Body of Work

Bree Yoo Sun Jeong, 정유선
3 min readMay 28, 2021

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 all at once.

This is the body that was district floor exercise champion and JV…

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Bree Yoo Sun Jeong, 정유선

I was formerly the young mother who leaned into destiny. These days I'm young-ish. I write about race, motherhood, transracial adoption, and hood feminism.