Tag: Colonized

A Colonized Life

A colonized life is often the life you do not live. A life lived apart. It is being the body defined, never the body defining. I was once asked to define for myself what it’s like. To talk about what it is to live with so many marginalizations in this one body. The problem with defining coloni...

“Yes, my mother is Japanese. But…”: Notes on a hyphenated and colon-ized identity

Myneighbor was having a stoop sale this morning, and although I have been living next to this woman, her son and husband for the past two years, today was the first day that I reached out and talked with her. She is Japanese, from Japan. Her husband is from Japan. Her son was likely born in the Unit...