A lifetime that never was now lives in me. I never had a Korean Umma make comfort food for me. She never came to my side to make me Tteokbokki. It didn’t come to me. Not with extra rice cakes. Not with melted cheese. When I was 20 something I had it and later in my early 30s I…

Artwork by Cristina Rago, “Liberated” This is the body that came to America and struggled in a lily white world. This is the body that contains the soul which carries residual trauma of her birth mother. This is the body that feels language in her bones as memory and pain…

White Woman Privileges in Interracial Friendship Whenever I pick up my son at school, his friend’s mom and I make it a point to find one another. We’re not just friends because our kids go to school together. We have been good friends for years, and were even pregnant together…

I would ask if it was a joke, but … I mean, what’s the point. Grand Decisions for a grand jury. I guess. Oh, how I wish I was a fly on the wall for the grand jury hearing that decided to indict Trump for allegedly paying hush money to a porn star he allegedly had sex with. Of all the shit Trump has done, this is how he’s going out? Background Racist? Trying…

Womxn of color, trans womxn, immigrant womxn in sex work want to live. What’s done in the dark will come to the Light. The two year anniversary of Atlanta Spa Shootings is today. At this time, I was still working in clubs on and off. To work that year after the shootings tried my nerves. …

Excuse me while I’m on a soapbox for a second. I believe there is inequity in the white collar office world as there is in blue collar jobs and under the table work too. There is inequity because we as a nation are frameworked on a faulty and racist, oppressive system. However. I just need to point out that tale…

Walking alongside one another as we grow and develop is the power of sisterhood. I saw some of the most important women in my life tonight at our annual university’s Womxn’s Summit. My former boss was there and asked how I was doing, how my partner was doing. She has really seen me go through some things with the men in my life, and…

Becoming is never a finished thing. — Becoming is never a finished thing. I learned this the hour I was disowned. It was just for a moment. Fleeting, even, if you will. But in the moment of disappointment, sparks of raging judgment flew about With such conviction, to a young woman like me. I knew my whole…

Texas House Bill 1266 moves to Committee and flaunts anti-drag legislation at its most odd and peculiar indeed Why are there now laws attempting to ban public drag shows and those who would like to express themselves publicly in drag but still not laws banning guns in our country? The lawmakers say it is to protect children. But the number one cause of children’s deaths in the US…