Photo: Miya’s grandfather (Kim’s father) and others at the funeral for her great-uncle in the Gila River Butte “Relocation Center” Internment Camp, Arizona, shortly after his death on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23, 1944
Text: nidoto nai yoni (“let it not happen again”)
Photo: Iris’s family
Quote: “without community, there is no liberation” —Audre Lorde
Photo: Hands of a Chinese garment worker in San Francisco. “My mom was a seamstress, and I grew up in the Excelsior District, Chinatown, and in the factories she worked in when I was a kid.”
Text: immigrant hustle
Photo: Celebrating 2021 Commencement with friends. ”As college graduates we are the next adults in line, and I feel a lot of hope that in the spaces we end up in we will challenge existing structures to be more inclusive.”
Text: Isang bagsak (“If one falls, we all fall”). “This phrase originated from Larry Itliong during the United Farm Workers movement and remains today as a symbol of solidarity and unity.”
Photo: Cantonese hot pot. ”Food has been such a fun way to connect with friends and family during the pandemic and to honor our family and cultural history. It also reminds me of the idea of food as protest or counter-narrative against racism.”
Text: “I’ve been thinking about this saying a lot. I think it’s applicable to so many things going on in the world right now—and personally, too.”
Photo: “It’s just really nostalgic since it’s picturing multiple generations of my family from when I was young. I saw it sitting in my aunt’s house last month on the day of my grandmother’s funeral so it just seemed like a fitting one.”
Text: “I read Joy Luck Club when I was very young—actually randomly picked up secondhand copy in Taiwan when I was like twelve. The stories of the mothers and the daughters weren’t very similar to my family, but the idea of having to listen to your family while also staying true to yourself resonated with me.”
Photo: Tiger in third grade not long after emigrating to the United States from Beijing in 2007
Text: reminding myself that what i am is enough