Tag: halfie stuff

  • #WeNeedDiverseBooks (and diverse everything else too)

    Saw rerun of Bewitched. Recalled childhood kinship w Tabitha bc she was halfie too. Witch, not Asian, but still. <- #WeNeedDiverseEverything — Kristan Hoffman (@kristanhoffman) May 1, 2014 In case you missed it, the YA community is spearheading a charge for increased diversity in contemporary literature. The #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign is amazing, and you can find…

  • Being different doesn’t have to mean being divided

    "Only through collecting a whole mosaic of narratives can we begin to understand everyone in a meaningful way." <3 http://t.co/iEXQ6KpTb6 — DiversifYA (@_DiversifYA) March 13, 2014 Today I’m over at DiversifYA talking about my experiences as a halfie, as well as my advice on how to write diverse characters. I’d love for you to check…

  • Clothes for an empress

    1. I duck into a circular rack of clothing, a giddy smile on my face. Soon Mommy will notice that I am not by her side. She will, at least for a moment, panic. She will think that I have wandered off and gotten lost, or maybe even been kidnapped. But then Mommy will come…

  • Michelle Kwan and the importance of mirrors

    They say that when you’re a child, the world is a mirror. What you see becomes part of your identity, just like a reflection. I don’t think I can explain how meaningful it was to be a half-Asian girl growing up in the Michelle Kwan era. Yes, there was Kristi Yamaguchi before that, and yes,…

  • Stuff worth reading

    Veronica Roth’s speech at Book Expo America 2013: Every writer I know is also here to learn — about spaceships and fall-out shelters and international abduction and horitculture and language and everything. Everything else, everything that makes this world strange and rich and mysterious and ugly and beautiful. Humility in reading and in writing really…