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Apr 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Today I learned that my Viet mother collapsed in a Lowe’s parking lot and laid there with broken ribs for more than an hour. No one helped.
It’a hard naming my thoughts about being a Southeast Asian woman in this newly visible, not-new “#StopAsianHate“ conversation. A thread🧵:
i don’t often share so personally w folks like this. um terrifying. how do y’all do this?! would love to hear if anything resonates w you or sits with you. if i don’t change my mind and delete this 😳
Apr 9, 2021 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
Last night, I couldn’t sleep. The other day my mom texted me that she’d fallen, fractured her ribs but otherwise okay. I texted, checked in, felt sad but otherwise didn’t think too much based on what she shared. Today, I heard the rest.
She had donated blood & ran errands. Loading her truck w gardening soil, suddenly she found herself flat on the hot asphalt in a Lowe’s parking lot.
