Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Essays    Reportage    Marginalia    Interviews    Poetry    Fiction    Videos    Everything   
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On learning to navigate the experiences and biases that we bring into the classroom, whether teacher or student.

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My mom and I share a common language in food. Even at the peak of our most destructive and explosive fights, we would pause to eat together.

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I remember being wet about 85 percent of the time while making wine.

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If fish stocks continue to decline, people all over will be disconnected from their ancestors, their history, the founding mythology of their people.

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Han Kang writes between death and life

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Feeling invasive in Long Island

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The climate is changing. Should our cultural recipes change too?

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On translating Li Qingzhao

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Oscar yi Hou doesn’t represent you.

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Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?

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The avant-garde video artist created autobiographical work that dares you to look closer.

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With stops in Kashmir, Libya, and the United States

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What the mysterious images of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s seminal work might tell us about her life.

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In the Chinatown of my mother’s youth, everyone knew everyone.

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Tending to a garden in Taiwan.

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How do we care for our children and the environment?

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Our clocks simply don’t chime the same tune

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Recalling the promise of anticolonial internationalism

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On learning to navigate the experiences and biases that we bring into the classroom, whether teacher or student.

Essays

Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?

Essays

My mom and I share a common language in food. Even at the peak of our most destructive and explosive fights, we would pause to eat together.

Essays

The avant-garde video artist created autobiographical work that dares you to look closer.

Essays

I remember being wet about 85 percent of the time while making wine.

Essays

With stops in Kashmir, Libya, and the United States

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If fish stocks continue to decline, people all over will be disconnected from their ancestors, their history, the founding mythology of their people.

Essays

What the mysterious images of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s seminal work might tell us about her life.

Essays

Han Kang writes between death and life

Essays

In the Chinatown of my mother’s youth, everyone knew everyone.

Essays

Feeling invasive in Long Island

Essays

Tending to a garden in Taiwan.

Essays

The climate is changing. Should our cultural recipes change too?

Essays

How do we care for our children and the environment?

Essays

On translating Li Qingzhao

Essays

Our clocks simply don’t chime the same tune

Essays

Recalling the promise of anticolonial internationalism

Essays

Oscar yi Hou doesn’t represent you.