Being Asian, to me, means knowing at the end of the day that the whole community is there for each other, ready to face the good and the bad side by side.
Search the Archive
All
- All
- News
- Culture
- Features
- Opinion
- Humour
- Science
- Sports
- Photo
- Guide
- Videos
- All magazines
- Magazine: Resolve
- Magazine: Seg Fault
- Magazine: Memory Leak
- Magazine: Redefine
- Magazine: System Failure
- Magazine: Ways Forward
- Magazine: Goes Around
- Magazine: Comes Around
- Magazine: Reclaim
- Magazine: Self
- All Spoofs
- Spoof: Mid Appétit
- Spoof: explain!
- Spoof: Girlbossmopolitan
- Spoof: NICE Magazine
- Spoof: The Main Maller
- Spoof: 2019 Spoof: Who?byssey
- Spoof: 2018 Spoof: Oh-No
- Spoof: 2017 Spoof: Breitbarf
Do not mispronounce it. I do not want to correct you twice.
I can't see myself in the signal's static. I speak but I only hear your cadence. :// Bàba, how do you say this word in Chinese?
The BSU said it stands in solidarity with the family and friends of Floyd, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Ahmaud Arbery and those “who were violently murdered by the police.”
UBC Chancellor Lindsay Gordon’s term holding one of the most senior positions at his own alma mater is coming to a close.
I wish I could tell myself these answers, but identity, no matter what it’s based on is always constructed and deconstructed. Built-up and destroyed.
I hardly knew some of the people there yet it was, in some comforting, familiar way, its own family meal.
You will watch and read content from cultural icons of my time. You will gain a balanced appreciation for the arts to complement your university application and become inspired by the wits of Ali Wong, David Chang and Awkwafina.
On May 27, the UBC Vancouver Senate passed a motion to adjust the winter session’s formal examination schedule and add a fall term break.
The May 28 panel, taking place the same week as the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests across the United States, spent much of its time discussing anti-Blackness in Asian communities and what can be done to address it.
The student, reported to be a Chinese national, was safely recovered after the RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department tracked her to a residence in the 6000 block of Fremlin Street.
Behind my face mask, I felt tomato bits stuck in my mouth. But I couldn’t let anybody know they were there. I had to prove myself through the fluency of my English that I was from here just like everyone else. That I was not the other.
After being in Vancouver for so long, I find myself struggling to tell my mother about my day in Chinese, bogged down by English jargon and unable to explain my studies to my grandmother and giving up on reading Chinese altogether.
The grocery store can’t replace my parents’ cooking or my brother’s sarcasm or my family’s love, but I guess it’s good enough for now.
As the days passed, it became increasingly apparent that we as Asian-Canadians did not belong. I was sporting a Korean-inspired fringe at the time, which seemed to warrant additional attention such as textbook ‘are you from China?’ racial comments.