Mengyu Dong sits down with MOCA to discuss her work documenting the Black Lives Matter protests and presenting them to a Chinese audience through WeChat. As a journalist and photographer, Dong started following the Black Lives Matter movement shortly after moving to Washington D.C. and witnessing the protests that erupted in response to the death of George Floyd. In publishing her photo essay that featured stories from Chinese and Chinese American activists, she wanted to challenge the misinformation spreading in the Chinese social networks and initiate a conversation with family members on racism and racial justice. Her photos helped convey the emotionality and intersectionality of the movement. Dong also reflected on how her understanding of racism and inequality has evolved in the years since emigrating to the United States at the age of eighteen. She expressed the need for the Asian community to adjust their assumptions of the country as a champion of equality and to understand the underlying problems within society. She described how anti-Asian hostility fueled by the pandemic coupled with the social uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement have produced a sense of urgency and empathy among members of the Asian community who are coming to realize that they have a stake in speaking out and improving their society. Dong stressed that despite antagonism between countries, between abstract ideals, between political struggles, between leaders vying for power, ordinary people still have the appetite for human stories and the desire to connect with each other on a human level.