“You need your mother. Your mother beats you. Translation: You need your mother to beat you. Your mother loves you. Your mother beats you. Translation: Sometimes love looks like this. You look for a love that looks like this. You… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call miracles rather than eye from an ambivalent distance, fists clenched in hopes that we don't cry, for god's… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
“Some workshop professors will say you can write the same essay a hundred times because there's no such thing as a single objective narrative… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
“Trauma doesn't occur in a vacuum. You don't outgrow it with time. It grows with you, even if the growing goes all wrong. It's… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
“You need your mother. Your mother beats you. Translation: You need your mother to beat you. Your mother loves you. Your mother beats you.… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
“Xenophobia doesn't always look like a monument of shame. It doesn't always look like ridicule and jeering. It looks like a room full of… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
“She will sit there and ask, "Why you do like this?" She will ask, "Why you do this drug?" She will ask, "Why you… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call miracles rather… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
