- English Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family moved to a more affluent white neighbourhood, I started to see myself as 'other', this amorphous category. I didn't even know what 'not other' was, but I knew I wasn't it; I wasn't what was normal.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.
- Behave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Lena Dunham, the public figure, is - I hate the word 'brand,' but I'm going to use it - it's such a brand that is so tethered to her public persona and to 'Girls', but also this progressive politics that she's been more vocal about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.
- Read
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and also read in one sitting.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much more difficult to be hopeful and to dream extravagantly.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy away from complexity and nuance.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often wonder if my being a fairly small Asian woman with a high-pitched quietish voice plays a role in how often men feel entitled to come up to me and tell me, 'You have this doll act,' or whatever.
- Okay
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020