Buried deep in the Downtown Eastside, past Main and East Hastings where someone is trying to offload valium, past Powell where low income housing and treatment centres make up most …
Non-Fiction
“From Toronto to Vancouver: Artistic Self-Documentation serves to continually shed hope on Asian-Canadian Stories during Pandemic”
The Quarantine Qapsule (QQ) is a digital archive of the Asian Canadian experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Created in Nightingale Nguyen’s bedroom in Toronto, ON, she wanted to create counter-narratives …
To make rice in a pot, as opposed to the trustworthy rice cooker, is difficult; but not impossible. As my father once taught me: stick a finger down to the …
In Pursuit of the Truth Through Beef Noodle Soup: Can Ethnic Businesses Exist Alongside The Chains?
Along New Westminster’s Columbia Street, you’ll come across an interesting phenomenon. Turn right from Carnarvon, down where red brick buildings stand, and you’ll see a fancy clustering of bridal shops …
Asian American Gold House Book Club Launch that includes Pulitzer Winning Writers and Authors
Gold House, the non-profit collective of Asian and Pacific Islander cultural leaders behind movements like #GoldOpen, is launching its inaugural Book Club on October 1st to uncover and codify Asian …
Yi-shuan (倚旋) was difficult for them to pronounce and mama (媽媽) didn’t want me to stick out more than I already did or spend the rest of my life correcting …
When I turned nineteen, I booked a one-way ticket back home to Hong Kong with the hopes of becoming an English teacher. As an immigrant myself who once struggled with …
In the spring, I would lose my mother to gardens. I, smaller and graceless, would stay inside reading, trying and failing to keep sight of her through the window. Eventually, …
Clifton Hill centers on pathological liar Abby’s return to Niagara Falls after her mother’s death, and follows her obsessive quest to solve the mystery behind a potential kidnapping she witnessed …
Song Lang (2018), directed by Leon Le, is the Vancouver Queer Film Festival’s (VQFF) Opening Gala film this year. Set in 1980s Saigon, the film follows an unlikely friendship between …