05
Apr
I thought being miserable was just part of being Chinese American
Article by Kristina Wong. Choice quotes:
“Spend $100 to tell a stranger your problems? Are you crazy? Why, yes, maybe I am. But I don’t know because my mom won’t give me the money to see a shrink…I ran across a statistic in 2004 that reported Asian American women as having some of the highest rates of suicide in this country. I decided I would make a theater show about it and call it “Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” When I received major arts grant funding to make it, my mother said, “I’m so proud of you. Just don’t talk about me or the family in your show.”
“Doing a show about Asian American depression without mentioning your mother is like making a porno movie without sex.”
- badasiandaughter posted this