My children, husband, family & friends,issues within underserved communities (POCs, LGBTs, etc.), cooking, fitness & health, my pit bull Remi and German shepherd puppy Jax, etc.
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The Constant Gardener, The Life of David Gale, The Phantom of the Opera, Bring It On, Zoolander, The Sound of Music, Cars, Hotel Rwanda, About a Boy, The Little Mermaid, Brokeback Mountain, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., E.T., Forrest Gump, Crash, The Namesake, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Anything on Food Network (Barefoot Contessa, Easy Entertaining w/Michael Chiarello, Paula Deen's shows, Good Eats, etc.), Discovery (Dirty Jobs, Survivorman, etc.), & A&E; the Boondocks; my kids' shows (Dora & Diego, Backyardigans, Handy Manny, Little Einsteins, etc.); Nip/Tuck
Books by Eric Carle & Mo Willems & Lauren Child, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, The Quotable Rebel, Barefoot Contessa Cookbooks, my kids' books...especially the ones that discuss social justice issues and include characters from underserved communities...Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds, Coolies, In the Time of Drums, Uptown, etc.)
My parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, sister, husband, kids, best friends, my Asian American Studies advisors/instructors/professors @ UMD...