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I really should write an essay about how my secretly Taiwanese grandmother used to dye kimonos for Yukio Mishima that would later get soiled during anal sex.
Confessions of a Masc4Masc
On a more solemn note, it makes me really sad to see how the Western education system has really failed in teaching people about Japanese Empire and Imperialism, about the intersections of race, caste, gender, and sexuality in “The Pacific Theater.”
My grandmother, to this day, still struggles with her identity as a gendered diaspora experiencing cultural & linguistic dysphoria. There are days she’ll have nightmares in Vietnamese because she remembers traveling to Hanoi for lotus silk as the bombs dropped all around her.
She still speaks Mandarin and Hokkien with a distinctly Japanese accent because she was always too afraid of being exposed. After years of intentionally speaking it incorrectly, she can’t do it properly anymore. She purged her mother tongue, Amis, from her mouth.
All because she didn’t want the men behind the sun that she worked for, ultranationalist men like Yukio Mishima, to use her body as a field trip, to turn her into a torture toy.
Today, there are still oceans and mountains of secretly Korean and secretly Taiwanese and secretly Chinese and secretly non-Japanese Asian people living in Japan. These same people, like my grandmother, live to service the people who razed their countries to the ground.
Asian Pacific women have carried maybes and babies through mountains for millennia, the memories melting in their mouths.
Unit 731. The Rape of Nanjing. Sex Slaves. The Assassination of Queen Min and The Annexation of Korea. The Siam-Burma Railway. Bataan Death March. The Fall of Singapore. Alexandra Hospital Massacre. Chemical Weapons. Cannibalism. Hell Ships. Death Camps.
I’ll leave you all with the question, “How many people had to have been raped for you to have been born?” The answer is not a quantity, but a guarantee, a Yes.
If you learned something today and you want to pay me something that may or may not encourage me to put out an entire essay, please Venmo me at @weiweiwrites
I’ll write the essay if Louise Glück calls me to offer me a Stegner Fellowship. I hope all of you can please pray to the universe with and for me. Kthxbye. おわり~~~ 
