It will take the longest days and the sleeplessness, and it will take the anger and misunderstanding and the exile and the loneliness. It will take you making it through this.
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All posts tagged “Chinese American”
Crafting the Statement on God’s Justice: Why Not Us?
It’s been a week now since the release of the Statement on God’s Justice. Over 1,000 signatures later, I ask myself what the Statement has meant and what it will mean.
Ada Got Published: Searching for Hope Through a Mother-Daughter Story
I had worried that as the sole Christian in my family, my coming out to my mother would hurt what Christians call my “witness”: the theology I live to demonstrate to others who God is. How can you be a Christian, she asked me then, if you are gay?
Learning the Long Way to Love Your Queer Self
There’s a prevailing Western notion that it’s only by loving yourself that you learn to love others. But self-love – and self-love first and foremost – can seem unattainable for many of us, and especially anyone who struggles with shame.
How My Keepers Kept Me: On Mental Illness & Mental Healing
Last winter, Zora had asked me to write about mental health. I couldn’t finish the post. I was scared and ashamed.
Coming Out While Confucian: Advice & Affirmation
How do you come out to a traditional, conservative East Asian family?
Hey, Kid: 14 Things You Should Know
You’re 14. Happy birthday! Listen, quit fiddling around with your sneakers for a second and let me talk. I don’t have much time with which to tell you what the future will look like, so I’ve culled it down to 14 points. That shouldn’t be hard to remember: 14 years, 14 points.
