Katya Roxas is a Communications and Design Strategist at the University of British Columbia. Katya has experience with branding, content creation, and social media and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia Arts, specializing in graphic design and illustration, and a … more »
Lay Hoon aka Arty Guava is an Illustrator and Graphic Designer based in Vancouver. She grew up in Malaysia and spent most of her adult life in Singapore before moving to Canada. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Bioengineering but … more »
Wendi Ma is an Illustrator and Designer based in Vancouver. Born in China, raised in Tokyo and Vancouver, she developed her interest in sharing her worldview and experiences as a person with cross-cultural background through art. Fluently speaking three languages, … more »
Or so the collective chant goes,
but no, ideas are not bulletproof,
they can be usefully forgotten.
What did you do a month ago?
Truth is, I want you to be safe,
want you to sleep so I can sleep.… more »
Don’t betray me,
his brow suggests
behind a covering.
I offer him a beer
as reconciliation,
which he refuses
in the presence of
cops. It’s not illegal
to drink publicly here,
I should mention.
I have sketched out
a park … more »
Kyla Yin James (she/they) is an illustrator and designer based on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh lands (Vancouver, Canada). Their work is inspired by subcultures, sociopolitical systems, the unconscious, as well as their mixed heritage. Through their practice, Kyla explores
Trigger warning: eating-disorder behaviours – continued from Part Two
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“Do you want to go to Tita Baby’s house?” My mother asked.
I didn’t want to go. But it wasn’t acceptable to stay home all day eating while lying down … more »
Tiffany Royrock is an artist based in Vancouver, BC. Her work merges traditional Western art with a neon palette inspired by her Japanese youth. She’s always making something because if she stops there’ll be a worldwide catastrophe for the cast … more »
The mysterious death of Elisa Lam has been solved according to a documentary that was released in 2021. Through detective work, and with some assistance from internet forums, retired police detectives, coroners, and a forensic neuropsychologist, the Netflix documentary series, … more »
Todd Wong has been blogging about cultural fusion and Asian-Canadian history since 2004. He is active in the literary, arts, and dragon boat communities of Vancouver and is a fifth-generation, Chinese-Canadian, head tax descendant. Known globally as the creator of … more »