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Published in Human Parts

·Apr 3

Disowning My (Korean) Mother’s Unhappiness

For most of my life, I have carried my mother’s unhappiness, sloshing in an aged brown vat atop a rolled towel on my head, the way old ladies do in the countryside in Korea. It was always threatening to topple or overflow, contaminating me, no matter how carefully I maneuvered…

Korean American

21 min read

Disowning My (Korean) Mother’s Unhappiness
Disowning My (Korean) Mother’s Unhappiness

Published in #StopAsianHate

·Updated Jul 20, 2021

From the Other Side of Tolerance

During the pandemic, people had to make decisions about who was worth risking spending time with. We rarely made the cut. — The day I realized we need to move out of our San Diego home, I ordered four new pieces of furniture. Not little decorative stools or night stands that you can stack on top of boxes, but four solid wood cabinets that would require two or three movers to carry…

Asian American

9 min read

From the Other Side of Tolerance
From the Other Side of Tolerance

Feb 22, 2021

Minari’s Daring Hope

[Spoiler Alert] Years ago, one of my Korean-American friends told me how exasperated she was with Korean-American stories. “They’re so depressing. They’re always about loss. What are we supposed to do with all that sadness?” It’s almost as if writer/director Lee Issac Chung were eavesdropping on our conversation when he…

Minari

7 min read

Minari’s Daring Hope
Minari’s Daring Hope

Published in The Shadow

·Feb 5, 2021

The Making of Asian-American Identities

Jay Caspian Kang’s recent New York Times Magazine feature on Steven Yeun is not really a story about Steven Yeun. It is an exploration — through the medium of a famous body — of what it means to be an Asian-American in the United States. …

Asian American

8 min read

The Making of Asian-American Identities
The Making of Asian-American Identities

Jul 30, 2020

The Idea of Racism Is a Ruse

Let’s talk about one case of abduction. One morning in South Lake Tahoe in 1991, 11 year old Jaycee Dugard was abducted by Richard Garrido as she walked to her school bus stop. For 18 years, she was kept in Garrido’s backyard as a sex slave and forced to have…

Racism

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The Idea of Racism Is a Ruse
The Idea of Racism Is a Ruse

Jul 9, 2020

Must Asian-Americans Cast Their Stones at Tou Thao?

In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests, Asian-American writers and activists have flocked to urge fellow Asian-Americans to speak up in support of Black Lives Matter. Many argue that Tou Thao, an Asian-American officer who stood guard while Derek Chauvin suffocated and killed George Floyd, symbolizes Asian-Americans’ silence…

Asian American

12 min read

Must Asian-Americans Cast Their Stones at Tou Thao?
Must Asian-Americans Cast Their Stones at Tou Thao?
Shinyung Oh

Shinyung Oh

Former lawyer, associate marriage & family therapist, www.capriciousbubbles.com

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