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Yvonne Liu

(She/Her)
Los Angeles
As seen in: The New York Times, Yahoo Life, Bloomberg News, Business Insider, HuffPost, Wiley Online Library, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo News New Zealand and
Covers:  Mental health, wellness, parenting, wellness, adoption, cancer, trauma, Asian issues and popular culture
James Patterson Grant. 3M+ read @HuffPost essay. Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholar. @PENAmerica & Bread Loaf support. @nytimes Modern Love podcast. Memoirist.

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Writer. Bylines @NYTimes @Insider @Newsweek @HuffPost @Salon @NBCNews THINK & more. Memoir in progress. Childhood Trauma & Cancer Survivor. Adoptee. linktr.ee/lawriter. Member @ASJAhq @AAJA. Over 1.5 M people read my HuffPost essay.

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Opinion | For kids who grew up like me, Netflix's 'Maid' is hard to watch - but necessary

Opinion | For kids who grew up like me, Netflix's 'Maid' is hard to watch - but necessary

Watching "Maid" reminded me of what it's like to have a mother with a mental illness.

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Tiny Love Stories: 'Never Forget Me'

Tiny Love Stories: 'Never Forget Me'

The story of my birth and adoption journey in 98 words.

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'I'm Asian American, I Battled So Much Shame About My Mental Health'

'I'm Asian American, I Battled So Much Shame About My Mental Health'

Stigma and shame surrounding mental health prevent many from seeking the help they need.

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The agony of rewatching "Everybody Loves Raymond" reminds me of my family's damaging dysfunction

The agony of rewatching "Everybody Loves Raymond" reminds me of my family's damaging dysfunction

Most people watch "Everyone Loves Raymond" and smile. As I binged the beloved sitcom in anticipation of its 2…

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Connie Lim, Quiet no more

Connie Lim, Quiet no more

Connie Lim's heart-wrenching song "Quiet" became the ballad of the #metoo movement.

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I kept my breast cancer a secret for 28 years because of stigma in the Asian American community. ...

I kept my breast cancer a secret for 28 years because of stigma in the Asian American community. ...

I was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30 and received treatment for 10 months. I hid what I was going thr…

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誰が見ても「完璧な家族」だった私たち。でも誰も知らない秘密があった

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By Yvonne Liu
| HuffPost Japan Verified
【初出：2024年5月12日】 昨年まで、私はイリノイ州のシカゴ生まれだと言っていた。学校書類から大学や職場の申請書、そして医療記録にさえも、私の出生地は「イリノイ州」と記載されていた。 でも、それは嘘だ。 実際は、私は会ったこともない女性のもと、香港で生まれた。そしてそれから60年以上経った昨年まで、自分が養子であることを秘密にしていた。 何十年もの間、私は夫と3人の子どもたちと共に、郊外で良い暮らしを送っていた。その間ずっと、暖炉の上に飾られている写真に映る、魅力的で優秀な夫婦の間に生まれたと人々を信じ込ませていた。両親が私を養子にしたことを恥じていたように、私も養子であることを恥じていた。 中国の伝統的な文化的信念に縛られ、両親は私と兄に、養子だということを秘密にするよう誓わせた。不妊や養子縁組に対する恥やスティグマは、両親にとって耐え難いものだった。 孔子とその信者たちは、女性の最大の務めは男児を産むことだと信じていた。私の母は、息子はもちろん、娘さえ産むことができなかった。...
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I Was a Baby Jane Doe like the one on The Pitt

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By Yvonne Liu
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This season, the popular HBO series The Pitt gives us a Baby Jane Doe. No name, no explanation why her mother abandoned her. She arrives the way Jane Does always arrive—out of nowhere and unaware that her mother has left her. Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby picks her up. The show allows itself a stillness here it doesn’t usually permit—fifteen hours of controlled ER chaos and then this: a man and an infant who don’t belong to each other, both of them quieter for it. The baby settles. He settles.
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I Kept My Family's Secret For Over 60 Years. Now, I'm Finally Telling The Truth.

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By Yvonne Liu
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Courtesy of Yvonne Liu Until last year, I told everyone I was born in Chicago. Every school form, all of my college and job applications, and even my medical records listed my birthplace as Illinois. That was a lie. I was actually born in Hong Kong to a woman I’ve never met. And until last year, more than 60 years after my birth, I kept my adoption a secret.
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