The most damaging legacy of the West has been its power to decide who our enemies are, turning us not only against our own people, like North and Sou… - Cathy Park Hong

Asians are hyper invisible. We’re not even included in racial breakdowns in polls. We’re always listed as ‘other’, if we’re listed at all...It almost feels like we’re not publicly participating in this country.

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

The problem with silence is that it can’t speak up and say why it’s silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.