And I am overcome with envy for the people who live where they were born and raised. Why is it that I have to choose?

Lik bat chung sam - do you know what it means? It means, what your heart wants you cannot do. It is an uncomfortable feeling. It's the feeling of wanting to do something and not being able to.

My grandmas says that when I was in preschool in Hong Kong, I always got in trouble for being too loud. All I remember is that, after moving to Canada, every report card said I was too quiet.

Astronaut family. It's a term invented by the Hong Kong mass media. A family with an astronaut father - flying her, flying there.

Korea never thought we would return. The country abandoned us before we could speak for ourselves. No one knew that we would thirst for our families and roots, that against all odds, we would come back to live here again. No one was prepared for adult adoptees to come back and reclaim our rights.

The narrative of the good country of Sweden, with its noble people, who through adoption, are saving vulnerable children of the world.

International adoption was established as the practice we know today after the Korean War. Children are moved from the global South to the political West, where they are placed in white families, renamed, and have their mother tongue replaced. The demand for adoptable children outgrew the supply. Adoption became more about childless adults who wish to create a family, than orphans in need of protection. As large sums of money are involved, there's a strong incentive to illegally supply the market with what it needs: adoptable children, as young as possible.

I didn't kill him. He killed himself. But we made him kill himself. ... Every day. He was forced to look at us. Forced to remember. It must have driven him crazy. Eventually it made him self-destruct. So, to answer your question, no, I did not kill him. ... One day Kashmir will make India self-destruct in the same way. You may have blinded all of us, every one of us, with your pellet guns by then, But you will still have eyes to see what you have done to us. You're not destroying us. You are constructing us. It's yourselves that you are destroying.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations. 

If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever. 

Because other nations with so many people do not have so much money, and other nations with so much money do not have so many people, and other nations with so much money and so many people do not have so much power.

And over God is, woman.

After all, she, like most other women, mistakenly thought that the well-being of the patriarchal system and the continuity of her husband's lineage rested entirely on her womb's ability to produce males.

I am in awe of how things flow between cultures, where objects, materials, and people fly under the radar, across porous borders and checkpoints, bypassing censors and gatekeepers.