English Language Glossary for a Daughter of Refugees

How to find the right words in another tongue

Amy Lam
Gay Mag
Published in
13 min readSep 24, 2019

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Illustrations by Carmen Johns

TThe first lies I told were in Cantonese. Like when I hit my brother and said I didn’t. Or when I peed my pants at naptime and quietly slipped off the queen-sized mattress our entire family shared. I stuffed my soiled bottoms into the middle of the hamper and put on dirty underwear and pants I fished…

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