I’ve been toying with this idea of a while now, then wrote a quick rough draft, saved it because it didn’t feel right posting in the middle of protests & looting, then ultimately decided that I wanted to give myself and others a respite from the non-stop footage of burning buildings, police thuggery, and sweeping protests. And it’s with that perspective in mind that I’ve published the first—of what I hope will be many—Twitter Personal Essays called “Cloud in Trousers.”
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2nd Piece Accepted in 2018
Today, I got the best kind of email from an editor at Longreads and learned that I’d sold an essay of mine from my experimental memoir, DREAM POP ORIGAMI. This is a major victory for me . . .
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6th Piece Accepted in 2016
Today I got an email telling me that my personal essay, "When Words Make You Real," was accepted in the mixed-race anthology The Beiging of America, which is awesome. I'm happy, proud even, to be part of such a groundbreaking but also crucial anthology exploring what it means to be mixed race (in my case, hapa) in America.
Personal Essay Published on the Good Men Project
My newest essay about polymorphous masculinity, boyhood, Diasporic alienation, Asian Illegibility, feminism, and self-belief is now live at the Good Men Project.