When I interviewed my mother for a class assignment, she told me that in Korea, she stood on the ground. I imagined her body morphed into the thick chestnut trees planted near her grandmother’s countryside home. In America, my mother added, I float. A Hmong girl with sepsis. Her parents, refugees from Laos, fleeing from…
I still remember the first time that I saw Mo, or Mohini Banarjee, on Disney Channel’s Lemonade Mouth. This was the first time that I ever saw an Indian character on television who was not the socially awkward, nerdy sidekick of the white main characters. She was confident; she stood up for herself; and she…
Every morning when I wake up, my routine is the same: get out of bed, brush teeth, eat breakfast, open laptop, open CCLE, open Zoom, and sit in front of my computer screen until it’s time to go to sleep and start everything over again. Most days, I feel like a cartoon character with a…