Tish Melton

Hello.

Hello.

Hello.

Thank you so much. Oh my gosh. Thank you for starting the conversation. Of course.

Thank you so much. Oh my gosh. Thank you for starting the conversation. Of course.

Thank you so much. Oh my gosh. Thank you for starting the conversation. Of course.

Speaking of your mother, so she came to your first reading and I think one of the stories you've told was how afterwards you came up to her and she was crying and she said she was just so happy to see all these old white people clapping for you, just standing up and listening to you.

Speaking of your mother, so she came to your first reading and I think one of the stories you've told was how afterwards you came up to her and she was crying and she said she was just so happy to see all these old white people clapping for you, just standing up and listening to you.

Speaking of your mother, so she came to your first reading and I think one of the stories you've told was how afterwards you came up to her and she was crying and she said she was just so happy to see all these old white people clapping for you, just standing up and listening to you.

Could you tell us about that night and maybe just what it was like to experience this mother-son relationship, particularly so tied with your work as well?

Could you tell us about that night and maybe just what it was like to experience this mother-son relationship, particularly so tied with your work as well?

Could you tell us about that night and maybe just what it was like to experience this mother-son relationship, particularly so tied with your work as well?

It's very interesting. I'm only a quarter Japanese, so sometimes I do some self-gaslighting and wondering how much I've actually experienced. And so there's that, which is, of course, also very complicated. But I don't know. It's really interesting. I think...

It's very interesting. I'm only a quarter Japanese, so sometimes I do some self-gaslighting and wondering how much I've actually experienced. And so there's that, which is, of course, also very complicated. But I don't know. It's really interesting. I think...

It's very interesting. I'm only a quarter Japanese, so sometimes I do some self-gaslighting and wondering how much I've actually experienced. And so there's that, which is, of course, also very complicated. But I don't know. It's really interesting. I think...

There was a lot of forgetting in our family with just assimilation, which I feel like is something that is essentially not pursuable in the end. I just remember very subtle playground stuff that would kind of be repressed and then would come up in certain memories. And then I would remember, oh, that was racist or that was a violent act.

There was a lot of forgetting in our family with just assimilation, which I feel like is something that is essentially not pursuable in the end. I just remember very subtle playground stuff that would kind of be repressed and then would come up in certain memories. And then I would remember, oh, that was racist or that was a violent act.

There was a lot of forgetting in our family with just assimilation, which I feel like is something that is essentially not pursuable in the end. I just remember very subtle playground stuff that would kind of be repressed and then would come up in certain memories. And then I would remember, oh, that was racist or that was a violent act.

Actually, only really recently have I, I think, given myself the space to understand that fully.

Actually, only really recently have I, I think, given myself the space to understand that fully.