are rituals of grief and healing from the violence of patriarchy, capitalism, assimilation, and life within the imperial core. My work explores themes of estrangement, generational trauma and rupture, mental health, and surviving sexual and gender trauma. I seek to break through the silence and shame in these issues for Asian-American femmes, children of immigrants, and peoples living within the imperial core. As a survivor who struggles with dissociation and putting words to my silence, my art practice has been a tactile way to ground myself back in my body, bringing me back to the soft and certain movements of my own two hands. Here, I make softness where I’ve felt a lack, and weave bridges back to the stolen parts of my self.