My poetry and art practice are rituals of grief and healing from the violence of patriarchy, capitalism, and American assimilation. My work explores themes of dissociation, estrangement, generational trauma and rupture, mental health, and surviving sexual and gender trauma. Through weaving and writing, I break through the silence and shame surrounding these issues for Asian-American femmes, children of immigrants, and peoples living within the imperial core. As a survivor who struggles with dissociation and putting words to my silence, weaving has been a tactile way to ground myself back in my body, bringing me back to the soft and certain movements of my own two hands. Here, I make softness where I’ve felt a lack, and weave new relationships to myself, to others, and to this land. As an arts and cultural worker, I believe in the transformative power of intentional relationship building and collaboration across diverse cultures, backgrounds, and through the diaspora. My organizing work in the Bay Area arts community deeply informs my art practice.
