“Unmasking Expectations: How Hyeseung Song’s ‘Docile’ Shatters the Stereotypes of the Perfect Asian Girl”
And here is where I cried, once more, at this book’s beautiful closing. For readers like me, conditioned to be selfless, to think of parents, siblings, partners, or colleagues first, Hyeseung tells us what we need to know: celebrate the fire that is inside of you.
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Brian Watson has been a queer leader/mentor for more than 35 years. In addition to reviewing for Hippocampus Magazine, his craft essays appear in the BREVITY blog. White Enso selected his essay, “Bending Time,” for their nonfiction award. Cutbank and Columbia Journal named “Unfolding,” a braided essay, a finalist for their respective 2023 non-fiction contests. His writing mentor from the AWP Writer to Writer program is Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased, and he shares his outlooks on the intersections of Japan and queerness with more than 500 subscribers to Out of Japan, his Substack newsletter.
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