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🇹🇼🇰🇷♌ ‘93 🌱 smol, angry, creative✨ nyc
work: @nytimes | union: @nytimesguild
creative: @art.chichang | @eastsidestoriesnyc

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#colorado recap 🦌🏔️
spent two weeks visiting 📍#rockymountainnationalpark 📍#aspen 📍#ouray and everything in between
thank you for the beautiful time 🫶🏼 protect our parks

#hiking #coloradohiking #colorado #travel #roadtrip #nationalpark #nationalforest taken in Rocky Mountains, Colorado by @chichaaang

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a year ago

this is the year i made peace with all the inner children / inner teenagers, inner whatever’s — “get angry, if you must, get so angry you kill very piece of you that you hate” has been a life saving mantra that has kept me going throughout my young adulthood.

i’m now 33 and im reexamining my relationship with my emotions: all this anger used to be love, and all this love used to be anger. i spent a lot of time and energy burning away the decay and rot, and now i am ready to grow something new. i’ve started having dreams again— and nightmares.

i’ve been terrified this year. i’m often in over my head. this year i solo-coordinated 35 youth volunteers at a kids summer camp. this year i am serving my union and bargaining for a new contract. i am still trying to reclaim parts of my life that were discarded during chronic illness and i am still trying to find the pieces of me that are brave underneath all the fear. this is the hardest i’ve worked on myself in a long time and it feels euphoric. i feel really alive.

i’m still angry, all these years later— but now i’m more dangerous than before. cultivating revolutionary optimism and resilience will help me and help my community. i am still terrified but i am brave. the world can be cruel and scary, and the things i want require that i grow some fucking balls and go for it. i got that dawg in me.

i want it all, i deserve it all, im being asked to do more and i can do it all. i’m the answer to my own prayers. im the one who can arrange it for me.

here is to 33 🫶🏼 #birthday #travel #friendship #reel #recap taken in New York, New York by @chichaaang

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2 months ago

born in queens, queens is on an island, i grew up on the island (long), im an island girl basically (nyc is just an archipelago).

what a once in a lifetime trip @irischichang 🙏🏼 congratulations on your new job, may we have many sister trips celebrating each other 🥹

#turksandcaicos #turksandcaicosislands #gracebay #travelling #travel taken in Turks And Caicos by @chichaaang

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6 months ago

these get their own post
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#joshuatree #joshuatreenationalpark #yuccavalley #california #roadtrip taken in Yucca Valley, California by @chichaaang

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6 months ago

✌🏼 till next time
#joshuatree #yuccavalley #joshuatreenationalpark #california #roadtrip taken in Joshua Tree, California by @chichaaang

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6 months ago

i’m trying to do big things this year. my health is finally in a stable place; i’m getting reinvolved with my community organizations; i’ve moved boroughs; i’m taking on roles and responsibilities that i’ve unconsciously been avoiding—

i’m trying really really hard to find me. i’m spending more time present in my body than i have over the last 5 years; in a way i feel like i’m getting to know myself again. but I’m different now. my body is 32, almost 33.

i don’t usually plan for the future. insert corny comment about “how i didn’t expect to make it this far / last this long.” i realize now though that somehow along the way, despite rotting in misery, despite being distant, despite my own self sabotaging tendencies:

i did plant some seeds for the future. and they’re flowering now. i’m thankful to the folks who poured water from their cups to fill mine when i wasn’t able to. thankful for family who protected me when i was wilting. thankful for the earth continuing to spin while i rested, always giving me a new day to try again.

it’s year of the fire horse and i plan on working myself like a horse.
but it’s good to stop and smell the roses every now and then too 🥺🫶🏼

#california #bigsur #bigsurcoast #highway1 #roadtrip taken in Big Sur, California by @chichaaang

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6 months ago

definitely an experience i will never forget 🏔️ #colorado #estespark #rockymountainnationalpark #elk #elkrut #rut taken in Estes Park, Colorado by @chichaaang

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a year ago

😌✨🫶🏼 spending my last week of summer with the sea, closing out #leoszn with sunsets.

HAGS ✌🏼

#capecod #dennisma #summer taken in Cape Cod by @chichaaang

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a year ago

video evidence of how much i love america / a @nationalparkservice tribute.

(( i still envision a future where native stewardship flourishes ))

protect the parks 🙏🏼

#nationalpark #archesnationalpark #glaciernationalpark #mountrainier #craterlakenationalpark #olympicnationalpark taken in Glacier National Park by @chichaaang

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2 years ago

it’s officially the new year 🫶🏼
thank you for letting us celebrate the #yearofthesnake with you #brooklyn & #queens 🎉🧧❤️
love u @awakenlionny 🦁

#chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #flushing #8thave #nyc #newyorkcity #liondance #liondancing #awakenlionny taken in New York, New York by @chichaaang

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2 years ago

i barely took any photos of myself and barely left my apt in 2024 bc of severe eczema but now i have dupixent in my veins, tretinoin in my pores, and a ton to make up for in 2025 🫶🏼

but it’s a nice reminder to see that despite most of my days being painful, there were some good days 🥹 so appreciative to all of my friends for being understanding and kind and patient while i got my health together.

TY to my dermatologist, i love u

#2025 #newyear #california #taiwan #selfie taken in New York, New York by @chichaaang

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2 years ago

it was a really hard 2024. my first year of my 30s was truly a love letter goodbye to my past self. my health took me down for most of the year, and i really struggled with the self imposed isolation i put myself under. my world shrunk so fast, it got so small, it almost suffocated me.

pluto is now aquarius. this past year, i was forced to circle back to finally face the most painful, shameful, and challenging demons that i created myself throughout my life.

spent the whole year fighting myself, for myself, and i think I’m on the other side now, finally, as 2024 closes.

i have my health. i have my friends. i have my family. i have my faith. i cannot lose. i will dismantle every barrier in my way. i will see past the illusions. i’ll listen for my own voice within the chaos.

i never thought id make it here, i can’t stop now.

see yall in 2025 🫶🏼

#nye #2024 #happynewyear #travel #friendship #nationalparks #belize #taiwan #california #northcarolina #2025 taken in New York, New York by @chichaaang

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