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01/24/2018
Is Making Friends as an Introverted Immigrant Harder Than Dating?
You move somewhere new and by the time you make friends there, you leave the country. Or your friends leave the country. I gravitate towards people who like to leave.
03/20/2018
How I Came Up With the Name Foreignish
The first names I could think of were embarrassing.
08/27/2018
Stop Asking Where I’m From
The answer won't reveal much anyway. There's a better question. No, it's not "What's your background?"
02/18/2019
People Mispronounce My Foreign Name But It’s Partly My Fault
When people butcher my name, I don't correct them for fear of making them uncomfortable.
05/13/2019
How I Made the Foreignish Logo
Designing a logo looks easy until you try doing it yourself.
08/21/2019
The Hermetically Sealed Suburban Lifestyle
To an immigrant, the suburbs can be soul-crushing.
01/14/2020
Foreign, Poor and in the Ivy League
When you simultaneously inhabit the worlds of poverty and privilege.
04/10/2021
Are You a Global Citizen?
Being a citizen of the world isn't about traveling, which is only accessible to a privileged few.
06/19/2021
Rejecting The Single Immigrant Story
There's no such thing as The Immigrant Story. There are numerous immigrant stories.
12/01/2021
Who Taught You to Love?
I’ve changed countries and languages, but my attachment style has remained the same.
04/13/2022
Don’t Be the Voice of the Voiceless, Even If You’re a Minority
We, the voiceless, are already speaking for ourselves.
09/23/2023
Becoming Canadian
Studying for the Canadian citizenship test exposed me to a misleading story about how Canada came to be.
02/23/2024
The Shame of Forgetting My Mother Tongue
I've forgotten my mother tongue and I feel like a different person when I switch languages.
06/29/2026
Goodbye, Canada
Packing up my life and leaving a place is a skill I’ve perfected.
09/17/2026
In My Move to Europe, I Lost All My Journals
It took only a few minutes to destroy my entire life's diaries.