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Sep 26, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Let me tell you, I am declaring being done w/ the shame spiral & apologizing for my #AsianAmerican identity. There's a lot of work to do as a community, but we can't do that work, if we can't acknowledge that shame is part of white supremacy that keeps us in our place (thread) 1/
First, I want to shout out Black feminist & linguistic scholars, including the fantastic @BlackGazePod convo w/ Dr. @aprilbakerbell. @DrPorcher & @dr_s_bertrand, your unapologetic stance that Blackness will save Black people reminds me to stand in my own truth 2/
Okay, and also shout out to the fantastic essay by @poetpedagogue that reminds me that we cannot abolish systems that promise us opportunity if we play by the rules until we conquer our own internalized oppressive mindset 3/
So here's the thing, like many #AsianAmericans, I have made choices, my parents & ancestors made choices. For me, those choices have been rooted in assimilation for survival bc they thought it was the best option 4/
I am making different choices for myself & my own children, to embrace who we are and reclaim our complicated identities as #AsianAmerican as #TaiwaneseAmerican, as descendent from Han colonizers of Taiwanese indigenous people 5/
As people who have made choices or had choices made for us that separated us from linguistic identities that themselves were cloaked in language and cultural oppressions that we don't know, but are our histories 6/
But I am not ashamed. Part of humanizing ourselves & others is the true belief that people do the best they can w/ what they have & that people, even the best of them, have human moments. When we know better, we must do better, but sometimes even then, we stumble 7/
Now, what there is for me to do, is the hard work of reclamation, of building community from an insider-outsider space, of listening/ learning/ seeking/ speaking, not from a space of shame, but from one of power, of visibility w/o performance 8/
Last thank you to @DrK_WhiteSmith for reminding me that we can be responsible for our actions w/o apologizing for ourselves. #Nomoreapologies for my existence. I will own my mistakes & my humanity, but I refuse to apologize for who I am. /end

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Update: I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a message from my sister. As expected, it’s been absolutely brutal. They shot into her house. And are in her street. The military is shooting randomly at any sign of life, trying to scare people into the streets 1/
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I am finally watching/listening to this week's @BlackGazePod conversation w/ Dr. @aprilbakerbell. From the intro, the idea of internalizing linguistic oppression. Whew! Thank you, @DrPorcher & @dr_s_bertrand for this!
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Sep 24, 2020
Ironically, my TEDx talk on humanizing pedagogies comes out on a day when I had a real human moment. Sometimes we let our frustrations get the best of us & make assumptions about people that we need to keep to ourselves, but let slip out. 1/
In those most human of moments, when we are not at our best, we need to take responsibility for our words and actions, then show grace to ourselves. Grace doesn't make the words go away or excuse the impact, but continuing to stew doesn't help either. 2/
I know that I am very human, even as I conquer my inner desire for perfection. My wise dean @DrK_WhiteSmith reminded me today that we all stumble & sometimes, it takes a minute to recover, but we will not fall, because we have community to lift us up. 3/
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Y'all do not understand how much I missed @BlackGazePod! 1/3 of the way through Episode 1 of Season 2 -- Protect Black Womxn. @dr_s_bertrand & @DrPorcher bringing it again! Also, shout out to @MauricePorcher for the sound effects. The claps though 👏👏👏 1/
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Okay, so I had thought I’d live tweet read @mdawriter’s Becoming a Teacher but the writing is so good, I am just letting myself be carried away by the story of Ms. Hall through which so much about the teaching journey can be learned 1/
That being said, I am tweeting this quote from p. 75, “Preparation and self-education underlie all good teaching. It is a cycle of forward thinking that never really stops.” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Amen. 2/
Also, so many thanks to @laquisha_hall for opening her practice to @mdawriter so that we could all learn and have this gift of a book to support others who are becoming teachers 3/
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