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A Death Moratorium
In the last two years I’ve lost people I know, some more intimately than others. It had been difficult moving from grieving to feeling grateful to be alive and able to enjoy a birthday cake with my daughter or bond … Continue reading
Writing Femme
I wrote this piece for the 2008 Femme Conference that happened in Chicago, where I was invited to make a presentation. I recently found it on Dropbox while looking for old plays that I hope to revisit. It’s really interesting … Continue reading
Noemi
Why do we love knowing the pain that comes?I pondered this as I listened and felt the ache of a broken-hearted friend. I remember pondering this in middle school. Twelve and besotted. A girl with curls and a mean spike. … Continue reading
Reading tonight!! August 8, 7pm CST
Please click on the link below! Please be mindful of your time zone đâ¤ď¸ https://youtube.com/channel/UCjPamgCSAffKyPVUIPxUVhg
Bus Ride
Bus ride When I was little, members of my family would take me on these endless bus rides. Mostly my grandpa, or apo, as strangers and family alike called him. I remember how comforting, as if I am being cradled … Continue reading
Midnight Rumination
The promise of rain makes my body ache. Barometric drop. Barometric rise. Humidity that seeps into my skin and wraps my joints in a pin-studded elastic. It’s like a punishment each time. Trapped in a storybook nightmare with no one … Continue reading
Dog Food
Sometimes I want to mix in dog food with your food saute it in garlic and onion pour in eggs beaten in milk and cream cheese and voila! Gourmet dish fit for kings and queens who send cake thieves to … Continue reading
Please take a day off and call your senators
This just cannot go on Canât keep apologizing for my meekness I want to stop looking over my Asian shoulders when I walk at night I canât keep worrying about my friend when sheâs a few minutes late from putting … Continue reading
Happy International Womenâs Day!
On this day of reckoning, when women all over the world should be celebrated and uplifted, when we commemorate the sacrifices of the women who came and fought injustice before us, I just want to sleep! Iâve been alternating between … Continue reading
If I die tomorrow (Day 6)
Please make a fucking fuss I traveled halfway around the world to be something You will not not cry as if my dying means nothing Once I thought I was Nothing I thought I could disappear and no one would … Continue reading
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