An honest foundation
When I look back at the way I lobbed on a thick layer of eyeliner, I remember the YouTube tutorials of mostly white women with the eyes that I wanted, explaining to me just how …
Asian Heritage Month
Stories, poems and reflections celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
'A tricky place to be': Navigating Canada’s classical music scene with Luka Kawabata
Before doing both his bachelor’s and master’s in opera performance at UBC, Luka Kawabata studied engineering at Queen’s University.
Tower Beach is an underrated refuge
Just east of the Museum of Anthropology, a small slope off the sidewalk lining Northwest Marine Drive leads down to Trail 3 of Pacific Spirit Park.
Stories that Haunt Us: A conversation with Jamie Liew and Lindsay Wong
On April 5, the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration (ACAM) department invited Jamie Liew and Lindsay Wong, two female Asian Canadian writers, to a reading and discussion at the UBC Arts Student Centre.
Asian Heritage Month: The virus known as hate
As an Asian living in a time plagued with anti-Asian hate, I find my emotions heightened.
What it means to be Asian in Vancouver
Being Asian, to me, means knowing at the end of the day that the whole community is there for each other, ready to face the good and the bad side by side.
My name has meaning
Do not mispronounce it. I do not want to correct you twice.
O 观世音 bless my stolen tongue
I can't see myself in the signal's static. I speak but I only hear your cadence. :// Bàba, how do you say this word in Chinese?
Asian-Face
I wish I could tell myself these answers, but identity, no matter what it’s based on is always constructed and deconstructed. Built-up and destroyed.
A Family Meal
I hardly knew some of the people there yet it was, in some comforting, familiar way, its own family meal.
How I will Raise My Kids
You will watch and read content from cultural icons of my time. You will gain a balanced appreciation for the arts to complement your university application and become inspired by the wits of Ali Wong, …
Speaking In Red
Behind my face mask, I felt tomato bits stuck in my mouth. But I couldn’t let anybody know they were there. I had to prove myself through the fluency of my English that I was …
Byelingual
After being in Vancouver for so long, I find myself struggling to tell my mother about my day in Chinese, bogged down by English jargon and unable to explain my studies to my grandmother and …
T&T
The grocery store can’t replace my parents’ cooking or my brother’s sarcasm or my family’s love, but I guess it’s good enough for now.
Toto, I have a Feeling We’re Not in Vancouver Anymore
As the days passed, it became increasingly apparent that we as Asian-Canadians did not belong. I was sporting a Korean-inspired fringe at the time, which seemed to warrant additional attention such as textbook ‘are you …
Things to Read, Watch and Listen To This Asian Heritage Month
Celebrating our culture and history here in Canada and around the world also means celebrating the content and creators who help us to understand ourselves and share our experiences with one another.
Bloodlines
The TV was running, but I opted for the window, self-centred songstress, monsoon sister.
