I always knew that my grandfather was sexist. When I was younger, the phone calls that he made from Taiwan to our home in the United States were never for me, but for my brother. During family reunions in Taiwan, he didn’t spend time with me, yet he spent hours upon hours with my male cousins. And when he gave out red envelopes on Chinese New Year, I never received any money. One time, I found out that when...

As a second grader in Taiwan, I went on a field trip to an environmental awareness center. At the end, the tour docent gave us a quiz on the presentation we’d just heard. The question that caused my breath to hitch and my pencil to linger was the one that asked me what I could do to help, and after my seven-year-old brain spent two minutes pondering my options, I finally wrote in, “Wait.” Wait? What does that even...

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