As two authors/playwrights exploring this small island on the East Coast of Canada, we write to share our own experiences and perspectives.
Through these reflections on heritage, I delve into being a child of parents who immigrated from the Bronx to a suburban lifestyle.
In this piece, a queer university student from China reflects on his understandings of sexual and ethnic/national identities as he moves from China to the UK to study.
In this final installment, I recount my second month dieting with Roland Barthes.
Emerging Immigrant’s Accents is about how language impacts our self image as we come to understand ourselves and our cultural beings.
The essay tells the story of the author's attempt to bridge the gap in political beliefs between himself and his uncle.
It recounts vignettes of my’s dad’s life, his final week, the deep bond with family and friends and the ease with which he let go of life.
This work addresses the issue of young women being underserved as health care patients, specifically through the lens of medical gaslighting.
This is from the experience of losing someone who you thought would be a part of your family, only to realize their journey was different.
It grew out of my personal experience researching Black history museums; but in reality, it began a lot earlier, maybe before I was born.
I share real world examples of why I believe the trans community uses empathy as a powerful tool to combat transphobia and promote self-love.
This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.