This all sounds, and sounded at the time, legitimately horrendous. I’m so sorry. ❤️

I think there’s something about cruelty from an institution that’s particularly hard to get closure around.

No worries! Between the curse of the Jennifers and a super common Chinese surname, I’ve known so many Jen Wangs!

I’m a different Jen Wang, but I’m glad your niece is loving reading!

I don't know. It's just a marvel that LA holds all the things that it holds.

I was rooting for the Dodgers in part because I've started to really like baseball, but also because there's this feeling in the air here; ICE has made life *hard*. We could use a reason to celebrate. But/and there are now videos in my feed of the LAPD tear gassing fans in Echo Park.

And, I don't know, it's not that different from how I feel about the universities I attended or the one @siobhandougall.com worked at. Large organizations do wonderful and awful things all at once. They employ awesome people and absolute jags. It's both/and.

After weeks of silence, the Dodgers announced that they would donated $1M to organizations that serve immigrants. That's a lot of money, but we all know that it's not a lot of money for the Dodgers.

Which is why it hurt so much when we all learned that ICE used the parking lot at Dodger Stadium as a staging area—where citizens spotted people who had been kidnapped at Home Depot being forced into white vans before being taken downtown. Immigrants make the team great, make LA great.