It’s an interesting quirk of Australia’s personality: we are a nation of immigrants, yet each wave wants to be the last ones in. After leaving...
Australian Booty: The Fatty-Boom-Boom Remix
May 10, 12 • Featured, Headline, Reviews • No Comments »Candy B is back! Re-working material from last year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival performance of Australian Booty, Candy’s revamped Australian Booty: The Fatty-Boom-Boom Remix deserves a standing ovation. Candy B is...
Jennifer Wong in “Ouch and Other Words”
Apr 19, 12 • Headline, Reviews • No Comments »We walked in about 5 minutes late to Jennifer Wong’s opening to Ouch and Other Words. Jennifer, however, didn’t miss a beat and welcomed us with “Oh, welcome, you’ve missed the best part of the show”,...
Why I have a queue.
Mar 16, 12 • Fashion, Headline • No Comments »Last week my hair was shoulder length, straight, black, with a red streak to the left (something like my political orientation, then). I wanted to cut it short, partly for one of the acts I’m performing this...
Comparing Asian-Australians and Asian-Americans
Nov 14, 11 • Culture, Headline • 8 Comments »It’s only natural for those of us interested in Asian-Australian issues to keep abreast of what is happening with our cousins on the other side of the Pacific. Partly it is due to the American cultural juggernaut,...
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Australian Booty: The Fatty-Boom-Boom Remix
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Jennifer Wong in “Ouch and Other Words”
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Racism and attraction: yellow fever, pity fucks and he’s...
At the risk of mentioning Jet Li in two consecutive blog posts, I watched Romeo Must Die again the other day. I’d last watched it...
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Racism and the many different Australias
Once in a while in the media or in conversation, you’ll hear someone ask this question: Is Australia a racist country? Dr Charlie Teo made news...
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Why I have a queue.
Last week my hair was shoulder length, straight, black, with a red streak to the left (something like my political orientation, then). I wanted to...
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Eating styles
Bringing food to one’s mouth is one of the most basic fundamental actions of human existence, but throughout history we have come up with various...
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Not femme, just Asian: my nerd gender.
I read a version of this last week for Queer Nerd, a Midsumma event curated by Lisa-Skye. There’s a lot more I could say about how East Asians...
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On looking racially ambiguous
I’m one of those people who in ethnic terms doesn’t quite look like one thing or the other. It doesn’t bother me, of course, but this ambiguity...
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5 Asian-related things I read in 2011 that you...
I confess, I haven’t been much of a book reader since high school. In my university days, I became obsessed with music and so song lyrics...
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