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Music From the Stars - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai
We are all stardust. From the stars all life came, and to the stars all life returns. The question is: what kind of stars will we become?...
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May 25, 20229 min read
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Apr 15, 20220 min read
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The Relativity of Language and Culture - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai
After I say that I grew up bilingual, most people immediately ask me which language I learnt first, a question I don’t know the answer...
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Mar 23, 20223 min read
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Nationalism & Sports—What Governments Can Do to Limit Violent Sporting Habits - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai
According to surveys and studies from Pew Research Centre, a leading American think-tank, high rates of nationalism can still be seen in...
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Feb 23, 20229 min read
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Fairy of Winter Night Sweet - Poem by Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai
As my sandalwood candle goes out wisping smoke into the witching hour I dream of ocean waves. Crashing like lightning, the froth inedible...
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Feb 16, 20221 min read
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Red Dragon - Prose by Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai
I am biased in my love for the spring. The spring brings with it blooming cherry blossoms and cold air that doesn’t cut on its way across...
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Feb 9, 20222 min read
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Prose Feature: Wild Countryside of Childhood Past - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai
With the monkeys tapping on the windows, I grew. In fields of wild grass and scattered boulders, I ran. Under trees, flowers, the...
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Dec 22, 20218 min read
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Short Biography of Rabindranath Tagore - Talha Hasan
Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born on May 7th, 1861. He was born into the...
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Nov 17, 20211 min read
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To Relearn a Language - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai
A native language is a difficult thing to lose. Not difficult in the sense that it is physically hard, but more in the sense of the...
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Nov 10, 20214 min read
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The Cost of Independence - Talha Hasan
15 August 1947. A historical day in the Indian subcontinent. It was the day India gained independence from the British at the cost of...
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Nov 3, 20212 min read
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ISSUE 4 IS OUT NOW!
Issue 4 is finally here! Make sure to check it out on our Issues page and read the amazing work we've been waiting to share with you....
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Oct 15, 20211 min read
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Bitter Truth: Al Qaeda Won the War on Terror - Talha Hasan
11 September 2001. Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. The deadliest terror attack in the history of the world occurred in...
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Oct 6, 20213 min read
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The Art of Queer Coding in Mainland China - Part One: The Untamed - Chiu-Yi Rachel Ngai
Currently in mainland China, there are censorship laws in place that forbid the display of LGBTQ themes in visual media, leading to a...
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Sep 29, 20215 min read
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Poetry Feature: O Kabul - Talha Hasan
O Kabul, What haven't you been through! What misery you didn't face! What sorrows you don't bear! What horrors you don't know! O Kabul!...
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Sep 15, 20211 min read
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How Sustainable is Reading? - Murielle Müller
As my gaze wanders from the news of burning forests to the books on my shelves, I feel a twinge in my heart, and I begin to wonder how...
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Sep 8, 20215 min read
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Prose Staff Feature: Lily of the Red River Valley - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai
They say to never start a story with ‘once upon a time’, but how else would you start one like this? Once upon a time, it was a dark and...
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Sep 1, 20213 min read
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Why Are Disability Rights Not Talked About Among Youth?
Even though I was born into the disability community, I knew nothing about the words “disability rights” until I turned 13. Wanting to...
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Aug 18, 20217 min read
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Review: "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield - Sam Habashy
I recently read the short story “The Garden Party” written in 1922 by Katherine Mansfield alongside How to Read Literature like a...
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Aug 11, 20213 min read
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Why Texting Makes Me Anxious - Murielle Müller
Living alone during a pandemic has made it very hard not to rely on social media and my phone to connect with my friends and family....
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Aug 4, 20213 min read
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Internalised Ableism and Language - Murielle Müller
I didn’t know what internalised ableism meant until I encountered it first-hand. I tried to convince myself that my body had to be able...
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Jul 28, 20214 min read
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