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This is the space where I share professional insights, personal stories, creative writing, and day-to-day reflections. My writing chronicles my living experiences and acts as a place where I can personally offer you professional expertise and best practice ideas.
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SUSIE 수지
I feel blocked emotionally. Sitting here thinking of the dreaded “writer’s block” and I wonder, can a person’s emotional release be stuck just on the other side of an immense and harrowing wall?
A blog post on this day of loss. For my father, the man I never fully had the chance to know. Whose life sparked passion and purpose in my own.
29 years ago today.
#suicideawareness #losssurvivor
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By Pata Suyemoto […]
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Grateful to speak during the Crisis Jam’s Lived Lens segment around AANHPI issues and the importance of understanding of language yesterday. Catch the full session on YouTube (I speak around […]
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Yesterday, I posted about how when we are profiting from using another person’s lived experience story, we should be compensating those individuals too. A lot of unfollows ensued. I would […]
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