asian american

Love you so much and you so rude, Māmā says to Dòu Dòu as they argue in the next room. * Sometimes I wonder what Little Moon can know of love if Māmā has only ever loved her in English.

-Xialoe Zhan, Think an Empty Room, Moonly with Phone Glow

Once, at a party set on a rooftop in Brooklyn for an “artsy vibe,” a young woman said, sipping her drink, You’re so lucky. You’re gay plus you get to write about war and stuff. I’m just white. [Pause.] I got nothing. [Laughter, glasses clinking.] Unlike feelings, blood gets realer when you feel it. Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into