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Featured Collections
Queer Asian-American Literature
Stories capturing the queer Asian-American experience--a genre invested in the intersection of two inherently destabilizing identities.
Conversation Starters
Stories that contain compelling 'what-if' scenarios and confounding dilemmas to discuss.
girlhood 🎀
growing up and getting old, penned by and personal to the female experience
multigenerational stories
expanding upon the uni generational perspective, these multigenerational stories bring together a number of perspectives (across different family members and temporal backdrops) to conjure rich and and nuanced "life lessons."
Family Ties, or Complexities of Asian-American Lineage
Bowls of cut fruit, broken mother tongues, Chinatowns here and there: on learning how difficult it is to love.
Linguistics + Sci-Fi
In my Fall 2023 semester, I was part of a small directed reading class I loved. The theme was linguistics and science fiction. Here are some of the stories we read, as well as others that relate to the theme.