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元宵节, also known as the Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the Lunar calendar. It is the last day of CNY and when the first full moon of the lunar year can be seen. Eating Tang Yuan, whether it is sweet or savory, is a tradition. Tang yuan can come in various forms, this one has nothing inside and is cooked in pork radish soup with onions and wood ear mushrooms.
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Been having a headache all week so I made some chicken porridge. Congee is one of my favorite things to eat because it warms my soul, but I haven't mastered how Cantonese restaurants make it (which takes hours) so mine usually turns out like porridge 🤔 Scallions are a must for me and the orange shreds on top is "pork floss" which is something many Chinese kids grew up eating!
Both oral history and love story, Stories from My Parents is a compilation of stories told by ethnically Chinese students at Wellesley College about how dias...
Stories From My Parents spans the stories of students who were either born in or grew up mostly in the US, as either adoptees or part of families immigrating via Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China (Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei Provinces); families who came for economic opportunity, or to escape war; journeys that have involved long visa waiting periods, illegal border crossings, and international adoption agencies. Students tell stories from their parents as well as their personal journeys struggling with cultural identity, generational trauma, and family history. And above all, it's the story of gratitude for our families and the oceans and mountains they've surmounted to raise us.
A film by Tina Xu '17 and Janjan Sun '19, featuring the stories Meredith Clark '17, Cordelia Zhong '17, Judy Zhang '17, Elisa Wang '18, Catrina Sun-Tan '18, Bang Nhan '20, Phung Ninh '20.
First time my baking didn't end in a disaster. Many more 🍌 🍞 to come in the future 😋
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…Wellesley College alumnae records reported in 1964 that the number of African-American alumnae who had earned graduate and professional degrees was ‘especially striking’ and far exceeded that of the college population as a whole. In contrast to many of their white classmates, who often married and stopped working outside the home, the early Seven Sisters’ black graduates overwhelmingly both married and maintained careers.
Linda M. Perkins, from “The African American Female Elite: The Early History of African American Women in the Seven Sister Colleges, 1880-1960.” (via vintagesevensisters)
My book, Until I Learned What It Meant is still available for purchase at the Where Are You Press etsy shop!
Some people have said some nice (and not-so-nice things) about it here.
Yeah, all these poems feel a lil old to me now, but what do you know, I’m still learning
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A woman of color’s self-love is political and radical, and it is unsettling for the status quo because she is choosing bravely to dismantle the narratives of racist aesthetics against her. So when people bully a girl of color for being content and satisfied with her appearance - a reality that is subjected to racist, sexist slurs in cosmetic industries - and when they tell her to be “humble” which is normative code for “Nah, you’re not special, you’re not light and delicate in a Eurocentric way” then she has every right to chew their hearts and spit them out. A non-white girl’s self-love is revolutionary and anyone trying to water it down needs to back right off.
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Welcome to 103 Hudson Street, a beaten red brick row house on the southeast edge of Chinatown. Just a toss away from the I-93 South lane, two of the apartments have wooden planks crudely fixed in the windows; another two have signs that say, “We Shall Not Be Moved.”
If you lived here, you’d be homeless by now.
Such is the apparent reality for residents of 103 Hudson, which was sold to a private real estate investor last week. Following years of apparently horrid conditions—tenants report that issues ranging from vermin to inadequate heat went unaddressed—they’re now being harassed and pushed out.
With the new owners forcing everybody to relocate to hotels while they do renovations, this afternoon Hudson Street residents, along with about 20 of their friends and allies, rallied to say they refuse to leave. While drivers crept by on the overpass hoping to get home before the blizzard, the Chinatown families said they hope to even have a home when the snow wraps on Wednesday, the deadline for them to be packed and ready to go.
According to supporting housing rights groups, including the Chinese Progressive Association which organized the action, it’s not enough to move tenants into other parts of the city. Even if the relocation is only temporary, which probably isn’t the case since the investor who bought their place has another purchase pending for the neighboring row house.
“I live in Chinatown, I work in Chinatown, I shop in Chinatown,” one resident, Yan Nong Yu, said through an interpreter. The woman fought back tears explaining how her entire world exists within the shrinking Chinatown perimeter, her frozen hand holding a sheet of paper with prepared remarks. “It took 150 years to build Chinatown into what it is today.” Her neighbor jumped in: “We came here when it wasn’t desirable. Before the tourists. Before the developers.”
That was a long time ago. Nowadays there’s development on all sides; at a close distance, the stunning new Ink Block, located on the old Boston Herald property, has a banner advertising new apartments. Behind them is the building where the Dig is located, which is beside another high-end multi-use buildout.
Though some new towers stick their heads out of the skyline, a lot of coming demolition in the chic condominium vortex surfacing on both sides of the Mass Pike here is rather hidden. At least for the time being. On the southbound drive home tonight, commuters couldn’t even see the residents of 103 Hudson protesting.
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"When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.”
Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces
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Dim Sum + Striver's Row
I can't believe I've been out all day for literally 12 hours from 11:30am to 11:30pm. I went to get dim sum this morning at Asian Jewels Restaurant in Flushing with a few people from Wellesley. Unfortunately, there isn't a good dim sum restaurant near my home. But it's okay. I got my filling today :3
Afterwards, a few of us hung out at New World Mall (aka the awesome place that makes me feel like I'm in China because there are 15-20 food stalls next to each other). We got hot KungFu Bubble Tea which was disappointing because the bubbles were too mushy but we got them for free LOL. It was $4.25 and I gave the cashier a 20 bill and she gave me $20.75 back. We also got the shaved ice below. It doesn't look that appetizing but it was pretty good (including all the artificial stuff from the canned sweets). They really need to have a good shaved ice place in Flushing. Because besides the stall where were got the shaved ice below, the only other place in New World Mall sells snow shaved ice. I would MUCH prefer the texture of shaved ice.
I met up with Bernie at 5:30pm to get dinner before we headed over to Striver's Row Spoken Word event at this place in West Village. It was kinda bourgeois and wasn't that great to be honest. The first woman was great but then the second act came on and it was this guy who started singing (but really, he was just moaning) and sexualizing women. It made me feel uncomfortable. They didn't even give a trigger warning in the beginning of the event! Note to self: don't pay more than $10+ for a spoken word event because spoken word, like Bernie said, belongs to the common people and we shouldn't have to pay that much to watch it at a fancy venue.
We walked around West Village after and got NY's "best" $1 pizza LOL. They always say theirs is the best. Then went into McDonalds to chill after we couldn't find the fried oreo place.
P.S. I've been trying to sell this beautiful pair of pumps I bought two years ago, which I have only worn once because I put them away for "special occasions." Then on that special day, I realized that I cannot ever wear hears this high in NYC. Besides my irrational fear of falling into the subway tracks because of them, I just cannot wear heels. That's right. I accepted that fact. Anyways, it's so funny how after posting the pic on Wellesley's FB's free and for sale group, a bunch of people encouraged me to conquer these. Look at these beauties. Hope they find a good owner who can do them justice.
Pio Pio + If/Then
My friends and I decided to have a girl's night out before we all left for school so we decided to visit a Peruvian restaurant in Hell's Kitchen and then head to watch If/Then.
We met for dinner at Pio Pio and at first I couldn't find it because the restaurant sign was etched in silver along the wall and the front of the restaurant was glass and completely dark so I easily walked passed it two times. When we walked in, we were brought to the basement floor and I was so surprised to see how big the place was and how intimate it looked! I wish I took pictures but I felt like I was entering a secret society because of atmosphere of the restaurant.
We bought tickets to see If/Then on Broadway and were lucky to get discount tickets. When we got to the seating area, the staff told us that we could sit closer to the stage since they were filling it by rows so we scored a nice front mezz center seat. Overall, I liked it but then again it's my first broadway show and I didn't know what to expect. Hearing Idina sing live was amazing and I really liked Pearl Sun, who was the understudy for Kate.
I have a minor headache just because I've been feeling kind of groggy all day and then going out in the freezing cold didn't help. I'll leave this post short.
Even my silence is politicalized. Often, I refuse to even highlight or engage in topics/issues/stories that are about terrorism—because it’s a code word for Muslim and Islamophobia—just as crime and being ‘tough on crime’ is a code word for being against the civil rights of African Americans. But seeing all the Muslims on my news feed highlight and apologize for the French bombing —again and again and again—I feel I have to say something as a Muslim: I refuse to apologize. As an American paying taxes shouldn’t I apologize more for drones bombing schools full of children than one white man’s death? What does it say that our traditional media is encouraging our social media’s reaction: #killallmuslims while refusing to cover the #NAACPbombing, or refusing to highlight what a racist publication it was contributing to scapegoating of Muslims and immigrants in France and inciting the rise of fascism, in a time of economic crises— veiling bigotry behind the sanctified untouchable label of “satire”. This isn’t simply about religion and crazed fanatics but that French colonialism and its effects are still alive for many people [Algeria won independence in 1962]. It’s also worth to point out much of the current “War on Terror” programs of torture and counterinsurgency are taken directly from the French occupation. I think it’s disgusting we Muslims are only vocal about when Muslims kill white people. It shows we are colonized in the mind. We have internalized this collective responsibility. We are allowing others to define and police us without even realizing it. It shows we are more concerned with how the powerful and prejudiced white man views us more than we are dedicated to justice.
Ilana Alazzeh (via immigrantstories)
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放假回到了家里 going home for the holiday break 感觉屋子有点挤 the room feels cramped 全特么的都是亲戚 damn relatives everywhere 七大姑和八大姨 random ass relatives 明明关系不咋滴 we ain’t even close 总要逮你问上几句 but ya’ll be asking 小的时候他们总要关心我学习 when i was young it’s how my grades were 问我期末考试咋样班级排第几 my finals standing in class 我说我是全班前五 他说得努力 i say i’m number five in class, you tell me better study harder 我的儿子年级第二 你吹牛逼 and boast your son’s number two in the entire grade 从来就没消啊消停过 it never settles down 听得烦躁还不能说 so fed up with listening to this shit but can’t say nothing 你家的媳妇漂亮儿子钱多 your daughter in law’s beautiful your son’s loaded 要不要给你广播 need me to broadcast it 播播播播播 broadcast broadcast broadcast 从来就没消啊消停过 it never settles down 关你啥事问这么多 you keep asking so much what’s it to you 混得好混的搓有没有老婆 how you doing got a wife yet 你问了又能做什么 why you ask so much 不能待在家里面 can’t stay at home 相亲对象天天见 got to go on arranged dates 没一个能看得上眼 no matches found 结婚也没好一点 it don’t get better after you get married 父母还在碎碎念 everyday your parents asking 啥时候怀定个时间 when you having kids 生了宝宝又要问你奶粉多少钱and then you have kids and people ask you how much is milk formula 长大一点又要问你哪个幼儿园 then it’s what kindergarden to apply to 上了小学逢年过节亲朋来相见 then it’s preschool and relatives start asking 又要问你考得咋样 昨日重现 how’d your kids do on finals 从来就没消啊消停过 it never settles down 听得烦躁还不能说 so fed up with listening to this crap but can’t say anything 你家的媳妇漂亮儿子钱多 your daughter in law’s beautiful and your son’s loaded 要不要给你广播 need me to broadcast it for you 播播播播播 broadcast broadcast broadcast 从来就没消啊消停过 it never settles down 关你啥事问这么多 why you keep asking so much what’s it to you 混得好混的搓有没有老婆 how you been got a wife yet 你问了又能做什么 what’s it to you 从来就没消啊消停过 it never settles down 今年咱别没话找话说 can we skip the useless banter this year 你家的家庭幸福日子好过 your family’s doing great 别人家也差不多 other family’s doing similar less or more so 多多多多多 more so more so more so 从来就没消啊消停过it never settles down 今年咱就挑点别的说 can’t we talk about something else 达沃斯欧佩克埃博拉联合国 Davos, OPEC, ebola, UN 咱聊了又能做什么 what can you do talking about it
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"After I finish my shift at the bakery, I start my shift at Starbucks. I work 95 hours per week at three different jobs. One of my sons graduated from Yale, and I have two more children in college. And when they finish, I want to go to college too. I want to be a Big Boss. I’m a boss at the bakery right now, but just a little boss. I want to be a Big Boss."
