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Avishi Gupta
Jan 15, 20234 min read
My Body Belongs to the Liberal State:
Decoding the Politics of Control Embedded in India’s Liberal Abortion Laws
Avishi Gupta
Jan 15, 20235 min read
Female Gaze and Imagination
The Use and Abuse of Fanfictions
Chris Fong Chew
Jan 10, 20231 min read
老鬼 (Old Ghost)
This piece experiments with memory and the concept of epigenetic memory, where memory is passed though generation.
Vedaharshita Kolipakula
Jan 9, 20231 min read
limerence
"there are plenty of fish in the sea / their lustrous scales shimmer brightly"
Eunice Kim
Jan 9, 20231 min read
Summer Of
Revisiting my experiences with summer, touching on themes of innocence and childhood
Angel Anjie Liang
Jan 9, 20231 min read
松柏后凋 (The pine and the cypress are the last to wither)
“Chengyu” are typically four character Chinese proverbs that have stories tied to them. I grew up learning and memorizing them during Sat...
Sukriti Sinha (Shea)
Jan 9, 20231 min read
dandelions
these lies will keep you alive
for a night or maybe two
until the seeds disperse along the settled soil
that will soon be the grave of yo...
Aubrey Meiling
Jan 9, 20233 min read
Our Prince Charming
It's possible. 25 years ago, on November 2nd, 1997, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella premiered on TV. In the past, there were many adap...
Mithila Rohit Tambe
Jan 9, 20231 min read
Humidity
"Our strides are parallel. The clouds / are as white as hanboks, / and we are shocked / by the insanity of breathing."
Aubrey Meiling
Jan 9, 20233 min read
Choosing the Dream
“In China, you take care of your family. In America, you take care of your dream.”
Emma Wong
Jan 9, 20232 min read
Dirge for an Immigrant
A poem about the constant burning of California's (and elsewhere's) Chinatowns. From Antioch (1876) to San Jose (1887) to Santa Ana (1906...
Emily Dissanayake
Jan 9, 20231 min read
Boyish
It sounds a little mundane, but I want to try to turn a few moments at the barber into something significant. I cut my hair short, which ...
Anuva Chowdhury
Jan 9, 20232 min read
the rain is afraid of you too.
in this monsoon, the climate is scared in the way of something that’s changing too quickly. where our hands tear its hair out and it spin...
Jennifer Vu
Jan 9, 20234 min read
AP Statistics Changed My Narrative
I know I’m not the only one who feels like this, as AP Calculus AB tested everyone’s math performance. Kumon set me up for the class quit...
Chloe Lee
Jan 9, 20232 min read
she is mortal
though perhaps, the gift of life
is its fleetingness;
perhaps it is our mortality that is most beautiful
Dear Asian Youth
Dec 8, 20222 min read
Our Favorite Nostalgic Childhood Movies
"Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, While You Were Sleeping, Matilda..."
Allyana Honosutomo
Dec 1, 20222 min read
The “Batik” Polemic at the 2022 G20 Bali Summit
The 2022 G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, was successfully held on November 15–16, 2022 and marked the end of President Joko Wido of...
Khadeejah Khan
Nov 30, 20222 min read
Indonesia Struck By 5.6 Magnitude Earthquake
Indonesia’s West Java Province was struck by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake during the afternoon of Nov. 21, 2022, with at least 268...
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
Nov 22, 20223 min read
californification
You will have a conversation with your mother, sitting in between hot-white slats of ladled sunlight, about coming-of-age.
Jennifer Vu
Nov 21, 20222 min read
Gujarat Bridge Collapse
On the evening of October 30, 2022 following recent renovations, the Gujarat Bridge along the Machchhu River collapsed, plunging many...
Elisha-Grace King
Nov 17, 20223 min read
"And the prize goes to...": Nobel and Bias in Accolades
Every laureate receiving the Prize in 2022 is white, including only two women out of the eleven (non-organization) winners...
Sehar Mehmood
Nov 12, 20223 min read
Let me tell you about reparations
But it is hard to accept this as the only form of reparation. Through the gaze of those who have felt the legacy and trauma of colonialism,
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