‘[In my] Visual Arts Degree...There was no cultural competency whatsoever. I thought the arts was meant to challenge the status quo! I started asking myself—Why do I care so much? Why do I care about the stories that are left unacknowledged?’
Read More‘Though I admire memoirists very much, and in the glory of the internet age, the personal essayist, I can’t write like them. Yet all my poems are rooted inside my life...’
Read More‘At this year’s Sydney Writers Festival, I spoke about self-determination through literature. After the panel, I got approached by a White woman who asked me what places she should visit in Vietnam and how to pronounce Phở.’
Read More‘Part of me feels like coming out as a trans person has been the easiest part of my whole artistic career.’
Read More‘I’ve gone through many phases of being Chinese-Canadian: curiosity, realisation, ignorance, acceptance, and finally a full and forgiving self-embrace.’
Read More‘We deserve to be happy. We have the right to be seen, and the right to demand to be seen.’
Read More'You can’t be everything to everyone nor should you desire that... sometimes you just have to tune out and run your own race.'
Read More'We have been socialised to think that ‘serious’ philosophy is a white man’s game.'
Read More'I think anyone who has grown up as something of an outsider develops unique ways of viewing the world, other people.'
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