Posts in Feels
My Bilateral Salpingectomy

I got a call from the scheduler on a Thursday, was scheduled for my pre-op appointment the following Monday, and had my surgery that Friday. My doctor, partner, family, and friends asked me if I was nervous and I only felt euphoria and disbelief. I literally could not process what happened until after the surgery.

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On Being Single for Seven Years

My sister had accused me of being a serial monogamist before this breakup, and it really hit a nerve but I needed to hear it. One of my most intense anxieties around relationships is a loss of self and independence, but once I did not have a romantic relationship to occupy myself, I had to actually wrangle with the issues that made me a codependent serial monogamist in the first place.

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Breaking Up With Friends

Sometimes a friendship doesn’t serve one person or the other, or you have grown in different ways. Maybe there is a hurt that is difficult to forgive or needs time to heal. It can be easy to take friendship for granted, we have friends that we have had since before we were able to talk or came out of circumstances for which we had little control. Friendships are relationships, and relationships take work.

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On Asian-ness

Even though my grandmother told me about the discrimination my father experienced from his teachers being a brown kid…

Even though I have heard the stories from my Asian and Pacific Islander girlfriends about being fetishized and demeaned by men…

Even though I saw the sinophobia, anti-Asian racism, and xenophobia at the beginning of 2020…

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Mindfulness Exercise for Stressful Moments

Dialectical behavior therapy is particularly good for people with suicidal thoughts and those who want to learn how to regulate their emotions. The therapy takes place in several skills-building modules, aided by a series of exercises. I got myself a cute pink and gold binder to hold all of my homework and to get myself excited about doing the work.

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Trauma Survival & Anti-Racism

I have been thinking a lot about trauma and how we can repress or relive it during periods of stress. I wanted to write something to encourage non-black people who are feeling intimidated by anti-racism work, especially people with cognitive disabilities or neurodivergence that can make stressful or violent topics really overwhelming. I am not writing this to promote myself as an exemplary anti-racist or advocate. I am rather trying to honestly convey the things I have learned in my personal anti-racism, privilege, and trauma work.

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I'm a Master

I moved to Seattle the summer of 2015 to start an internship at a landscape architecture firm and start my graduate career at the University of Washington. I was lucky in that I had two friends in the program, and several friends in town, that I could lean into when I felt out of place. I was also lucky that so many of my classmates are wonderful people that have gone on to do incredible things across the world.

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