Last week, the Supreme Court brought racial affirmative action programs in higher education to an end. As a second-generation, biracial Korean American--who also happens to be a scholar of race and critical identity theory--I offer some scattered, personal...
Earlier this week, I was out for a run and got a blast from the past courtesy of Apple Music. “Run-Around” by Blues Traveler came through my AirPods. This song was released my junior year of high school and introduced to me by my love interest, or perhaps...
We’re all connected. We’re connected and we’re all made from the same stuff. Some say it’s stardust, which is a lovely thought, but sounds way too pretty for all the guts and brains. More importantly, our essence, our souls, are in the image and likeness of...
On Monday, we celebrate Juneteenth, a federal holiday which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Some of you know that my Ph.D. dissertation focused on questions of racial identity and justice. The first chapter of that dissertation...
"Apocalyptic." Without question, that was the one word I heard used most often to describe the phenomenon we saw this past Wednesday, when smoke from Canadian wildfires covered our beloved city in an orange haze. I snapped this photo facing north on 5thAveat...