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"I wondered if she thought she was treating me with love, if this was a kind of respect. My mother would often tell me she loved me while she punched me in the face, but I've touched my canvases gently and carefully and with precision while resenting their very existence."
— Jun 08, 2026 06:57PM
Brooke Yanaga
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"My mother taught me to be grateful for all experiences, the painful ones, too, because even pain is a gift, an invitation to know myself deeper, and this wisdom that comes from wounds, I can use to help others. It's not necessary to make art, but it can be useful to put pain into something other than one's own body."
— Jun 07, 2026 02:20PM
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Jun 04, 2026 12:42PM
“My father’s Korean-ness lurks invisibly inside of me, none of it enough in itself to create an obvious impression of Korean-ness. Saying that I am Korean American is an act of claiming it, an insistence, it does not seem like it should belong to me because my body was designed according to the instructions instilled into me by my mother’s white-mutt genes, some German and Czech, watered down after generations in America. I’ve always been bitter about being neither one total thing nor the other because, even at the place where my differences converge, it’s muddy, I get all smeared.”
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