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I received an email from an Australian psychology service yesterday which addressed the covid-19 outbreak and how we can take care of ourselves throug...

I feel like we spend a lot of energy and dialogue around how we can support others by checking in with them when they don’t look or seem so well. Init...

Whenever I talk about this platform, Shapes and Sounds, the number one question I'm asked is, "do you know of a good Asian Australian therapist?" It's...

Sometimes all the stars align and you meet the right person at exactly the right time. For me, Dr Phoebe Lau is one of those people.

I’ve been creati...

Although Shapes and Sounds predominantly speaks to the Asian diaspora community in Australia, it is fair to say that most people reading this are in f...

As is the case with all of us who have had employment in this country, I’ve had the pleasure of working with an arrogant, unqualified, insecure, middl...

Life hack for Asians #1:

If you’re ever in a rush and you need to somehow make your way through a busy crowd, all you need to do is find a middle age...

Talking with other Asian Australians about the Asian diaspora experience has helped me to heal and become a stronger, truer version of myself. But it ...

At one particular organisation where I worked, all the coloured people and queer people were rounded up one week to brainstorm and write the organisat...

I don’t own a TV and I love it. I love it because it means that I don’t watch any free-to-air TV and instead I get to enjoy a curated stream of all of...

Being a “banana” means that you’re a person who is yellow on the outside and white on the inside. And this banana label is often thrown around in many...

Last year, I sat down for my 14 hour transit flight to Dubai and as I settled in, a middle aged Caucasian couple arrived in the seats next to me. As t...