“It’s not that I want to forget I look queer, but I couldn’t even if I tried.”
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Home Is Where the Kueh Is
“I used food to reconnect with my Peranakan identity, and this recognition of the vitality of food to identity allows me to better understand other people’s identities.”
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Cooking in the Eye of the Storm
“We need to encourage people of all genders to embrace cooking as a form of emotional expression and as a basic survival skill.”
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Beauty in Colour
“The first step to changing the way beauty is perceived in society is to embrace beauty in all colours and appreciate the different forms of beauty that women of colour offer.”
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Home, I’ve Heard the Word Before
“Definitions of home seem to be everywhere, from the stories our friends tell to the throw pillows and inspirational posters that litter the homes of our grandparents.”
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Double Whammy – Being Both Young and a Woman
“I am a sufferer of imposter syndrome and I wholeheartedly believe that the intersection of my age and gender has something to do with it.”
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Where Are You Really From?
“Both my own experiences and my friends’ comments have exposed a critical and alarming issue that we have in society today: our limited and perhaps ingrained conceptions of nationality. ”
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The Mistaken Link Between Beauty and Morality
“Interestingly, this link between inner and outer worth which was established centuries ago is still prevalent in our modern day Western culture.”
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Be Yourself, Not Perfect
“I, too, find I am often asking myself: ‘Am I good enough to be doing this?’”
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It’s Cool to Catch-22
“Interestingly, amongst all of this contemplation, what I have noticed is that the concept of the ‘Cool Girl’ seems to largely be discussed and debated by women.”
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