Convoy: this street in San Diego that I have always found myself going back to for all it’s given me. There continues to be this enchanting presence of multiple aspects of Asian culture and enthusiasm when my family and I visit on occasional weekends. Our trips have nearly become a tradition and have given me …
I was born in the French countryside of Alsace and raised with Japanese parents. They both worked in a school for Japanese children in the region. Unfortunately, the school closed in 2005 because the number of pupils attending, kept decreasing. My mother quickly found a job as a Japanese teacher for French high schoolers, but …
There is a price we pay when we conform to what society expects us to be, especially when it does not align with our needs for freedom, rest, and pleasure. For the longest time, I refused to believe that something wasn’t right in how I was living my life. Let me back up. If you …
How I Reclaimed My Asian Identity Through Yoga and Healing In Community Read More »
It’s hard to imagine that in seemingly progressive and diverse countries, such as Canada and America, keeping your identity would ever be an issue. You would think that everyone is respectful and inclusive of each other’s religious beliefs, and would accept any religious identities people choose to keep or wear. Sadly, this is not the …
Whitewashing. As an Asian, it’s a term that comes up endlessly in one’s fight for visibility in Western society. Paler skin and eurocentric features are praised on social media, culture is mocked and appropriated. So widely observed and extremely complex, it is important that the community can identify the harms of what this term in …
