Travel is Life-Changing; This I Believe
I was cleaning out an old thumb drive and found this short essay I wrote in high school. The assignment was based on the criteria for NPR’s This I Believe […]
Individual Empowerment Through Chinese Internet: Pursuing Family Reunification
This is a paper I presented at the 2016 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Introduction: Imagine taking a child to the grocery store, […]
Reclaiming My Name
by Selena Pruitt — Paraguayan adoptee, teacher, incredibly funny friend Originally published in Gazillion Voices Magazine, 2014. The year I was born, the name ‘Sarah’ was the fifth most popular […]
Black Panther – Wakanda Forever
Some time ago I was watching Rodger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with a couple of friends along with one friend’s nine-year-old cousin. Within the first thirty minutes of the movie, the little blonde girl plainly […]
The Political Economy of Violence Against Women (Review)
Jacqui True. The Political Economy of Violence Against Women. New York, NY. Oxford University Press. First Edition. 2012: 192. Gender based violence is the leading cause of death of women […]
DoDW – Lantern Festival & Shanghai Day 1
Lantern Festival – 3/05/2015 Refer to A 元宵节 UPDATE: here Shangai Day 1 – 3/06/2015 Today, we took the bullet train to Shanghai. It was a really interesting experience and […]
Emma’s Story (Review)
Emma’s Story Authors: Deborah Hodge, Song Nan Zhang (Illustrator) Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Plot Summary: Emma and her brother are making cookies at their grandma’s house when she notices that she is the […]
Shedding Whiteness
by Jon Straker – Korean adoptee, artist, friend Originally published in Gazillion Voices Magazine, 2015. I’m so excited to promote my friend Jon’s work in this post. We went to […]
To Adoptees from “Shithole Countries” and Elsewhere
When I was young and I would get into arguments with my mom, I would oftentimes shout out, “You don’t love me!” Of course, I knew this wasn’t true. My mother […]
一家一子政策 (One Child Policy)
This is a very condensed summarization in Mandarin of a research paper I wrote a few years ago and also posted on this blog, China’s One Child Policy: Past, Present, […]
