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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...
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Feb 9, 20234 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...
SH
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...
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Aug 20, 202214 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


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


Towards Permanence
I am very excited to share this piece, titled "Towards Permanence," on a positive moment of hope in the path to legality for undocumented...
SH
Feb 8, 20212 min read


On Gilmore Girls and Fear
For years, I’ve relived a scene from the TV show Gilmore Girls. The message from this scene even became a precept under which I lived my...
SH
Jan 6, 20214 min read
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