 min read


The Young Korean-Americans at the Chicago Korean Catholic Church
What they were: Birkenstocks, iPhones, The North Face fleeces, Abercrombie shirts and jeans. Sleek and shiny long hair, mostly natural...
SH
Aug 20, 202214 min read


Another Encounter at the Gym from Hell / On Creation as Inherently Good
Note: numbers in parentheses correspond to endnotes. It was a quiet weekday afternoon in March. The few people at the climbing walls were...
SH
Aug 15, 202210 min read


Mea Culpa
생각과 말과 행위로 죄를 많이 지었으며… …내 탓이요, 내 탓이요, 나의 큰 탓이옵니다. (“I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done… through my...
SH
Jul 18, 20223 min read


The Cringe Blog Post
Note: Numbers in parentheses correspond to endnotes. I have been transitioning from a life lived with rampant dissociation to a life of...
SH
Apr 26, 20229 min read


An Encounter with Another Artist
Note: The story I tell here is not intended to single out an artist and social worker, not to mention to cancel them. For this reason, I...
SH
Apr 19, 202210 min read


Struggling to Make a Friend
I’m back home texting with someone that Erik and I had just met at the climbing gym in the morning that I liked. Originally from Spain, L...
SH
Feb 5, 202219 min read
On the Failure of Education
I am becoming someone else at this point and I’d like to record and share something from the being that I am now, at this point in time...
SH
Apr 9, 202126 min read
An Incident of Anti-Asian Hate
*TRIGGER WARNING: racism, anti-Asian racism, misogyny, some violence* This afternoon, I shared an article on Facebook about the...
SH
Feb 22, 20218 min read


On the leadership growth of a young woman
Friday was my last day of work at the Action Lab for Social Justice at Columbia School of Social Work. After discussion with leadership,...
SH
Feb 1, 20218 min read
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