How does it feel to be you? -Maxine Hong Kingston, Novelist, National Book Award Winner

In 1994 I took a college course called Women in Literature. It was an upper-level course and in it we read The Woman Warrior. Like for many, Maxine Hong Kingston’s book opened my eyes to systemic racism, first through the lens of Chinese-Americans, then to American society in general. Kingston’s powerful prose forced me to ask:

How am I perpetuating these systems of oppression?

How can we stop?