From Invisible to Seen

Emily Um
4 min readMay 12, 2021

One of my earliest childhood memories was from after my first day at kindergarten. I came home and immediately asked my mom why I didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes. Newly aware of the fact that I didn’t look like the girls in my class who were mostly white, I questioned myself and wanted to change myself so that I would. I was beginning to realize that I was Korean and that made me different and maybe that was a bad thing.

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