When third-year civil engineering student Michelle Truong discovered UCLA’s Teochew Association (TCA) her freshman year, she was taken aback. It never occurred to her that UCLA had a large enough Teochew community to form a club. Growing up in Garden Grove, she didn’t know many other Teochew people her age, aside from her family members. …
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It was a cloudy day and there was a hint of rain in the air. But a ray of sunlight piercing the clouds made me hopeful that my first trip to Disneyland would not be ruined. And before you ask, no, I wasn’t five! I was seventeen, and it was my first time in the…
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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…
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TW: body image, weight You are afraid of numbers. Specific numbers—numbers in context, numbers with meaning. A strange fear, one endowed with a weight given by labels and measurements, given teeth by what they represent. Made larger, more threatening, by what they mean. You are scared of size. It is curious the way clothing morphes…
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Where there are women, there is the glass ceiling; where there are Asian Americans, there is the bamboo ceiling. The bamboo ceiling is a term derived from the glass ceiling theory in 2005 that recognizes the invisible barriers that stop Asian Americans in the workplace from rising above a certain level. As the Asian American…
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