Illustrations: Mary Vertulfo

Please Don’t Compliment My English

White men do not own the English language, and no one should be held up to this standard to be understood

I have become desensitized to the “ching-chongs,” the barks telling me to go back to my country, and White men telling me they “love Asian girls.” But the comment that somehow stings the most is the appraisal of my English…