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But Survival Doesn’t Work Like That: On Self-Publishing and Wan Sik Press

Michael Leung shares a note on experiments in self-publishing

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Dailyrium

Shreyasi Pathak considers how temporal dimensions of crip time shape the archive

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In Observance: staying with the body, with Palestine at the United Nations

Tara Fatehi interferes with the rhythm by bringing movement and attention into the archive

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@silvermuon: an avatar, an invitation

Amber Jamilla Musser uses an IG alter ego to explore issues around Black femininity and the terms of representation

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And Yet

Ysabelle Cheung connects apocalyptic narratives and reality tv, bookstore closures and writing workshops, fear and death and community and more

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Book Begins with Beech

Lana Lin explores legacies of imperial naming practices, and the urgency to speak out against injustice

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change the game

Paul C. Fermin writes about states (and stakes) of being through basketball, star trek, and "oceanic feeling"

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Circle of Fifths

Christine Vicera writes about turbulence, holding space, building harmonies, and liberatory modes of thinking and being

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Gifts

Ethan Luk writes about disappearing phone booths, letter writing, daily assemblies, a magnolia alba tree, hotel rooms, and more

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How to Catch a Minnow

Emily Ogden asks how to love in conditions of uncertainty

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I want to name that…

Larissa Pham traces the origins of her unlanguaged feelings, and the process of coming to terms with them

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In Defence of the Dad Joke

Andrea Chu writes about not being funny, and reassures herself about it

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Last night a line appeared

Özge Ersoy meditates on translation, collaboration, and conveying texture and time

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Pokfulam Blues

Holmes Chan reflects on childhood memories of a neighborhood in Hong Kong, amidst more recent luxury property developments

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Sacks and Skins, or a Bag Full of Holes

Summer Kim Lee considers what to carry and what to shed, even in moments of disruption and upheaval

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so close, yet so off

Karen Cheung interrogates the desire to name, and giving yourself permission to write something that feels real

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Sydney's Omelette

Koel Chu reflects on the notion of cooking as labour of love and act of service

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Tell, Don’t Show

Wong Chun Ying reflects on truth, connection, and love, drawing from experiences in film, journalism, restaurants, and art

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The grave in every name, or how else to be a good melancholic?

Kang Kang explores the temporalities and ethics of grief work, and losses that refuse “successful mourning”

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To Float on Open Waters

Mina Wang Zhou reflects on navigating the aquatics of tension