Asian American History 101—The Summit refers to The APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit, a gathering of Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) spoken word artists and poets.
How Often Do You Masturbate? was inspired by not your fetish by I was born with two tongues
Return to Sender—The Child Citizenship Act (CCA) of 2000 grants US citizenship to inter-country adoptees but is not inclusive of adoptees who were adults at that time. There are an estimated thirty-five thosuand adoptees living without US citizenship. Some have been deported and some of the deported have not survived. The Adoptee Citizenship Act aims to close this loophole.
Consider was written with the text of Scott Cohen’s “Popular Turf Varieties,” landscapingnetwork.com/lawns/types.html.
For My Mother is loosely based on Things I Could Never Tell My Mother by Denise Duhamel.
KADalicious—KAD is commonly used to refer to Korean Adoptee
Pyeongchang 2018 Charter—2018 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the 1988 Seoul Olympics when South Korea’s baby export business was exposed to the world and at which time South Korea greatly reduced the number of children being sent abroad.
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them.
—Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, January 1988