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Social Media in a Time of Political Upheaval
My social media feeds have been all over the place lately. Normally a smattering of mental health-related posts, some good articles here and there, but mostly pictures of my kid or my dog — but now, during the border crisis, it all seems ill-fitting and jarring. The images of migrants seeking asylum locked in cages, caked in filth, haunts my mind constantly. As I live my charmed life in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, my guilt continues to grow. Why should I be able to carry on, while innocent children at our border suffer? This is a drop-everything-and-scream-for-action type of emergency, yet we carry on. All of us look away sometimes…
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This 4th of July, I’m Furious
I have been a patriotic American since I have naturalized at the age of 16, after immigrating with my family when I was 9. Though my politics have always been progressive, I often shrugged off criticisms of the US government. “People don’t realize how good we have it and how bad it could get,” was my philosophy, happy to be among the privileged relishing in my civil rights and human rights. Before immigrating, my family ran a bathhouse in South Korea near a university. I remember when the Wanted posters went up. They posted one in our entryway. I studied the photos that were clearly college student ID pictures. Fresh…
