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My Healing Is Undone Every Time One of Us Is Killed by the Police

How do I work to get better if my presence in this country is a constant threat?

5 min readOct 9, 2020

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What Our Immigrant Mothers Don’t Discuss About Mental Health

I thought my mother and I were different, but our lives could not have been more in sync

6 min readFeb 26, 2020

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A black and white photo of a Vietnamese mom and daughter standing in a street.

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How Trauma Bonding Invited — Then Destroyed — a Friendship

I found a kindred spirit during times of great stress. But when it was time to grow, we drifted apart.

10 min readSep 18, 2019

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How Trauma Bonding Invited — Then Destroyed — a Friendship

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What My Yemeni Friend Taught Me About Living in Limbo

In the wake of Trump’s travel ban, migrants continue to face an uneasy future

8 min readJul 31, 2019

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When Everything That You Believe is Dead: for Mac Miller

During the tail-end of the 2016 campaign, three things always reliably accompanied me on my drives out to my region. My car would be a…

5 min readSep 11, 2018

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When Everything That You Believe is Dead: for Mac Miller

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South Sacramento Ain’t Midtown: On Stephon Clark’s Murder

In November 2014, shortly before I was detained in Berkeley for protesting against police brutality, my mother called me and asked me to…

8 min readMar 27, 2018

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South Sacramento Ain’t Midtown: On Stephon Clark’s Murder

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Post-grad life advice from a non-graduate

Yeah. You caught me. I’ve not actually graduated.

7 min readMay 31, 2017

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Nisa Dang

Nisa Dang

Nisa Dang (she/they) is a political strategist with a background in voting rights, Black liberation, and immigration work. Read more at http://www.nisadang.co.

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