“I lost everything, except the things I had stored at my parents house in the city. I didn't know how to process the loss. On one hand I felt incredibly blessed to be alive. I was literally seconds away from losing my life and…”
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“I am a Muslim woman in America. I think that’s a charged political statement but not as charged of a political statement as it is that my sister recently began wearing a Hijab. I can’t remember 9/11 - but I can remember…”
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“My mom worked and developed her career in the second wave, she’s more in the school of ‘you have to act like a man to be taken seriously.’ Recently, I’ve felt that women are moving more toward a positive reclamation of…”
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“I grew up in a Chinese-American-Jewish Household where my mother was starting her own business and my father was a school teacher. Sometimes I felt like a bridge between east and the west…”
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“One of the boyfriends my mom had was extra horrible. But my experience of being sexually assaulted and watching my mom’s experiences with men made me believe that women are really strong….”
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“I find myself being fetishized by men a lot. I used to take a lot of pride in the fact that people would look at me and say, ‘You’re so exotic, where are you from?’ In a way, I thought it made me interesting…”
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