Archive - Leah Kim's Substack

Substack, I tried...

Moved everything to my blog and started a Patreon

Apr 26 •

February 2024

Voices on the Side: Joyful Resistance

with Chrissy King

Feb 2 •

January 2024

Voices on the Side: Love, Light, & Liberation

with Ruby Sheng Nichols

Jan 17 •

July 2020

On the Mental Fortitude of Kids

The misinformed outrage of parents who want schools to open full time this Fall

Jul 23, 2020 •

On Quiet Racism

A personal timeline of living outside of White Privilege

Jul 4, 2020 •

April 2020

A Quarantine Ode to Teachers

How We Are Surviving Distance Learning

Apr 29, 2020 •

February 2020

22 Things I’ve Learned as a Mother

Q: Is there anything you’ve learnt as a mother that you’d pass on?

Feb 11, 2020 •

September 2019

I Can See Clearly Now

The Masks that We Wear

Sep 5, 2019 •

August 2019

There’s No Such Thing as Being Protected from Truth

I can count on one hand the number of direct conversations I’ve had with my parents about my mom’s mental illness. These very few conversations were all…

Aug 22, 2019 •

May 2019

An Unlikely Reconciling

Finding My Mother’s Love After Our Darkest Hours

May 20, 2019 •

On the Eve of Mother’s Day

As a daughter of mental illness, I carry with me a profound sadness and pain that I don’t think will ever fully heal.

May 11, 2019 •

April 2019

Reframing an “Unnatural” Birth Story

Healing the guilt and shame over having a C-section.

Apr 2, 2019 •

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