These remarks were also offered as public testimony to the Swampscott Board of Select. What matters to me more, what upsets me more than the ongoing lack of transparency is that like so many times during the pandemic, adults are more concerned with adult interests than the constituents those policies and programs were designed to […]
Enough.
It was a Wednesday. I was a high school junior, not yet 17. Throughout the day, I found myself glancing behind me, mentally noting how I could get out of any of my classrooms should the threat arise. At 16, I taught myself situational awareness because just 24 hours before, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris […]
I am not your model minority.
The American cultural mythos of the “model minority” is toxic, insidious, and rampant. It perpetuates racial injustice that harms every member of the Asian-American community, even though most who use it “mean well.” The inherent othering baked into the term — when paired with the unspoken comparative to which “model” a “minority” must strive to […]