Caitlin Taylor So retells the stories her grandpa told her about the Vietnam War, from her perspective as his granddaughter. Reflecting on what these stories mean to her, she connects them to her annual Lunar New Year wishes to her grandparents. She grapples with how it is possible to give back to your elders when they have given you everything.
Boy, Descending
N.H. Van Der Haar wrote this work because he was deeply interested in their Gay Sauna, how it occupies a space in pre-legality homosexual life and how delicate its position can feel in the wider culture of Pride and Melbourne culture.
Kipo: Biraciality and Blackness
A look at how Kipo functions as a multiracial, Black and Asian character in Netflix Original Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.
What Was Barbie Made For?Â
Where does the film, and by extension, the doll, fit into our discussions of feminism, capitalism, and nostalgia?
Why Do Movie Audiences Love Suicide Bombing?
There’s something strange about the way Hollywood celebrates explosive martyrdom.
Life of Pi and Bubble Tea
Life of Pi is a book written by a White Canadian man about a Pondicherry Indian boy which somehow became a Taiwanese icon in 2012.
Breaking The English Haiku Beyond Syllables
Haikus can be so much more meaningful when they are unbound from their syllabic structure
Queen Of The Pulps
Pulp fiction magazines have always teetered between the line of low and high art, and as such are considered fairly niche when it comes to art historical scholarship.
Rubik’s Cube Therapy
There are 43 quintillion possible configurations on a Rubik’s Cube, and only one of those is correct. The cube functions as a distraction from the messiness of the world.