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Interview: Serena Song

Stories by culturelitandartadminJanuary 4, 2021January 4, 2021

Stories by culturelitandartadminDecember 27, 2020January 4, 2021

Introduction Luwa is a 17- year old singer-songwriter who plans on letting out music that best translates who she is, what she feels, and what she sees in the current moment. The budding artist sees music as an expressive tool and doesn’t confine herself to a single genre. Her desire to explore different sounds can […]

Stories by Supriya ChangOctober 26, 2020October 26, 2020

Morena (Supriya Chang)

Since elementary school in the early 2000s, I was taught that America was “the melting pot of the world.” While over 70% of the population is white, it seemed natural to me that there were a multitude of skin tones, hair textures, and eye shapes. After all, I had a darker complexion than everyone else […]

Stories by Supriya ChangSeptember 25, 2020

Middle of Nowhere (Supriya Chang)

Growing up, my parents tried to teach me that I was special, that my unique mix of races was something to embrace and cherish. And for a while, I felt that way. I liked my voluminous hair and my macchiato skin tone. I loved eating warm chapatis smothered in mango jam, kalbi wrapped in fresh […]

Stories by Supriya ChangSeptember 12, 2020September 25, 2020

Food ⇌ Love (Supriya Chang)

I think of the relationship between food and love as an equilibrium reaction. Both the forward reaction, food creating love, and the reverse reaction, love being displayed through food, occur simultaneously. Although I wasn’t necessarily taking chemistry at the time, my experience with my grandmother and her cooking has inspired this thinking. My halmeoni immigrated […]

Original Work by adriennechaconJune 17, 2020July 21, 2020

The Russian Doll (Adrienne Chacon)

I imagine myself as a Russian doll. There are several layers beneath the one I present to the world, many thoughts constituting one mind. When I am put together, sitting on a shelf, ready for eyes to see me – I am one face concealing many. I am not the traditional Russian doll, I do […]

Stories by Supriya ChangJune 16, 2020July 21, 2020

My Home, My Happiness (Supriya Chang)

For the past year, when someone would ask me where I would most want to be at that moment, I’d say A Coruña. The cozy apartment I stayed in with my host family for a five week summer abroad program, the warm beaches where the waves glimmer and the sand falls through my fingers, the […]

Stories by oriJune 15, 2020July 21, 2020

Confusion, but words (Orilea Wang)

For the past few months, the world had been at a standstill. The virus had taken a world tour and what had once been the butt of all jokes was now a pretty serious subject. Most people hid away into their homes, hiding behind doors and screens, fitting their world into a box. Tuition fees […]

Stories by flooflezJune 13, 2020July 21, 2020

Reminisce (Max Ta)

I remember whenever we were outside, Ho Chi Minh City had this particular atmosphere which I can’t really describe. I was too young to really understand how much this place meant to my father, my family and me. It was familiar, people’s faces not too different from mine, an intertwined mix of city life and […]

Stories by unikang1April 29, 2020July 2, 2020

COVID-19, from Hong Kong.

I am a high school student studying in Hong Kong. Today is my last day of Easter break, and online class resumes tomorrow (April 20th) – but despite being grateful that our school is able to provide an abundance of resources to assist our learning, I am dreading it. I still remember the day where […]