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Healing Anti-Asian Hate on My Birthday
By Canyon Sam — 2021
On a birthday like no other, Canyon Sam reflects on celebrating beauty, practicing joy and compassion, and the inspiration of novelist Maxine Hong Kingston in the face of an increase in anti-Asian violence.
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