A Hong Kong Story: Why Is it So Difficult to Tell?
Leung Ping-kwan (Yasi) traces representations of Hong Kong through film, art, and theatre to examine its seemingly elusive identity
Essays
Lyrical Theorising
Yaniya Lee reflects on Jackie Wang and a life of poetry
Essays
Ghosts from Underground Love
Laura Nys writes about young women exchanging love letters in a juvenile reformatory, and how the dilemma between privacy protection and rendering visibility is addressed by the art of Lam Wong
Essays
On Transcription
Samira Bose examines the figure of the transcriber through the TV show Mindhunter, Lacan’s stenotypist, and her own experiences in magazines and archives
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The More Loving One
Jimin Kang on translation as a protracted, recurring, and painful process comparable to love
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A Pedagogy of Unwellness
Mimi Khúc interrogates the myth of meritocracy, ableism in the academy, and mental health's insistence on wellness
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today, tomorrow, and the day after that
Andrea Chu writes about slice of life, everyday routines, and other kinds of stories
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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 crip time shapes 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
