Blueprint for Allyship: Health Update and How You Can Help (pw)ME

Hoping, praying, expecting, wishing, manifesting, longing for folks to pay attention to this post and read to the very end! Help! This is a call to action and a cry for solidarity. ME advocates cannot sustainably do this alone, so here’s a blueprint for allyship. See my previous posts if you think ME is “me” …

2021 Chinese/Chinese-American Media Roundup!

I don't know about you, but I have definitely spent more time consuming media since the world moved into a virtual and hybrid era. Screens are now the way to see the world, and for the world to see ourselves. As BLM and Stop Asian Hate movements catalyzed national conversations on race, the norm is …

Black Out Statement

Dear Readers, I acknowledge that I am not a perfect activist or ally. It would be ignorant of me to claim that I have always stood in solidarity with the Black community in America. I have been complicit. I have not corrected or called out racism in my community. I have not valued Black labor, …

Ha Ha, Of Course I’m A Feminist!

Ha ha, of course I'm a feminist. There's a lot of change that I'd like to see in the world. I have thousands of pins and ideas saved on social equality. While the board itself is relatively recent, these ideas have been marinating in my head for years. It's past time I use my privilege …

The Promise Inaugural Award Goes to Chris Cornell

Five days ago, Chris Cornell was posthumously awarded the inaugural 'The Promise' award by the Los Angeles Committee of Human Rights Watch. The Promise award recognizes "an outstanding song, television show, or film that advances the values of equity and justice in an original and powerful way." Chris Cornell was recognized for his song, "The …

Now a Member of AMWA – and why it matters

Just a quick update: Today I paid $25.00 to gain membership into the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA), which will last me all my undergraduate years as a pre-medical undergraduate student. They are self-described as "The Vision and Voice of Women in Medicine Since 1915", and have several committees focused on the issues of female physicians …

Courage, ‘Merrica

Has it really been less than 24 hours? When Siddhartha tunes in to himself and his surroundings, he hears the word om, expressed in a multitude of depths and forms. Wisdom. Connection. Peace. For me (and those of us here at Wellesley College - Clinton's alma mater, fyi), that word was a resounding crap, in all …

New Column Launch: “Sun’s Opinion”

I am so excited to announce the launch of my newest column, "Sun's Opinion"! Thus far my blog has been all about myself, what I have experienced, and the things that I have learned, and I think that it is time to turn my scope of writing to the outside world. I used to hold …