An introduction to Vancouver — It’s time to talk about housing, because housing is about how we as a society conceptualize living. Because how and where we live is 100% related to the climate crisis and climate justice. Because the houses we build today are still going to be standing 50 years later. This is…

A poem — Let me spend my summers on trains watching the countryside go by Let me cross brick bridges and then walk underneath them Hold my hand as we walk this evening in a strangely familiar place where the air is just thick enough to keep us warm For now, let the pressure of home evaporate from our skin like sweat in the breeze I miss you already.

How to change big systems. — “Companies are actually responsible for carbon emissions so I’m just going to use plastic straws and bags because my impact doesn’t actually make a difference “First-past-the-post is broken and my vote doesn’t actually matter.” “The prison/non-profit/political/whatever industrial complex exists so there’s nothing we can do that won’t just perpetuate the…

Off days exist. You’re allowed to have shit days with no good reason. Sometimes you wake up and you already know that the day ahead is going to be a dark tunnel to drag yourself through until your head hits the pillow again. And that’s okay, even if there’s no…

Burnaby, BC through a context of neoliberal identity — Last month I had the opportunity to sit on a panel with Burnaby Beacon with the lovely Antonia Beck and Andy Yan to discuss Burnaby’s identity, and it got me thinking about city identity. What makes up how we think about cities and why does it matter? Although place-based identity…

Celebrating Asian Heritage Month — I want to tell you about what it means to be an Asian settler living in Vancouver. And at the junction between Asian Heritage Month and Pride Month, I want to tell you about the intersection between being queer and Asian. I want to tell you. But I can’t, because…

Carly Rae Jepsen’s new single Western Wind reminds us to lean into love, even in the smallest things. — California, it crossed my mind Once, we were pressed into the — Love, we were pressed into the breeze up on the mountain I was by your side What are westerlies? The main focus of Western Wind revolves around western winds, but what are they? Westerlies are prevailing winds that blow from the…

I’m trying this new thing when I feel stressed or anxious. Sometimes when everything feels so hard, I try to look at myself objectively, from a higher perspective, the way a loving parent looks at a toddler. Look at yourself. Really look. There you are! With a body and a…

Hey so we need to talk about death and dying. And not like in the fun way. — Okay besties. Confession time: I think about death a lot, and I’m sure many other Youth Afflicted with Existential Ennui do too. As the one inevitable fact of life, I’m fascinated with how ill-prepared our society is with death. It seems like we spend a lot of time trying not…