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A well-intentioned friend said to me, "That's just you. You were going in a political direction." He's right; I am a politicized person. But-- as I explained to him-- I do not just happen to be political. I looked around to see what was happening and decided I refuse to be part of the problem. That was the beginning, not the end.Likewise, today doesn't just happen to be Martin Luther King,

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I am often surprised and humbled by my hairstylist’s insight. I itch for these hair appointments, but not for the shampoos and scalp massages that other clients may long for. I am rejuvenated by these visits to the salon because of Chris. Youthful and middle-aged, Chris is stylish, always well-composed in his outfits.To me, Chris represents a slice of Vietnamese America. He is heavy with

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sometimes change is an uphill battle but luckily books have their way of finding me at the right time. i wrote this a few days before i reached page 45 into gloria anzaldúa's @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Times-Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }

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If my heart and my mind could bleed in ink, they would scrawl that I am tired of dates talking about neo-liberal politics. Stop telling me that capitalism offers solutions; you are ruining my dessert. I am tired of men who think their brain-power correlates to their dick-power. I am tired of dates acting like I have never changed or that I do not have the right to grow beyond their level. High

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Remember when you asked me to think of home?We talked about motherlands, more complex than our words unspokenNext to a fire, we had curled in separate armchairsStupidly spoke of seizing love and life.Today, we areyears apartandI thought of you.-------------------------* simply cannot post the full piece.

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Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself. Don't let the ink coagulate in your pens. Don't let the censor snuff out the spark, nor the gags muffle your voice. Put your shit on paper.-Gloria Anzaldúajot some words on scratch paper one night. i want to add, "prepare a new canvas."reading some poetry from My Words Consume Me: An Anthology of Youth Speaks Poets.

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(these are lines in a poem somewhere. i am still out finding the rest of it.)...Be it we areYellow like the canvas for nationhood, three lines of blood red slid down our calloused hands.Or Yellow like a single star, like a big dipper pointing forward through centuries of red tumultuous struggle.

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, opre@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }I’m not about to join their tirade against beautiful, young, criminals who in some other world could have been poets, or

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I have been writing more in the last month than I have in a long time. I worry when I produce so much. In part I am scared because of my misconception that creation should be difficult, painful, draining. Also, I fear writing to appease, writing to meet expectations, and most of all I am scared of losing myself, my intentions, and my message in the process of creation.There are a few pieces

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dedicated to a woman who writes poetry, plants poetrees, nurturing poetesses.I was moved as my train pushed north and I watched miles of graffiti lettering unfurl behind buildings. I thought: people can risk their lives to create beauty even if few ever get to bear witness to that effort and even if those who are lucky enough to briefly peer into the process or catch glimpse of the end product

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feeling a lot of inspiration.by feeling, i mean physically trying to hold it together. everything is a trigger lately. woke up one day last week at 4 in the morning. grey skies failed to comfort me so i found my work instead. when i get nervous, i feel like throwing up. i end up sitting quietly, trying to attack my reasons for nervousness but rarely get out the words. could this just be me?

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Unemployment has been a friend of mine for only a month now and already we have had an emotional time together. He has opened my heart to dreams and disappointment. This time has been an exercise in resilience. Quick! Get up! That (other) dream job is slipping away. Some days are filled with high expectations and heart-pounding nervousness, first-date-worthy nervousness. Others are idle. I

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Gotta cop this book soon and start finding that Baldwin-esque voice.Ill-literacy member, Adriel Luis on Baldwin's legacy.

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Inspired by a certain Viet lady.Note the overuse of the word "develop." Also, nothing about marriage or children. kthx!

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Here is a bare-bones description of my own feminist vision: this is a vision of the world that is pro-sex and –woman, a world where women and men are free to live creative lives, in security and with bodily health and integrity, where they are free to choose whom they love, and whom they set up house with, and whether they want to have or not have children; a world where pleasure rather than just

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Etched posters on Webster & 14th St (-ish).Last week at West Oakland Middle School, normally calm adults jumped at loud noises. The week before we started teaching summer school, we found out about a shooting injuring five mourners in a crowd.* The vigil in West Oakland was for a young man killed at a bus stop in East Oakland. Youth taken by violence—unfortunately the line rings like a cliché.

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I spent the last four months, slowly poring over Grace Lee Boggs’ memoirs, Living for Change. I started the book looking to her as a model for how an Asian American could contribute to radical movement in the U.S. Her words filter Marxism and dialecticism to their root concepts. Her book provides insight into the development of revolutionary groups from the 1930s to the present. She recalls

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Rode my bike around West Oakland this week to acquaint myself with the gears of my new-old bike. I'm just going to say this once more: riding in Oakland is beautiful. I feel empowered as I actively engage with neighborhoods, make "driving" decisions, and rely on my body for fuel. The physicality of it is... well, pretty sexy.Of course, like most developments in my life, biking reminds me that

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Once upon a time, I was young enough to want to be a writer. ...I hope I am aging backwards and recognizing and re-imagining possibilities. Below are some edited excerpts from my journal.“I am also learning that I do not want to be loved as an anomaly. I always thought we were loved because we were special. I don’t want to be. I want to be loved as an equal, as not-exotic, as learner-teacher

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Can one feel one’s life shifting rapidly? That one is on a path to better understanding oneself, building community, and resisting history?I am working on a personal essay about this past week, about being Vietnamese American, about beginning to bust through barriers built around me. It has become necessary for me to recognize that there are others like me; that Asian/Vietnamese/American

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I think of this as a playful twist on the "rise up" mantra. This is bathroom decor in Jumpn Java's restroom. I spent a morning working there and half-listening to a high school adviser conduct an hour long parent-student conference. Ugh, painful."MOUCH"? I spotted this next to SubRosa Cafe, on my way to test-drive a bike next door... actually at a bike shop I previously disliked because it

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It seems to me that the life of Grace Boggs has been an exercise of will. Through sheer will, without waiting for social conditions to come around and without waiting to explore her identity, she turned her back on who she was and barged into new territories. She was a woman who barged into men's territory; she was a Chinese who barged into black territory she was an intellectual who barged in

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How should students be taught when their way of being is heavily informed by oppression? We can work on this question forever, but I recently realized a more nuanced form of that same question: How can teachers work with students to attack internalized oppression when sane and healthy actions are equated to "white" culture? Essentially, how do we teach our students healthy ways of being when

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“I’ve studied with my people on streets and in church.” –Dialated Peoples “Worst comes to worst”A quick note. As I was writing one day, I noticed how the word wholly and holy are pronounced and spelled similarly. I wrote in an earlier post that people who live in contradictions with themselves must work towards self-recovery. The similarity of the words struck me as I had been thinking about

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This New Year's marked one year since Oscar Grant's death. Pictures from the gathering at the Fruitvale BART.The board with the images are of men and women killed by law enforcement, including Gary King and Daniel Son Pham (both below).King reminds me of so many of the young men with whom I went to school. And Pham, he could be a relative...I cannot explain the psychic fear and sadness

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Obviously, there was an earthquake in Haiti this past week, followed by a huge aftershock today. While reports of the earthquake tend to make clear that this is Haiti’s largest earthquake in 200 years, media talking heads rarely explain why these details matters. Homes in the Caribbean are made of cement, protecting people from hurricanes, not earthquakes. As the poorest country in the Western

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…there are too many people too broken down to have dreams and risking dreams and visions, yet if we do not have visions, then what is the use of all this.we must feed the Dream.-Fay ChiangA more overtly political post in line next. But as Fay encourages us, I need to share a bit of my vision for myself.Sometimes a year passes and it feels much longer than one year. How could so much emotion be

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…This is about love.This is about love turning up its volume ‘til we shake,until our arms and legs move,until we shout with multiple tongues and whisper in each others’ ears,I will never ask you to change your name.I will never ask you to change your name.Your name is at home on my tongue.In this land that wants us blind, deaf, asleep, defeatedWe have to make our own music because none of these

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“This is the oppressor’s language, yet I need to talk to you.” –Adrienne RichI remember sitting on the wooden bed. The U.S. army fatigue blanket rested upon a straw mat. Another decade had passed and I was finally back on the land where my ancestors have lived. Vietnamese swirled around me. I would smile awkwardly at guests. Sip tea to keep my hands busy and my mouth silent. Wear long pants

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"You're Chinese. You're white!!!" Ashake yelled at me like I made no sense. I wondered if she pitied me for not understanding my own identity."How do you know?""Look-- They are Chinese," she pointed at a few Chinese boys hanging out across the yard, "and you look just like them. You're white!""But what is white?"A Cambodian middle-schooler chimed in, "Their skin. You know based on their skin

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Teaching is heavily tied to the heart. I almost want to purge the love from my body.Today I walked around unable to undo a discomfort in myself, feeling tense and pubescent in my ability to pinpoint my emotions. Only now, as I plan for tomorrow, do I realize why I still feel like vomiting my heart.It shakes my soul how I worry about my students. Today in particular, I am concerned if they

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Trucks:I've been wanting the capture these trucks for years. Here's a pair that I chose to post. I'm a bit bothered by the caricature of the Asian faces. Yet what's more interesting is what I see as the orientalization of the sexual images of the black women in the second photo. Black hair = Chinese queues? Gives "chinky eyes" another layer of meaning.Bikes:I learned today that a bike lock

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A quick post to share this recent New York Times article and slide show on the risks Vietnam faces from rising sea levels…The photos in the slideshow disturb me and strike me as voyeuristic. From the creative point of view, these are some gorgeous photos. From more of a critical cultural studies perspective, the slideshow embodies America’s mystification and romanticization of a former “enemy.”

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I was helping translate at a financial aid workshop today for an organization I was a part of in high school. We were wrapping up a short informal discussion with parents: quelling their fears about sending their high school seniors away to college, reiterating that there is money for them (these are all low-income families), and reassuring them that the organization would be there to support

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Listen to his, revolution of syllablesScoping lightning from his poresKeeping time, with his hurricane beatAsking us to pick ourselves up and become, THUNDER.-Sonia Sanchez on Talib's "Everything Man"Take 2- a moment to look at the murals surrounding one half of Oakland High School. These were all done by OHS students, led by teachers Jackie Marston and Keith Williams, known as K-Dubb.

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Last week one of New York Times’ most shared article was “The Women’s Crusade” by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, a philanthropist. While I was pleased that the piece raised the issue of women rights, the tone of First World benevolence bothered me. Does anyone else see it too?A few examples include that while the article is entitled “The Women’s Crusade,” the subtitle is the first thing

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“Not home but… Home” – Bourdain on his No Reservations trip in VNI’m taking off for a month to Vietnam and am feeling more and more ambivalent. It scares me that French American Anthony Bourdain can articulate my feelings about returning home. I realized whatever reasons I made up for needing to go to Vietnam were just that— pretend. I wanted to fit in there as if the word immigration never

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Terras irradient“Let them give light to the world.”- Amherst College mottoI feel better this past month about the issues I'm going to raise below. But I wrote this because for the last year, I have been returning to a personal debate of what I should be doing and what I should be thinking of doing. Some of you know that I chose to not do Teach For America because I do not want to support the

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I love street art. I decided I’m going to try to post at least once a month photos that I take of Bay Area street art, guerilla art, graffiti, stencils, whatchamacallits. From huge bombs to small whimsical posters, it’s all fair game.Why street art? On an aesthetic level, graffiti is a branch of hip-hop. Graffiti is beautiful! I’m just calling it street art because of the methods, legality,

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After writing about Edward Said and how Americans view information from Iran, I wanted to conclude with what I often end up thinking about oppression and the challenges to overcoming it. Those with privilege ultimately build the box in which they operate that privilege, separating them from the oppressed. Even in cases when the privileged sincerely desires to struggle for liberation for the

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No doubt many of you have read about the death of Neda Agha Soltani, who was killed during Iranian protests over the country's recent election. (Like other bloggers, I will leave you the choice to go Youtube the graphic video yourself.) The blogosphere has led me to consider points of views I would not have otherwise and, after stumbling upon YouTube clips of cultural theorist Edward Said, I

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If you've been invited to this blog, I would dare to say that we have some level of mutual commitment to each other's life, love, and growth. So hello again, buddy.Earlier posts below were written during my semester abroad in the Dominican Republic. I want to deliver in this blog's continuation some documentation of my personal development, which hopefully advances rather than dragging in

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I’ve definitely begun 5 posts to write about this past semester. I want to sum up the experience. I want to explain what it was. Yet I truthfully don’t think I can because I still don’t know what it was.All I know is that I feel guilty when I buy things and I eat everything I put on my tray in Val. I am more critical of capitalism and my role in it. I can say some of the things I’ve seen and

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Obama- In case you live in a cave and didn’t realize this amazing man and amazing speech existed. "A More Perfect Union." You can find a video on Youtube and one his site.Tibet- I’m hoping for a boycotted 2008 China Olympics. If globalization is good for anything, it creates international pressure for human rights.I promised I would write about racism in the Dominican Republic. I waited until

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Surpises:1) Speaking Spanish to a Chinese girl who works in a Pico Pollo restaurant. So confusing.2) The existence of a place called Casa del Arte gives me hope. I went there a couple of nights ago. It’s a tiny art gallery and they have a space where they show cultural/educational movies. I saw a movie about a Cuban singer, Beni Moré last Tuesday. We’re going to a Fiesta de Palos tonight.3)

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Someone was quoted in the NYTimes last week saying that this is the most exciting Presidential election in a LONG time. At least for me, I know that I read my Times and Washington Post emails to stay updated on how Clinton and Obama are doing in the primaries.Obama's political narrativeAsian America and Obama:Obama's Asian Problem?Some response from RacialiousSpeaking of politics, the Dominican

p. diddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788411055294328708noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744663.post-81708692978425191842008-02-11T04:43:00.000-08:002009-06-22T16:56:00.014-07:00

I feel much better than I did when I wrote my last post. I was having a frustrating day, obviously...It drives me crazy to think about how this country is still colonized. There’s so much imported culture from the US: TV, music, clothes. Unsurprisingly the economy is dependent of foreign dollars. Cingular practically runs the country, except it’s called Orange here. Ideas about gender and

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Ok I'm going to tell the truth and hopefully I will find some peace with it. I've been holding back my complaints because I'm overly critical and think complaints are a sign of weakness...I know I will learn and become stronger from these things I don't like here but I need to vent how I feel right NOW.Things I hate.when people talk "asian" to me. wtf is wrong with you?! and there are

p. diddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788411055294328708noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744663.post-36279490452932400472008-02-05T04:38:00.000-08:002009-06-22T16:56:27.343-07:00

There's so much to write about I don't know where to start.1) Santiago is the host of the Caribbean Baseball Series. The Santiago team (Aguilas) are also national champs. Apparently Miguel Tejada played this season with the Aguilas! I saw him play!!! =]2) February is Carnaval!3) To return to stateside, I'm upset right now that the Asian Student Association is not listed as a sponsor of the

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I finally found a place where internet doesn't run at a snail' pace.... sooooo here's a quick, quick blog before class....Some strains of a huge blog debate on gender and race in the presidential race and generally as a question of social change. Something to think about. I'll write about gender and race in the DR some other time, I promise.NYT Gloria Steinem's article: "Women are Never Front

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RIP Jenny Kim...I think that's it for today.

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9 de enero del 2008So here I am in the library of Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, or PUCMM, pronounced "puca-mime-a." It's the university for rich kids, but about 30% of their kids are on financial aid and they have tons of Haitian students. Reminds you of anywhere? haha Except this school is much prettier. It's like having class in a rainforrest.Man, I'm spelling things

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testing

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