Writing was the creative outlet that reconnected me to the joy of living and enabled me to find a sense of peace without my dad — When I was around nine, my dad gave me a little red journal. At the time, I liked to sketch a lot, which is why he gifted it to me. I don’t think he expected me to write in it. I filled all 60 odd pages with my first story. …

After watching Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You last year, I started to analyse some of my own precarious sexual experiences in the past. When I came to the conclusion that I had in fact been sexually assaulted, I opened up about it. …

“But veganism is an eating disorder!” snorted the fossil-fuel tycoon. “How can something that makes me feel so good be bad for me?” asked the heavy-hearted vegan. “I dunno,” continued the tycoon, now red in the face. “I’ve never done anything that made me feel good, as such.” The vegan…

There’s no gay rulebook. My god have some of us wished there was! For most queer people, high school is one of the most terrifying experiences we go through. …

Growing up, my favourite foods were all Jamaican. The flavour of the food can speak for itself, but I’ve always known that there’s more to why we end up loving certain foods over others. For me, the mental link I envisage when I think about the Caribbean food I love…

“Are you even allowed to be gay in China?” You’d be surprised how many times I’ve heard questions like this. Often, when people find out that I lived in China for a while, they’re shocked that I chose to go there at all. The country has a pretty dark reputation…

Do I still Get to Talk about Racism? — “You’re only half-black. Why do you care so much about racism?” A friend once said that to me. We argued for a while; I got over it. But it made me dig deeper into how white folks perceive mixed-race people. In some scenarios, mixed-race people are not given full recognition…

Migration can’t be pinned down to a handful of factors. The process requires so many agents and actors, that it is befuddling. In East Asia, migration remains a complex issue. …

In China today, the continuous, intra-provincial exodus of migrants constitutes the largest flow of moving bodies in the world. Under Mao, Chinese citizens were bound to their danwei, or work unit, which ensured that people worked close to their place of birth. Along with the restructuring of this, and the…