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Kelly Yang
@kellyyanghk
#1 NYT bestselling author of NEW FROM HERE, the FRONT DESK series, YES WE WILL, PARACHUTES, PRIVATE LABEL | 2019 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
May 14, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Recently, my alma mater Harvard Law School asked for a donation for my 15th reunion, a class I’ll always share with the guy who sexually assaulted me when I was a teenager and completely got away with it. THREAD It’s a part of my life that I wanted to keep buried forever because it filled me with such shame, not just the fact that I was sexually assaulted, but the fact that the faculty of Harvard Law School actually voted on whether to take away my degree for speaking up about it.
Apr 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I am fighting the daily fear that the book that took me 17 years to find the courage to write will fall into the abyss of forgotten stories. I’m not alone in feeling this way, but what’s different for me is it’s tinged with a racial undercurrent that runs deep. My mom, the other day, said to me, “Maybe it’s just not a good time for Asian Americans & our stories. People don’t seem to like us very much right now.” When she said that, I cried. I cried for the 10 yr old me who stood in front of the mirror w a banana peel draped over my hair