Ever since I started writing poetry seriously, I have used English inappropriately. - Cathy Park Hong

The way Richard Pryor talked about race was so brutally honest and funny and unvarnished. It made me think that I had never encountered Asian identity being written in that way.

minor feelings: the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one’s perception of reality constantly questioned or dismissed.

To other English is to make audible the imperial power sewn into the language, to slit English open so its dark histories slide out.