A case for studying abroad
Off the Beat
To avoid becoming that-one-friend-who-won’t-shut-up-about-her-semester-abroad, I am going to talk about it once in this article.
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Planning ahead
Off the Beat
I hadn’t planned for these moments, but they were just as valuable as the things I’d accounted for in my planner — if not more so.
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Room to room to room
Off the Beat
I came across a room that’s become a great match for me: a bed that’s just the right size, a series of well-placed posters that populate my walls.
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Stories we tell
Off the Beat
I was supposed to follow him. But just as Harrison started to crawl through the gap, someone hollered. The grown-ups were after us.
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Legally blonde: Brunette remix
Off the Beat
Changing my hair was the knee-jerk reaction I had to heartbreak. I didn’t go through with it — I applied to law school instead.
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Acknowledging my family’s support
Muscle Memories
Now that I am older, I can more easily understand how helpless they must have felt in not being able to find a definitive cure. They offered their emotional support throughout my medical journey and gave me the ability to try a variety of treatment options.
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Beyond the binary: Bathrooms must be inclusive of transgender communities
No matter if I feel that I made the right evaluation of which bathroom I belong in at the end of the day, I will never know if I made the right choice. I feel frustrated when people say, “just use the bathroom that most aligns with your gender identity,” because there is no binary cisgender space I can safely occupy. It doesn’t matter to me if I am in the right bathroom because the strangers around me are the final judgment of my choice.
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A big goodbye
In My Size
In the future, I will continue writing in order to inspire myself and others. Writing about my curves is still hard at times because I have to expose the parts of my body that I have spent most of my life hating, but overall, I love it.
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God’s plan
Sex on Tuesday
I thought about how I was taught that our outcomes were predetermined by a higher power. I realized that God did not have a map of my life. Rather, God’s plan was to allow me to regain agency in my life.
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Recognizing my white privilege
The Half of It
As I unpack the implications of doing racial justice work as a white-passing womxn, I realize that recognizing my white privilege does not invalidate my identity as a Chinese womxn and a person of color.
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