Michelle Zauner’s recent story “Crying in H Mart” has been making rounds among my facebook friends. If you haven’t read it yet, you really should; it’s a beautiful piece about how she reconnects to the Korean half of her heritage (after her Korean mother and aunt passed away) by visiting the aforementioned Asian-American mall/grocery stores. The article is a heartfelt case which personalizes some of the challenges faced by Asian-Americans in asserting their identity and maintaining connections to their culture. It was particularly poignant to me as a half-Korean with a white-passing English name and also as someone who will soon have to navigate the complicated fallout from coming out to their interracial parents.
The beautiful children of narcissistic parents
Whenever I look up stories about children who were raised by narcissists, the most common narrative is how parents acted like children, making children…