AM I OKAY

Am I okay. As if this week was the starting place to ask this. Because the words Kung Flu has been circulating for longer than that. Because the sentiment that Northern American made somehow denotes superiour to Asian made. Because hot for an Asian or hot because I’m a fetish is supposed to be a compliment. Because I was told I had “settled” by marrying an Asian man, they said I could have “done better” by marrying white (FYI - I would marry my man again and again). Because back in the 80s, my uncles had endured burglary, and irreparable physical and psychological assault— the authorities said it was just simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. My brother relentlessly bullied for a decade at school, and those authorities saying that’s just too bad.