As a resident of Orange County, I live in L.A. Sparks country, as far as WNBA fandom goes. But as soon as the expansion Golden State Valkyries named Natalie Nakase, a friend of this blog, as their first head coach, I was a committed GSV fan!
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A bit more than a year ago, my older daughter (now a high school graduate) and I read and discussed with each other Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House … Yet by NBC News correspondent and occasional anchor Ali Vitali. I repost here that wonderful conversation between my daughter and me, in light of the exciting candidacy of Kamala Harris for the presidency:
Some of the language in this post is gut-level honest and may not be appropriate for younger children.
It has been a terrible day in Asian America, as so many of us feel the enormous weight of the news out of the Atlanta area. You’ve likely already heard about it, too – the mass murder of eight precious human beings, six of them Asian women.
I’ve especially felt moved by the outpouring of grief and anger from Asian American women. Because while these killings impact every Asian American, it’s Asian American women who feel the horror most viscerally. It’s almost so obvious that we might miss it – these weren’t just acts of racialized hate, but they were particularly directed at Asian women.
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Feminist Asian Dad 