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Last week, I shared a story (over HERE) about the ways in which non-Anglo names can really throw people off. Little did I know that this story would r...

This title seems very prescriptive and click-bait-y however, in my experiences of calling out racism in Australia, I really have found that there is a...

I always thought that I had a bit of a free pass when it came to conversations about Australia’s past and current treatment of Aboriginal and Torres S...

Each month, Shapes and Sounds chats with a prominent Asian Australian doing great things in the world. We ask the same three questions to everyone, re...

Self-reflection, self-awareness, self-inquiry.

Time and time again, we are told that such processes, of getting to know ourselves intimately, can “he...

What will happen to us if we continue to live with internalised racism and never try to work through it?

I think very simply stated; it would mean th...

I know that “internalised racism” is not a very fun topic: it sounds heavy, too theoretical, too “activist”-y.

But this is something that we, the Asi...

Even though the world feels like it’s turned upside down right now, there are common truths that seem to permeate through no matter the external envir...

Right now, there are around 700,000 international students from Asia enrolled in Australian universities. Although many were unable to return or move ...

Two years ago, I visited my favourite aunty in rural Japan and during my stay, I remember telling her about “Asian Australians” and how I’d been think...

Now more than ever, we, the Asian Australian community need to remember that there always have been and will always continue to be, Asian Australians ...

An early dialogue about Covid-19 concerned the “dirty” and “weird” foods that Asians eat. For me, this triggered so much past shame about food identit...