Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Secret Asian Woman

Secret Asian Woman
Dmae Roberts

PART ONE- PASSING

DMAE: Not a week goes by that I don?t hear racist things said to my face.
When people find out I?m Asian they will ask me deeply personal questions that turn into interrogation and I?m compelled to defend myself.

All because I have a secret? I am Asian. At least half of me is, and every day is a choice for me to reveal my secret identity: I am Secret Asian Woman.

MUSIC UP

DMAE: There are lots of times when Secret Asian Woman drops cover...when I hear oriental instead of Asian...when someone, usually White, makes a Japanese houseboy comment...when I hear colleagues say they just ran a Chinese fire drill (do you know how many youtube videos feature kids running crazy around a car?) or when an educated businessman at a dinner party asks me if all Asians eat dog. That was just last month.

These are instances of racism that makes me feel uncomfortably like an undercover Asian. I?ve spent most of my life longing for recognition, for a name. It started in the 70?s, in high school when I could pass for White?

SOUND: Driving

DMAE: So the high school is over there somewhere.

KAREN: It is. Over there somewhere.

DMAE: It is, it?s somewhere there.

KAREN: We?ll find it.

DMAE: You used to be some way you could turn left.. There?s the school right there.

KAREN: Yeah it?s right there.

DMAE: Karen Boylan moved up from California the same time my family moved to Junction City, Oregon. And she too felt ostracized at school, and then we met in drama class. Every time I?m with Karen I think of her in eighth grade and I think of myself at that time too and we both get goofy.

KAREN: You remember in 8th grade when we made that movie? Remember that movie? I've got it?

DMAE: You've got the movie we made in drama class?

KAREN: And I don?t think anybody ever got to see it.

DMAE: Nobody ever got to see it. It was funny. How did you get a copy of it?

KAREN: Somehow. I don't know?

DMAE: You stole it?

KAREN: I stole it?

SOUND: LAUGHTER

DMAE: Living in Junction City was pretty horrible but it was the goofy times, with friends--my ability to escape through books, writing, acting that helped me to see beyond?to another time, to another possibility.

DMAE: (in car) That drama class pretty much saved my life. That and the English class.

KAREN: Oh yeah, me too?

MUSIC FADES UP

DMAE: Later, Karen and I we went to the Dairy Queen. Everyone used to hang out there so long ago. We took a look at our musty old yearbooks

SOUND OF DQ

DMAE: I want to see your picture. Where's your picture? There you are? You look so cute.

KAREN: Oh?

DMAE: I mean this is the best we could possibly look in school. This is it. And everybody got dressed up. The boys for the first time wore suits.

KAREN: There's a lot of plaids?(laughter)

DMAE: Everybody's in plaid, big bowties.

KAREN: Yeah, if there?s a message you can give to young girls, it?s you look the best you will in high school so you better enjoy it.

DMAE: And you don't even know you look good.

FADE OUT VOICES AND SOUND, BRING UP FLUTE MUSIC

DMAE: My first awareness of being different was in Japan. I have a photo of my kindergarten class full of Mixed Race and Asian kids. In Japan, Americans were a minority. I often wonder what my life would have been like if we stayed there. When I was eight my Dad left the military and became a traveling salesman. He moved us to Reno, Nevada, Boise, Idaho and Eugene, Oregon . From decent size urban cities, we then finally settled in Junction City, known in Oregon as the home of the Scandinavian festival. Good old JC was a rural town of 2000 farmers and pioneer descendants where everyone had a street named after them. Except us. We were the first interracial family. And the first Asians.

SOUND OF DQ FADES UP

DMAE: You know when you first move in, they really are suspicious of you.

KAREN: Well they are of anybody, actually, just because you aren?t somebody they grew up with and they have to see where you?re going to fit in, before they decide if it?s all right to be friends with you.

DMAE: And that can take years.

KAREN: It did take years. I know.

SOUND FADES OUT

DMAE: Karen doesn't know but her friendship provided healing moments for me. But even now I'm still hesitant to ask her this question?

SOUND OF DQ FADES UP AGAIN

DMAE: So when you look at all these pictures, do you ever, you know...when you look at me, does it look like I'm Asian to you or did you ever know that I was Asian?

KAREN: Oh I did.

DMAE: Really, even back did?

KAREN: Oh yeah, I did.

DMAE: How would you know though? Most people didn't.

KAREN: I could tell. I could tell by your eyes, and just your bone structure and stuff. Or something? I could tell.

SOUND FADES OUT.

DMAE: Our first day of school in Junction City, my little brother and I rode home on the school bus. My mother wanted to make a good impression so she stood at the bus stop waiting for us to come home. I heard a wave of gasps ripple from the front to the back of the bus where we were sitting.

They're Chi-neeese?.

All eyes locked on my little brother and I as we made our way out of the bus. I didn't greet my mother with a smile or a thank you. I secretly wished she had stayed away, stayed hidden, so we would have been spared the humiliation of being

Chi-neeese?

From that day on, until he graduated from high school, my eight-year-old sweet sensitive brother endured fights and racial pranks that would now be called ?hate crimes.?

MUSIC UP

DMAE: But I could pass. I could be Secret Asian Girl. And with that came an understanding of what it means to be blessed with White privilege and what it means to feel ashamed and covert. I secret Asianed my way through high school and college until the climate changed, and race could be talked about and explored and hey a source of pride.

COLLAGE

RAIN: Growing up I remember feeling ashamed and embarrassed of my Asian heritage, and I remember my best friend at the time, she was telling me, oh don?t worry, you don't look Asian?kind of like you don't have anything to worry about cos you look white and you?ll be fine.

PATTI: Even though people will ask me 'what are you?' or they'll say 'oh you're so exotic? or 'you're so this and that' they'll also make statements like 'well you know, we're all white so we think this.'

RAIN: ...and I remember feeling relieved that she had, mixed feeling, kind of part relief and part confusion, like wow thanks for telling me that, I feel better now.

VELINA: I've had Caucasians tell me this, I've had African Americans tell me this. Depending on where I go, I get asked are you Tongan, are you Micronesian, are you Colombian, are you Filipino, are you Sri Lankan, are you East Indian. People find it hard to believe. When I tell them that not a week goes by in my life without someone asking me where I?m from.

MUSIC OUT

PART TWO ? TO HALF OR HALF NOT

DMAE: In the 80s someone called me hapa, a Hawaiian word for half and I liked that. Before then, I was a collection of halves-- half Chinese, half white, half Taiwanese, half Okie. I even called myself half-Oriental till an Asian college professor told me that it was the language of the imperialists. The mysterious Orient versus the normal Occidental, I was happy to chuck 'oriental' --made me think of rugs anyway not people. (I tried on Eurasian during my Masterpiece Theatre phase. Then I saw some old movies with Shirley McClaine and Jennifer Jones who were supposed to be Eurasian. I didn?t look like either of them so I tossed out that word too. ) There was one word I once used that?s still embarrassing to this day. I admitted it to Patti Duncan. She?s a filmmaker and teaches women?s studies at Portland State University.

DMAE: I remember calling myself a half-breed once.

PATTI: I was a half-breed. Probably, it must have been early junior high I started a half breed club with my friends we lived near a US military base and so there were a lot of mixed race kids, products of mostly US soldiers who were white or black and a lot of Asian women and so we formed this club we called ourselves the Half Breed Club we were uh you know I think that must have been right after the Cher song was really popular, and I remember claiming that word. It was pretty empowering at the time. Now when I tell that story, people either laugh or cringe. But that was one of the names I went through for sure.

DMAE: Like me, people sometimes assume Patti Duncan is something other than Asian.

PATTI: (NEW) (GOING TO HAVE TO PULL THIS FROM ANOTHER SESSION) I think my mom thought that I was really lucky, because I was getting to grow up in the US I definitely had more privileges than she had had and she, she believed that I could pass for white, And at the same time she wanted me to be really proud to be and at the same time, she wanted me to be able to pass, and so sometimes she would tell me to not tell people who I was. And it was always kind of a challenge because at the same time I would feel ashamed when I did that because I didn?=;t want to disown my mom, and I felt proud of who she was and who she is.

DMAE: Whenever I meet someone like Patti, we have an instant connection . It was so rare in my childhood or even the early years of adulthood to meet someone I could talk to about race. You share secrets no one else would understand?

DMAE: Have you ever seen the movie Sayonara?

PATTI: Yes I have.

DMAE : When was the first time you saw Sayonara?

PATTI: You know I didn?t see this until later in life, I probably saw clips of it early?

FADE VOICES UNDER

DMAE: Patti grew up in Colorado. Her dad (like my dad) was in the military too. But her mom was from Korea. Mine was from Taiwan.

FADE UP SOUND OF FILM

DMAE: Okay, so it?s with Marlon Brando, of course. There?s a scene here that always gets me. With Red Buttons and they make you. Do you remember this scene?

DMAE: Sayonara, made in 1957, was the first interracial film where a soldier falls in love with an Asian woman. Interracial marriage still was illegal in many states till 1967. That?s something a lot of people don;t know.

(film ??down by the docks?)

PATTI : The eyelid surgery.

DMAE : The eyelid, that always got me. That she was gonna have her eyes?cut.

PATTI: I forgot about that scene!

DMAE: So that she could look more?white.

PATTI: More white?

DMAE: Yeah. And she?s explaining, she?s crying, because they?re going to be split up.

DMAE: Spoiler alert?Later on the couple kill themselves because the military won?t allow them to get married. Hence the name ?Sayonara.?

(film --I look American?)

DMAE: That scene always got me.

(film: -- love her the way she is! I don?t wanna change! Will you tell her I love her mouth and her nose and her ears and her eyes?just the way they are. Tell her if she ever does anything like that I?ll?Girl: I want you be proud of me. I sorry.)

DMAE: That always got me and it makes me cry now because what does that say you know, I mean what does that say. You know, I saw that in the late 60s when it was on TV, and it's like I?m thinking, you know my dad, my mom and the whole feeling of inferiority and all that and just going um?

PATTI: Right

DMAE: Later on they talk about what kind of kids they?re gonna have

PATTI : I remember that scene.

DMAE: And that's Marlon Brando I think saying oh they?re going to be wonderful kids they?re going to be half this, half that and you know?

PATTI: My mother had eyelid surgery, she had it done when I was a kid. And I don?t remember thinking that they looked better or worse, or that she looked any different racially, I don't remember anything like that. What I mostly remember is just that her eyes looked different and that upset me. What happened. And I didn?t put it together, honestly, for a few years. I didn?t understand for a few years, what she had done. Because I started learning about eyelid surgery and how popular it is, you know in Korea, in a lot of other places, and then I just felt really sad thinking about how she had done that. And she couldn't even talk to us about it, she couldn't tell us. I don?t even know if she talked to my father about it, but clearly it was something she really wanted to do?

DMAE: Wow. I never had any conversations like this with anyone when I was growing up. It wasn?t until the 90s that I really talked to people about what this identity thing means. Up until then I just felt like the odd person out?the Secret Asian. Patti and I feel like we?ve lived parallel lives.

PATTI: There were these boys in a white family that lived down the street that used to call us names all the time, and they would call my mother really racist derogatory names and she stood up to them once and the next day they put a snake in the mailbox. Once they put a cross in our front yard and set in on fire. Little things.

DMAE: That?s not a little thing. That?s a hate crime.

PATTI: No, it's not. That?s definitely a hate crime. But I just remember it would be like something every couple weeks maybe or every couple months there would be something. At the time I guess it did seem like a little thing because my parents would just brush it aside.

MUSIC UNDER

DMAE: When you experience racism, you live your life with eyes wide open, seeing it everywhere. And people assume I?m white and say racist or hurtful things around me. A few weeks ago, I had a friend tell me I should meet a friend of hers because she?s like me, no one can tell she?s Asian. I tried to say 'of course you can tell.' And she responded' you can but we can't.'

I know she didn?t mean to hurt me. But it did. That?s how racism works even when unintentional. And these are times I feel like Secret Asian Woman and have to decide if I'm going to have 'the discussion'...only this time I didn't want to hurt my friend's feelings so I tabled it for later discussion which I haven't had. It's getting harder to talk to white friends about this.

Secret Asian Woman used to be angry and accusatory. Now she has to be kinder and gentler because supposedly racism doesn't exist and most people get very defensive and insulted when you speak of it.

MUSIC OUT

PART THREE - BI -- MULTI - AND AMERASIAN

DMAE: In the 80s and 90s there was so much pride blooming as we chose new names for ourselves. While others were Asian American or Chinese American, I tried on biracial and multiracial, and then I met Velina Hasu Houston a playwright and professor at University of California Santa Monica who introduced the word Amerasian to me.

VELINA: The term Amerasian actually was coined by Pearl Buck. And she created it cause she encountered children who were of Japanese and American ancestry and Korean American ancestry who were orphaned after World War II and after the Korean conflict. The term in our media has generally been used to apply to people who are of partial Vietnamese and American ancestry

DMAE: Velina has long felt like an ambassador of race.

VELINA: Sometimes I get tired of people asking me where I'm from, I get tired of being a personal ambassador for multirace. I get tired of being the person who has to educate someone about the world, and particularly because of my ethnic composition being of immigrant Japanese ancestry, and African American and Native American, people particularly whites like to say to me wow, Japanese and black, how could two things be more different? What was that like in your family. And (laughs) and that's the question that tires me the most because the very nature of the question, thinking that two things are so far apart that they could never come together, to me implies a certain kind of shock factor that must have its roots in racism or colonialism or the question would never be asked.

DMAE: Oh the questions?

PART FOUR --THE INTERROGATIONS

DMAE: Here are the things that make Secret Asian Woman have to surface. Someone singing 'We are Siamese' or an accented Ancient Chinese Secret or saying chop chop with a karate move...then I have to figure out what am I going to say?

Uh, excuse me, did you know that comment you made was kind of uh offensive?

And that?s the end of fun for the evening?

You get into all these challenges that just go on with the same questions, the same responses and the defensiveness and the lack of understanding or wanting to understand. Not always. Occasionally you get some people who say, that's cool. But usually it?s a pretty big debate.

PATTI: , I think that from a really early age I internalized this idea that I didn?t belong because I didn?t, I didn?t belong to either group really.

DMAE: Here's Patti Duncan again.

PATTI: And people were constantly making sure that I was aware of that by making comments, by their questions, sometimes by their hostility.
And the way that it felt when I was really young, before I really had the words to articulate it, was just that I was wrong and that was constantly the refrain in my head, I'm wrong, I'm wrong. And maybe a lot of kids feel that way for different reasons, but for me it was always associated with race.

RAIN: I do get sick of being asked the same questions again and again. What are you anyway, where do you come from? What's your mix?

DMAE: This is Rainjita Yang-Geesler in Oakland, California.

RAIN: Sometimes when people ask me I can tell they're objectifying me and sometimes I snap back, I'm from Oakland or where are you from? If it's a connecting thing then I feel energized by it and if it?s coming from a different place like oh we can pick her apart and she?s so interesting, her mom was Korean and her dad was in the Air Force, oh I wonder what happened there. Maybe her mom was a comfort woman or who even knows how she got here--it's a double-edged sword.

PART FIVE - MIXED

DMAE: Rainjita comes from the New Millenium generation who have embraced a name I still have trouble with. After dealing with half this, half that, hapa, AmerAsian and bi and multi racial, I started hearing younger people like Rainjita calling themselves Mixed Race. It brought up old queasy feelings of people discussing the purity of blood and being a mixed breed or mutt. Velina Hasu Houston, who's my generation, had the same response.

VELINA: I prefer the term 'multiracial' because often monoracial people, people who think that they are of a singular race, use the term mixed in a derogatory way, mixed nuts. Mixed up. And I don?t like that because of course it puts a negative connotation on a multiracial identity. The term multiracial, even though it sounds a little more clinical, to me, speaks to the notion of blended race, in a more positive way, so I prefer the term multiracial over the term mixed race.

DMAE: But then I started thinking how the name Mixed Race embraced all mixtures. As Rainjita puts it we?re often bridgewalkers.

RAIN: I feel like I'm put in the middle a lot. Being in the middle of two cultural identities, I was often put as the peacekeeper. I feel like that has been a theme throughout my life to be in the middle and to be grounded in that as a bridgewalkers...being able to go from one side of a culture and be able to be there and not draw a lot of attention and to walk across the bridge and to go to the next culture and I'm okay there too and it seems often that's a comfortable place for me.

DMAE: There are some days I am a bridgewalker and there are some days I just don't feel like blowing my cover. But mostly there are days I have to talk about it and I can't let it go. And I can't be Secret Asian Woman. What's nice now is that there are more people like me. In fact we're one of the fastest growing minorities? Finally more people like me. Do you know how lonely it's been? Maybe if I?d grown up in San Francisco or Hawaii or New York or Chicago..but when you're in rural America there are so few people to talk to.

PART SIX - MIXED RACE DIALOGUE

RAIN: The last time I went back to visit my family, my grandmother who helped raise me. I love her, and she's just one of the most influential people when I was growing up?she still has this view of me, little Oriental who came into the family and we love her and her brother. It's just being 'outside and other.'

DMAE: Like Rainjita, only Mixed Race people can understand getting racism from all sides?even from within your own family.

RAIN: She said the last time we went to see her--she was talking about how my mom and dad met?my mom ended up leaving my family because it was a tumultuous marriage and my grandmother said, well I don't know why they got married in the first place, your father was, your father was going to marry this other woman before he went into the Air Force and while he was away, she got pregnant by another man and she had to get married so she married someone else. When my grandmother met the woman later on and saw her children, she said oh it?s such a shame. The children had blonde hair and they would have fit in this family so perfectly.

DMAE: My grandmother talked about the White woman my dad could have married and even pointed her out to me once at a family reunion. Patti has a family story too.

PATTI: One time one of my white cousins called me a chink and my sister hit him in the head with a little statue, and he had to get stitches and the whole family acted like there was something really wrong with her.

DMAE : Good for her!

PATTI: Yeah, I know. I?m still really proud of her when I think about it. But nobody ever, nobody ever brought up the idea that there was something wrong with him calling me a chink.

DMAE: Julie Thi (TEE) Underhill in San Francisco was too young to realize she was being called a derogatory name from an old 50s film.

JULIE: And that family member had referred to me two times as Suzy Wong?

DMAE: Julie grew up in Texas and Oklahoma and is from an ethnic group called the Cham in Vietnam. Sometimes people don?t realize that it's racist to use names they hear in movies like little geisha, china doll and in this case Suzy Wong from the (1950s movie called) 'The World of Suzy Wong' about a prostitute.

JULIE: And the friend of the family knowing that I have you know that my mom's from Vietnam, she said two times, who are you talking about? And that was my moment of redemption--there was seeing somebody actually even not get the racism because they're not racist. So they actually challenged me being called Suzy Wong by not understanding the reference. And it wasn't obvious to them that of course they're talking about me. It wasn't obvious to the friend of the family that that racism would actually happen against me. And so I stood there watching it you know, unbeknownst to both of them. And I was so proud that someone came to my defence just by being too ignorant as to why that person would be racist to recognize the racism which called the person out got calling me Suzy Wong cos they had to realize it wasn't just self-evident that I was Suzy Wong and it was a healing moment for me as well to have that validated that it isn't just obvious to all white people that I should be called Suzy Wong.

DMAE: You live for those healing moments...when a friend says something that takes away the hurt and accepts you with no questions. For me, I find healing moments when people can tell I?m Asian without having to announce it or explain, or defend or go into the long story of how my parents met. A lot of times, it feels like people want to get the scoop about Suzy Wong. Here?s Rain, Julie and Patti.

RAIN: It's a natural instinct for people to say 'oh they're a product of the war and that means the mother was either raped or you know a prostitute. I think it's just, it?s really hard to get away from that. I know my mom has had to fight against that as well just to be seen as who she is.

JULIE: This one conversation I got into in my 20s with someone who was clearly not valuing what my family has gone through and what I've gone through as a result of war cos she was in her mind assuming that my mother was a prostitute. And that I should even be lucky to be here.

PATTI: Often it's where are you from and you know where are so both parents?

DMAE: (laughs) Which parent, which side?

PATTI. It's often well, she?s so lucky your father rescued her. She got saved.

DMAE: Yeah.

PATTI: Or, she?s so lucky he found her there.

DMAE: Or I get, you?re so lucky he married her. It?s insinuating that there?s no love there, you know.

PATTI: Which is often the assumption, you know, that how, how could be possibly have really loved her, how could he love her.

DMAE: Because she?s Asian

DMAE: You want people to assume your parents fell in love and married just like they assume their parents did. And that Mixed Race kids are wanted and are not tragic accidents from war-torn countries. That you're not a mystery or a puzzle waiting to be deciphered. It's not that you don?t want people to ask you any questions. It's that you want people to think about what they're really asking and how those questions creates a rift a chasm...and then you wonder if you really want to build that bridge to walk out to them.

PART SEVEN ? MULTIETHNIC ME

DMAE: Velina Hasu Houston sums it up for me.

VELINA: As I get older, I have no desire to, I don?t have to I don?t have to explain my race to someone else. It's only they get that you're mixed race, or they don't. And someone's either uncomfortable with multiracial identity, or they aren't. Discursive arguments about the right for multiracial people to claim all of their identities. I'm really beyond that. I don't care, if the ethnic groups of which I am composed, are uncomfortable with multiracial identity, because multiracial identity has been through its movement, and its here to stay, and its on the rise. There are going to be more and more politically conscious, multiracial people who will claim their multiracial identity with pride, and with just as much as right as any monoracial person does, and that's just a fact of US society, and its going to become more and more a fact and a part of the shifting demographics of race in this country over the next 50 years.

DMAE: It's really about acceptance.

MARIS: (NEW) Like I?ll be walking in downtown Portland and I'll see a little girl run by and she has certain facial features but lighter hair than you expect to see and you're like, she's just like me, and you're kind of like I like you. I want to talk to you. And then you see her parents and you go, yeah, I was right.

DMAE: You feel a kinship.

MARIS: I do.

DMAE: And I feel a kinship not just with people who are half Asian but with people who are mixed in general.

MARIS: Yes.

DMAE: Maris Moo-Lay-Lee is of the younger generation. She's a grad student in anthropology in her 20s. She grew up in Portland and is quite proud of her identity.

MARIS: In classrooms, if I look around, and I'm the only one who isn't 100 percent white, I'm going to be a little more vocal about an immigrant's experience or a discussion about diasporas and identity and that sense of self and be kind of that one voice.

DMAE: After living through decades of checking other for my race on questionnaires, it's always a sign of progress to see younger people so proud of their heritage and not accepting any kind of racism.

MARIS: The forces that you're arguing against will stop listening after a certain point and that's where for better or worse I think I've adopted my 'pick my battles' stance because I want to make sure that the battle I choose is a really meaningful one and that it will help and actually cause some impact rather than it being just be another mesquito buzzing. Here they go again, here they go again. They do this every other day.?

DMAE: I had somebody say to be, so Mixed Race is the new cool.?

MARIS: (laughs) We are quite trendy.

DMAE: Have you felt that? Have you heard that? I was just astounded??the new cool???? What does that mean?

MARIS: Maybe it?s that, maybe it's that the people of mixed background are rather than saying I?m not going to try to fit into one of the two or three categories are saying no no this is what I am. I?m a fun mixture and maybe making it more known about that so it becomes its own category.

DMAE: Maris gave me a new name. Multiethnic. I kind of like that?

MARIS: Being in anthropology, you've spent so much time studying about how race is a socially constructed category and ethnicity has more of a base in people?s religious culture and their traditions and where they geographically hail from and much more complex than the racial categorizes than how they look.

DMAE: I like that. Multi Ethnic is M.E. Me?

BOTH LAUGH. MUSIC UP.

DMAE: Okay this is the hardest thing for me to say. We all have racism within us. It isn?t just a white thing. But all the racism I?ve ever experienced has come from White relatives, friends, colleagues or strangers. And I?m angry. This anger drives me to create work that calls attention to that racism. But it?s hard to live with. And as much as I want us all to just get along and tolerate each other, it just isn?t happening fast enough for me and I?m getting older and more tired of dealing with the same hurtful situations, same misunderstandings and the daily decisions of having to make people realize I?m not a Secret Asian. I AM Asian. There.

And it isn?t about trying to make White people feel bad. It?s about trying to carve out your identity and finding community. Things are slowly changing for the better because there are more of us now? straddling several cultures and races. But I?ll continue to go about my day wondering what strange conversation I?m going to get into when I encounter someone who thinks I?m a Secret Asian Woman...

At least I have my theme music?

SECRET ASIAN THEME MUSIC UP

Credits:

Secret Asian Woman was produced and told by M-E
Multi-Ethnic Dmae Roberts

I had Editorial help from Catherine Stifter and damali ayo.

Music for Secret Asian Woman was composed and performed by Clark Salisbury who also engineered the mix of this program. We also heard-- 'All is Well' by Teresa Enrico and Portland Taiko from their ' Big Bang' CD

Thanks to Karen Boylan, Patti Duncan, Rainjita Yang Geesler, Julie Tee Underhill, Maris Moo-lay-lee, and Velina Hasu Houston.

This production was made possible with funding by the Regional Arts and Culture Council?s Individual Artist program and with co production assistance from MediaRites.

To comment on this program email Dmae Roberts @aol.com or visit Stories1st.org to hear and read more about this show and to see a youtube movie of Secret Asian Woman.

I?m Dmae Roberts.

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