You deserve the world. Demand it. What’s your name? Yes, yours.I used to cut out the part of my name containing the Chinese pinyin (latin letter-spelling of Chinese characters) which was incorporated in my Western name

“Why do you smell like curry?” Are you going to have to get an arranged marriage?” Don’t you like worship cows or something?” Fielding ignorant questions like these was just an average day in the life of growing up in South Georgia.

As we grow older and have more confidence to think for ourselves, the damage of toxic parenting and dysfunctional families is not easy to forget. Often our trauma is internalised within us and creeps back every now and then.