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Items tagged: survivor

Esmeralda: A transgender asylum seeker speaks out against immigration detention

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Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a segregated cell with other transgender detainees, Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home. But her story is also one of hope for change.


Yul Kwon: "Why do Asian Americans have such poor odds of surviving leukemia and other blood-related disorders?"

A lot of people ask me why I went on Survivor.  There were several reasons, such as the hope of increasing the representation of Asian Americans on television and trying to get away from stereotypical depictions of people from our community.  But a deeper motivation was to have a platform for raising awareness of a need that's been haunting me ever since my days in college.