Episode 508: Erika Hayasaki
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The Myth of Colorblindness
I tried to do that without making people into villains or heroes, certainly not heroes either. That was very much a intention. I think it was something that I came to understand with the girls, with the sisters, through our conversations around identity. But I also came to understand it with my own life. So I was thinking about having a white mother who was raising a child who presented to the world as Asian and like all of the issues that I had with that. And so that was important to me to kind of also structure it in a way that helped you understand this history,. Also, hopefully hold empathy for people in the story, even when they're flawed.
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