Learning to groom my hair without fuss, with full shrinkage on vacation, is a small but vain victory of self-love in a world where Black women’s lives are so thoroughly undervalued.
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Call Me By My Names: A Story of Shame, Trauma, and Liberation in a Chinese Name
For twenty-two years I had been conditioned to regard my Chinese identity—starting with my name—as a source of embarrassment and inadequacy.
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