Stacy Lee Kong

1 week ago | fridaythings.com | Stacy Lee Kong

Content warning: this newsletter contains disturbing details around anti-Blackness, medical racism, medical torture, reproductive injustice, slavery and death. I’m honestly too horrified to come up with a clever way into this one, so I’m just going to say: I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Adriana Smith since I first learned her name last week. In February, doctors declared Smith, a 30-year-old Black woman, brain dead.

1 week ago | fridaythings.com | Stacy Lee Kong

For many immigrants, there is a sense of ‘unreality’ around returning to our homelands; they are places that we are nostalgic for, yet when we return, we often realize we’ve been missing a place that no longer exists. Sometimes, it can even feel like we’re missing a place when we’re physically there.

2 weeks ago | fridaythings.com | Stacy Lee Kong

According to a recent study, second-generation racialized people in Canada will number between 4.8 million and 6.3 million by 2041, more than double their population in 2016 (2.2 million). But, the study says, these people, who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of the ‘Canadian dream’ their parents sacrificed to achieve, aren’t doing as well as you’d think.

3 weeks ago | fridaythings.com | Stacy Lee Kong

To your other point about the rejection of the Black woman as a guide, I don't think I was as intentional in thinking about that, but I'm glad you said it, because I feel like that's something I've been wrestling with in different ways, especially since becoming a mom. People always think, once you become a mom—and especially as a Black woman—that you're a mother [which means] you carry yourself a certain way, and you reject certain things.

3 weeks ago | fridaythings.com | Stacy Lee Kong

To introduce the theme of Friday Talks Season 3, I’m bringing one of my actual group chats to life with a candid, funny and very real convo that features two previous guests, who also happen to be IRL besties: Allison Hill, founder of Hill Studio, a salon and wellness space for Black women, and journalist, producer and writer Pacinthe Mattar. In episode 1, we’re talking about the pros and cons of group chats for racialized women, especially those of us who belong to immigrant communities.