Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Salon.com
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The "Squid Game" critique is also a love letter to a unified Korea
What the west doesn't understand about Netflix's hit show is that much of it is a critique of the US influence → Read More
Op-Ed: President Trump is obsessed with Asia for all the wrong reasons
On COVID-19, South Korea and other Asian countries have outshone the United States. So why does Trump keep boasting about his response? → Read More
The racist art of naming a virus
The rhetoric around 2019-nCoV — the "Wuhan coronavirus" — plays on centuries-old racist sentiments against Asians → Read More
Op-Ed: Andrew Yang seems invisible to the mainstream media — just like most Asian Americans
Yang's media blackhole may not have to do with his being Asian, but it’s impossible to miss the similarities to what Asian American people experience daily. → Read More
It's not just the Costco shooting. Disabilities often lead to fatal police encounters
I worry, now more than ever since the Costco shooting, about my son's interactions with police who don’t understand his disabilities. → Read More
When Did Asian Food Become Dirty? – BLARB
Marie Myung-Ok Lee discusses the opening of a white-run "clean" Chinese restaurant in Manhattan. → Read More
How the college admissions scandal helped me appreciate my tiger parents
The college admissions scandal makes clear that my Korean immigrant parents’ obsessive strategy was a rational and smart choice given the horribly unlevel playing field. → Read More
Politics and Prose
Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author's reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean? → Read More
I’m a minority. My son is disabled. It’s an unsettling time for people like us in Trump country
This spring, my family took a cross-country road trip. My husband and I have a son who has autism and other cognitive difficulties. Having read about autistic children getting kicked off planes, as well as the recent United debacle in which an Asian-American doctor was forcibly dragged from his seat, when we needed to go... → Read More
“Get Out” shows that even the most intelligent films can fall prey to Asian-American stereotypes
For all its attention to the violence that characterizes the modern black experience, the film has a startling blind spot when it comes to Asian Americans. → Read More
Republicans see the arts as a threat—and that’s why they’re always eager to take its funding away
A society that directs public funding to the arts is one that values freedom of expression. → Read More
I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life.
It’s time to reexamine the cultural and legal restrictions we put on medical marijuana. → Read More
History classes are our best hope for teaching Americans to question fake news and Donald Trump
An education in history teaches students to question the stories that are handed to us. → Read More
Why I’m Afraid for My Son With Autism and His Black Caregivers
“All he has is a toy truck. A toy truck. I am a behavior therapist at a group home.” These were the words Charles Kinsey, an African-American man and behavioral therapist, spoke to police when they confronted him as he was trying to calm his patient, an autistic man named Rinaldo. → Read More
This feminist is sticking with Bernie Sanders: Why Hillary backers need to take another long, honest look
Before it's too late, my fellow feminists need to reconsider Clinton, ignore the peer pressure, and vote on issues → Read More
"Our protesters came in for abortions": Fear, slut-shaming, Planned Parenthood, and the truth about right-wing religious hypocrisy
Talk to providers and an amazing story emerges: It's not uncommon to go from picket-lines to the waiting room → Read More
“Our protesters came in for abortions”: Fear, slut-shaming, Planned Parenthood, and the truth about right-wing religious hypocrisy
Talk to providers and an amazing story emerges: It's not uncommon to go from picket-lines to the waiting room → Read More
A black church loved us: We were welcomed with open arms, just as Dylann Roof was in Charleston
"You should come back," they said, as we shopped for a church that felt like home. How could we refuse? → Read More
McKinney pool party cop’s vicious hatred: This is the face of white rage
So many of our daily interactions are polluted by racism. Add cops and guns and it's a recipe for violence and hate → Read More
My autistic son and my career
When my boy was diagnosed, I thought I had forever lost my ability to write. Instead he helped me find my voice → Read More