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 …
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“From Toronto to Vancouver: Artistic Self-Documentation serves to continually shed hope on Asian-Canadian Stories during Pandemic”
by Allan Cho
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 …
i. the fruit of a certain tree is sour, and softly sweet. it emerges half-made feral on a bed of rich earth sugar is a quiet home for bees. the …
Anna sat on the old barstool, propping her elbows on the counter and swinging her legs back and forth as her mother cut rice flour dough into flat squares. Mama …
Excerpts from Reimagining ChinaTOwn: Speculative Fiction Stories from Toronto’s Chinatown(s) in 2050. (Preface by Linda Zhang) What would it look like for Chinatown to thrive instead of just survive? Who …
He was walking briskly along the travelator, pulling his suitcase behind him, when the thought appeared in his mind—what if it were possible to determine the exact date of our …
This is how it may start to end, round of applause for the chief exec to exit, quaintly hugging in a photo op her family, handshake, flowers. There is no …
Don’t call them dogs. Protest is merely a sound for ears that must stay deaf for those who feed above. They are more bothersome, just as you are bothersome as …
Tin Yuet, Sky Joy, also a public estate building’s name: meals by good friends’ parents always make you doubt if yours have been serving you the right recipes. We ate …
The graduation ceremony had to end early, the chancellor left with guards. Students held signs in black gowns, saying, “You can’t kill us all.” How do we live up to …