May We Please Just Date Without Hate?

There’s a picture of us meeting in person for the first time on the second floor of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, taken via self-timer on Snapchat. It was September 2020. You can sense the awkward nervousness we felt, with his arm carefully placed behind my lower back and me giving the camera a big […]

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Hate Crimes and Pandemic Lead More Asian Americans to Seek Therapy

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, life was not as easy as it looked for Julian Sarafian. He was the valedictorian of his high school, a White House intern and a Harvard Law School graduate, but he was also in a yearslong battle with anxiety. Then, in November of last year, he came down with symptoms […]

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In a Role Reversal, Asian-Americans Aim to Protect Their Parents From Hate

However, her parents would never admit that she might have influenced their opinion. “The trick is making them think it was their idea,” she said. “If you have the conversation in small, different ways, over time they start to read the news through the lens you provide them, and they come to their own conclusion.” […]

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Talking to Children About Anti-Asian Bias

My daughter was the only kid who didn’t have a separate Korean name when we signed her up for Korean classes three years ago. The blank space on the registration form looked at me, as if to say we’d forgotten something as parents. When she was born in the United States in 2012, my spouse […]

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