The Power of Generations, Part II: Legacies Across Time

The Power of Generations, Part II: Legacies Across Time

To read part one of this series, click here. Living in a four-generation family allows me to experience the waxing and waning of life. From my perspective as Obaasan (grandmother), I can observe our family’s generational inhaling and exhaling — a rising and falling...
The Power of Generations, Part II: Legacies Across Time

Serve the People

This post originally appeared on the SEARAC blog. by Nkauj Iab Yang Like many Hmong parents, my parents, Soua Toua Yang and Song Vang, came to the United States as Hmong refugees. By the age of 13, my dad was a soldier of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Secret Army...
The Power of Generations, Part II: Legacies Across Time

A Mother’s Take: Living Above the Line

This article originally appeared in the Pacific Citizen. Recently, I received a message from a mother who asked me, “How do you deal with all the hatred that is in the world?” She has a transgender son, and so I knew her question was directed at me because I, too,...