Featured Image: Wall Street Journal Hurt you – lying? think not. sure, I mean, what? – not batter lids. silent! – fair, battered lids: drip true does not mean, what? sure, true – for me, never you.
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All articles filed in THE ARTS
Mermaid
“Mermaid” is my frustration with the poetry community. As a poet, I should not have to write about all the ways I’m repressed and mistreated to satiate a vicarious readership.
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The Problem with “Yellow Fever” and the Sexual Fetishism of Asian American Women in Film
Featured Artwork: LA Johnson Throughout cinematographic history, the young Asian American woman has been misrepresented. Asian Americans were nearly nonexistent in classic Hollywood; the industry often ignoring Asian issues, characters, and actors. However, as films began to include Asians, not only were actors sought after to play people from an Asian country (not as Asian Americans), but…
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Imperialism
On the fiery fields of Anatolia, She hears the shrill yell of her countrymen. Lead from another land with the ochre and sand.
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Hairbrushed
Featured Artwork: Louisa Cannell When I was younger, my mother used to brush my hair in the early morning sunlight I can remember standing on the chilled, tiled floor of our impossibly small bathroom and being entranced by the specks of dust playing and dancing in the beams of a new day Hard, stiff bristles…
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Tender L{H}umens
Featured Image: Kevin Lamarque for Reuters Their beds, the center of our universe, seeded only a few years back. In their lumens, a silent thunder of embodied bickering — a rare storm for such tender tributaries. Inflamed tempers. Regretful tendernesses. The fairytale ending of nightmares naked-faced protestors blindly write. inspiration: “15 Children Are Hospitalized With…
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Thoughts From Asian Artists in Europe During COVID-19
As stilted as this may sound, this Lunar New Year was marked by the COVID-19 outbreak for my family. My mother took one of the last planes from Beijing back to Paris, while my grandmother was to stay home indefinitely. As they gathered as much information as they could at the dawn of the epidemic,…
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Pan[dem]ic
Featured Image: Lindsey Wasson for Reuters You are a mental patient with a Master’s degree and an absentee ballot Driving at 80 miles an hour the wrong way home to escape the killer in the air You chew, swallow and wash down what you still don’t know you need Seeing angels drift down to take…
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Find Me
Featured Artwork: KwangHo Shin Find me in those torn up pages filled with empty words sitting at the bottom of my drawer. Find me in those empty boxes of paint and the overused bristles of a thick brush. Find me in the sweets that stay snuggled within your already heavy pockets, ever ready to land…
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