VLOG OF THE THURSDAY IN WHICH YOU GET YOUR U.S. PASSPORT PHOTO TAKEN
"These days, your finsta is only a slideshow of half-blurry photos of the horizon. Telephone poles arching in dark swathes."
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our literature
Eunice Kim
Jan 141 min read
TURING TEST_ANATOMY
"saying girl / girl / girl / girl to a sleek / silver god. i stay ambivalent. bored / and bordered. hyphe-nation. am bivalent."
Mithila Rohit Tambe
Nov 5, 20231 min read
Good Tupperware
"Perhaps he could have created / Tupperware for someone like me. / Then could I have enclosed my rotting, / And shut it away"
Autumn McIntyre
Feb 5, 20238 min read
West District
"West District had a superhero. Because, apparently, superheroes were real. Min would get a headache if she kept thinking about this."
Eric Nhem
Feb 5, 202318 min read
I Accidentally Break The World. Oops
Author’s note: I wrote this piece for a writing contest. We had to write the first chapter of a fantasy story. It could be about whatever...
Eric Nhem
Feb 5, 20235 min read
Thank You DAY
Dear Asian Youth, All good things must come to an end. This will be my last piece for Dear Asian Youth as a member of the writing team....
Eric Nhem
Feb 5, 20237 min read
Not Too Sweet
My Journey with Food and the Five Basic Tastes
Eric Nhem
Feb 5, 20235 min read
Letter to You
You don’t remember me. Why would you? For you, it was just another day at school. For me, it was the day you took my voice. 2017, my...
Eric Nhem
Feb 5, 20232 min read
Wrought With Gold
Listen, dear readers, there once was a story, Filled with magic and marvels and whimsy and wonder, One of trials and hardships, of...
Jennifer Vu
Feb 3, 20232 min read
The Cup of Coffee
A letter expressing my endearment to Vietnamese coffee
Aileen Pradhan
Feb 3, 20232 min read
Dear Baa
A letter to my late paternal grandfather, who I only had the chance to meet once when I visited Nepal 10 years ago...
Eric Nhem
Jan 28, 20237 min read
Mother, Daughter Caretaker
I don’t know how she does it. My mom is a superhero: the Wonder Woman of our family. I’ve always respected her. I mean, how could I not?...
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.
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...
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.”
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.
Chris Fong Chew
Nov 1, 20221 min read
On My Sleeve
My identity is
inseparable from my
culture, inseparable from my
ancestry, inseparable from my
heritage.
Eunice Kim
Oct 26, 20223 min read
crave
Language shift in American immigrants typically occurs after three generations, with the third generation communicating entirely in...
Aubrey Meiling
Oct 20, 20223 min read
American Girl
Assimilation was a vocabulary term I’d only read in history books and therefore only used in essays. It was presented as a prehistoric idea.
Aubrey Meiling
Oct 10, 20221 min read
My lips can move, But cannot speak
[My lips can move, But cannot speak] Wide eyes and yellowed skin Masking the fraud they do not seek Her elusive past lies within [My lips...
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