This week (February 22-28th) is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week! Eating disorder advocacy, research, and treatment often focus on (white, cis) women. So I wanted to share my story with you as a reminder that not all folks who struggle with eating disorders can affect anyone. Eating disorders do not Read more…
A lot of folks ask me how I take care of myself and balance all the things I do. The short answer is: Sometimes, I don’t. This is hard work and this is heart work. It is invigorating, life-giving, and heart-filling. And it is exhausting. The trolls, ignoramuses, and haters Read more…
My Favorite Educators/Content Creators to Follow @rachel.cargle, she/her (my no.1 favorite anti-racism learning account) @theconsciouslee (fantastic anti-racism and all around social justice account) @blairimani, she/her (a Black bisexual muslim cis woman, activist) @mattxiv, he/they (cis gay man, activist) @yvesdropper, he/him (Black gay cis man, activist, Yves often posts beautiful and Read more…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/the-myth-of-the-model-minority/2017/04/14/aa6c4bf4-213a-11e7-bb59-a74ccaf1d02f_video.html [1] Wu, Huizhong. “The ‘model minority’ myth: Why Asian-American poverty goes unseen.” December 14, 2015. http://mashable.com/2015/12/14/asian-american-poverty/#.UK4LnHskgqr via Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race. Basic Books. Kindle Edition. [2] https://time.com/5859206/anti-asian-racism-america/ [3] Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race. Basic Books. Kindle Edition. [4] http://college.usatoday.com/2014/10/15/students-reject-the-model-minority-myth/ via Read more…
⚠️ WARNING: this video is hard to watch. Another shocking attack in Oakland’s Chinatown. 8th and Harrison Streets. Outside the Asian Resource Center. 20+ robbery/assault incidents in the neighborhood according to the Chinatown Chamber president. https://t.co/9bo9PzuqiL pic.twitter.com/8h6dkNA1TG — Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) February 4, 2021 Sources: [1] https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html [2] https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7vwR2HNM7/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again [3] Read more…
Schuyler Bailar is the first transgender athlete to compete in any sport on an NCAA Division 1 men’s team. By 15, he was one of the nation’s top-20 15-year-old breaststrokers. By 17, he set a national age-group record. In college, he swam for Harvard University, on the winningest Harvard team Read more…
I’m following along Rachel Cargle’s #DoTheWork prompt’s for Black History Month. I hope you do, too. I’ll be collecting my learnings here. I encourage you to do more research through these as well. DAY TWELVE: Combahee River Collective DAY ELEVEN: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee DAY TEN: National Association of Colored Read more…
A lot of folks worry about talking to kids about gender. They worry we are going to confuse them or “make” them transgender. There are many fallacies in these beliefs. First, no one can “make” someone transgender. You either are or are not transgender. Kids are not going to be Read more…
DID YOU KNOW CHILD MARRIAGE IS LEGAL IN 46 STATES? And just five years ago, it was legal in all 50. Keep reading to learn more and take action. ① CHILD MARRIAGE LEGALIZES RAPE (From EQUALITY NOW): Q: What is the “statutory rape exception”? A: Statutory rape is when one of Read more…
Below is the letter I wrote my grandmother when I came out to her. She is a Korean Catholic woman who immigrated here in the lat 1960s and I was absolutely terrified to tell her about my transness. Please note that this letter is from 2015, before I’d really found Read more…