Race for Sale
A Chinese American woman weighs good will against personal mores in considering egg donoration.IT WAS THE PHRASE "loving couple" that touched my heart one spring day during my senior year of college in...
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An adoptee tells her story, from prison birth to prison reform.My world spun out of control when I found out that I was born addicted to heroin in the Alderson Federal Prison for women in West Virginia...
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First Person
19personal_web250.jpgA Silence Worth BreakingA daughter journeys to Thailand in search of the past and to reconcile her mother's suicide.read more
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Papa-San: Pat Morita’s Daughter on the Waxing and Waning of Her Father’s Life
Photo courtesy of Aly MoritaA little after his 50th birthday, Karate Kid happened. The role of Mr. Miyagi was both his most rewarding and most damning experience in show business. read more
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Seeking the Perfect Body
firstperson.lisalee.jpg Lisa Lee celebrates her 14th birthday in 1998 with some cake in the face. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Lee) Hyphen’s publisher recounts her struggle to face down the pressure to be...
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Reflections of War and a Makeshift Altar
22web.firstperson.courtesy_of_peter_swing.jpg Portraits of Peter J. Swing and his brother, left, and an alter in their mother's home. (Photos courtesy of Peter J. Swing) A Marine learns about tolerance...
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Suturing Self
23web.firstperson_dannyneece.jpg Illustrator Danny Neece A portrait of the idealist as a young doctor.One med student comes to grips with being a dutiful South Asian American daughter, accepting her...
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An Identity Under Wraps
24.firstperson.jpg Illustration by Helice Wen Living with a turban in a post-9/11 world.Growing up in Northern California, I remember chatting with my father as he tied his pagri. We started in the...
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The Power of Two
25.firstperson.jpg Stenzel with her sister Isabel in 2010 Two sisters, two cultures, two new chances at life.Writer Anabel Mariko StenzelI love Japan. As a child, I loved its scenery, food and the cute...
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A Call to Advocacy
fpihefrsv89bsd4zwm81f_ng8fleupwruizfelzq1n8.jpg Thuy-Anh Vo A second-generation Amerasian on activism and her father’s life and legacy.“Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who lived in a...
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From Darkness to Light
marsha--aiden-6.jpg Marsha and Aiden in Bali in 2007. How a mother and her transgender son journeyed to love and acceptanceFour years ago, my 20-year-old daughter fearfully looked across a table at me...
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