My husband is sometimes worried that I'm too proud and outspoken, and that it will get me in trouble. But he just texted and told me he read my new piece on why BLM matters for Chinese Americans, and "haters gonna hate", and I love him so much right now. https://twitter.com/ourobororoboruo/status/1271546176760942592 As Black Lives Matter protests rage across the United States and across the world, a fierce debate has erupted within the Chinese diaspora community thanks in no small part to Yale undergraduate student Eileen Huang’s passionate open letter to the community. While her call for solidarity between Black and Chinese people in America drew admiration across generations, there are also critics aplenty who find her descriptions of the rampant, normalized anti-Blackness within the community to be unfounded and unfair.
When I was 15, I was chased through a mall by police who were yelling “Stop thief!” I had thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise on me. I was caught, booked, sentenced to 6 months of probation, required to see a parole officer weekly. I was never even handcuffed. THREAD: https://twitter.com/kristavernoff/status/1272561179462754304