"Adoptee liberation is also connected to our shared liberation"

"Our healing is rooted in decolonizing ourselves"

"We've always had queer Hmong artists as a part of SOY"

“We were finally able to celebrate that part of ourselves”

"How do you get men to support your organization?... You don't"

"Education should be used as a tool for liberation"

"We were born out of the struggles of the people before us"

"Which came first, the dream or the dreamer?"

"Don't give power to people who cannot see you"

"Is this what is means to be Asian in America?"

“This country viewed my mother as ‘unworthy’ of receiving a basic human right”

“I ask myself, when will others accept me as an American?”

“Would I remember all their names if they looked more like me?”

I felt the strength that I needed to be out there capturing history

“My classmates didn’t believe that I was Asian, so I brought in my mother for show-and-tell”

We shared a love and pride for our people... Isn’t that what friendship is?

“She was stomping and shooing me away like I’m some kind of wild animal"