Thank you Ellie for your work and diving into these necessary conversations. I have been in deep study around intergenerational trauma and its effects especially on maternal child development as a study in my own ancestry on my Chinese side. How a lost matriarch effects downstream may continue the un-metabolized life of ancestry born in our DNA backbone. Working on a book on this from my generation and of my mothers. I have spent alot of time in the stories generated from being othered, shoe horned into the minority mythos of deception and disfigurement. My generation does not want to really expose the "Dirty Laundry and wants to keep a good face forward. Not all mind you, though I believe your generation has less attachment and want to understand this better, as I can tell in your interview. Sending words of being seen in your work and your efforts in becoming into this world here. Blessings and Namaste, t I just posted this essay with my daughter and I like that there is parity in the world especially on matter of being whole in the world, seen, heard and understood that I see is occurring in this stack here! Thank you Editor Tiffany! I hope this is ok to do...to share here. Let me know if not... a bit shameless?https://open.substack.com/pub/terrykim/p/on-belonging?r=qtqv0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This is a fantastic interview, so insightful, and truly inspiring — about not only the issues explored in the book, but the research and writing process as well. Thank you Ellie for sharing all this knowledge, and major gratitude to Tiffany Chu and the Asian Writers' Collective for featuring this enlightening conversation!
Thank you for such a meaty interview! It was a pleasure
Thank you Ellie for your work and diving into these necessary conversations. I have been in deep study around intergenerational trauma and its effects especially on maternal child development as a study in my own ancestry on my Chinese side. How a lost matriarch effects downstream may continue the un-metabolized life of ancestry born in our DNA backbone. Working on a book on this from my generation and of my mothers. I have spent alot of time in the stories generated from being othered, shoe horned into the minority mythos of deception and disfigurement. My generation does not want to really expose the "Dirty Laundry and wants to keep a good face forward. Not all mind you, though I believe your generation has less attachment and want to understand this better, as I can tell in your interview. Sending words of being seen in your work and your efforts in becoming into this world here. Blessings and Namaste, t I just posted this essay with my daughter and I like that there is parity in the world especially on matter of being whole in the world, seen, heard and understood that I see is occurring in this stack here! Thank you Editor Tiffany! I hope this is ok to do...to share here. Let me know if not... a bit shameless?https://open.substack.com/pub/terrykim/p/on-belonging?r=qtqv0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This is a fantastic interview, so insightful, and truly inspiring — about not only the issues explored in the book, but the research and writing process as well. Thank you Ellie for sharing all this knowledge, and major gratitude to Tiffany Chu and the Asian Writers' Collective for featuring this enlightening conversation!