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My local art council invited me to have a solo gallery show! I displayed my cat and capybara work and had a lovely opening. It felt so surreal seeing my art on the walls!
Have you ever seen your hard work out in the world?
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Millbrae is the center of recent mainland Chinese migration to the Bay Area. It has a big lunar new year event today. Streets are PACKED
People dressed up in traditional garb.
Nice to see a plurality of different new year celebrations. A lot of overlaps but some differences.
For example, most Chinese people eat sweet tangyuan for the 15th day of the lunar new year but the local SF Toishanese folks do it savory.
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Not lost on me that as birthright citizenship is being challenged today, it was because of Wong Kim Ark that we have it at all.
It’s AANHPI month, which we are celebrating at work. I complain these terms are arbitrary (and they are) but also they think we are all the same anyway.
While I can’t do a ton about national legislation, I can do a lot in my community. As an East Asian person, making space for South, Southeast and other Asians and NH (Native Hawaiian) and PI (Pacific Islander) people is absolutely what I want to do. I’m helping to organize some activities at work that spotlight other cultures in our alphabet soup.
Also RIP Henry Fuhrmann, whose exhortation to drop the hyphen in Asian-American vastly expanded and included people who can consider themselves Asian American. Undocumented people. People who don’t yet have citizenship, or won’t, or can’t.
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🌏 🗾 Happy #AAPI Heritage Month (we're midway thru, but whatevs) 🤣 #WatchPartyAlert
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I've read this book - highly recommended! 😁
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I'm all about COZY, and have an extensive collection of onesies and robes to lounge in! I love translating that warm and fuzzy feeling in my artwork!
What's your favorite way to get cozy?
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During lockdown, we raised #butterflies and it was amazing! Seeing new life emerge brought beauty to a quiet time. It was a reminder that #nature sparks wonder even at home.
Have you ever raised a pet or plant that surprised you?
