Cheryl Chow, Seattle's API leader comes out!

Cheryl Chow being 66 years now is still making waves in the community.  What great news to wake up to. After thinking about my own coming out process and realizing at the Brandi Carlile (another local Seattle lesbian) concert a few nights ago that it has been 10 years since my coming out to myself. Now with political leader Cheryl Chow, who has been a well regarded and spokesperson for the API community, has come out  - its a big deal.

Golden Nugget - Rigidness

A few years ago my friend and I came up with this term "golden nugget" from our days of struggle and search for our "truth" whatever it was during the time. While we were unraveling our truth and learning about ourselves and the world around us, we would come to understand or have sudden "ah ha" moments/epiphanies and we called these insights - golden nuggets.  I thought that it would be nice to share some nuggets with ya'll and I hope that ya'll would do the same, since as LesbeAsians, we often struggle to survive in this world that doesn't always recognize or accept who we are fully.  Not being accepted or recognized as the cool people we are could have damaging effects especially when the rejection is from the people that matter the most - our parents, family, friends.  So these nuggets were/are useful in reminding ourselves to think beyond what we already know and especially that yea we cool, yea we gorgeous, yea we awesome, yea we are just right.  AND its too bad for the world for missing out :)

Here is one nugget (usually its not this long, but I feel like this needs some explaining) -