Accidental Altars
Choose, the specter points in opposite directions.
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Posts Tagged: heritage
The Ugly Side of Ambition: A Conversation with Joy Lanzendorfer
Joy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
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Both Trauma and Sin: Elizabeth Miki Brina’s Speak, Okinawa
Speak, Okinawa is masterful at describing the internal dissonance that mixed race children can feel.
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Carrying the Stories of Our Ancestors: A Conversation with Anjali Enjeti
Anjali Enjeti discusses SOUTHBOUND and THE PARTED EARTH.
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Nepantla and Radical Empathy: Talking with Sergio Troncoso
Sergio Troncoso discusses his new anthology, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS.
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He Comes While We Are Walking
It doesn’t feel good, does it? I didn’t see it coming either.
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Acclimation
Such distinguished hybridity joined us all, animal and human, in a lonely, exclusive tribe.
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Diaspora, Reconstructed
Some people say dreams are a glimpse into an alternate reality.
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Masters of Movement: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
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Seaweed Soup (Miyuk Gook
미역국)
This is my mother’s soup. This is what I aim for.
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A Space for Magnanimity: Talking with E. J. Koh
E. J. Koh discusses her debut memoir, THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE OF OTHERS.
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Geography of Peaks and Dips and Lights
I looked out the window again, and there it still was.
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Aswang as a Second Language
She holds me. We hold each other.
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A Storm Underneath: Talking with Shonda Buchanan
Shonda Buchanan discusses her new memoir, BLACK INDIAN.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Sanae Yamada’s Favorite Foods
It’s beyond comfort food. And when I’m out on the road it’s a signifier of home.
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On the Futility of Defying Extinction
Always, when my father spoke to me in words I could not understand, my guilt spoke back.
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An East African Girl and Her White Troubadours
I was a lonely, dreamy, occasionally silly girl.
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How Langston Hughes Inspired #TweetYourThobe
Langston, I am finally at the table, eating with everyone.
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Smoke Screen
I am an oracle who, while dispensing answers to all those who seek them, cannot predict my own future.
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Death and Rebirth: Armenians in Jerusalem
When I was young, my grandma told me that Armenians are distant descendants of Noah.
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Grape Leaves
Comfort and memory and grief commingled in the dish.
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Love, Marriage, and the Bicultural Identity: Talking with Huda Al-Marashi
Huda Al-Marashi discusses her new memoir, FIRST COMES MARRIAGE.
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The Fraught Business of Identity: Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know
All You Can Ever Know insists that the stories we use to understand ourselves should be allowed as much complexity as the truth dictates.
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Seeking Terra Firma
To truly know a land is to become it—to embody its storms in your bones, taste its dark soil beneath your nails, know the tangled history of the people who walked before you.
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On Making Wishes
It is true that I’m talking to a photo, but I’m not crazy. Neither am I a durochka. Fools are oblivious, at least those from my childhood fairy tales. I, on the other hand, am perfectly aware of the problem.
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Mothers of My Diaspora
It paralyzes me to think about the sacrifices my family made before I was in my mother’s womb. When they came here they knew they would lose a part of their language, their memories, their sanctity of self.
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TORCH: Lessons From My Grandma on Language and Silence
The sounds I made were pleasant to my ears, but that’s all they were to me. I was too young to understand what culture and heritage meant, too young to understand the reasons behind memorizing ancient poems.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Savage Mind, Pt. 1
The violence came in and we were not just in danger of being victims of it. We were in danger of being violent ourselves.
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