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Was thinking about this quote by @mreddiehuang the entire time I was walking through "A Seat at the Table." "You have tattoos and others have piercings, but for me, there’s nothing that says more about me than the food I choose to carry every single day. As a kid trying to maintain my identity in America, my Chinese was passable, my history was shaky, but I could taste something once and make it myself at home. When everything else fell apart and I didn’t know who I was, food brought me back and I was here again." (at Museum of Vancouver) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLQOaRQhdOT/?igshid=62kbvlfk77r7

I want to do the right thing, make my fam, blood and chosen, proud and be as honest and open to my lived experience in the moment. And I hope my answers from a year ago talking with @nicolledoublel for @menwhotakebaths did that. Link in bio 🛁 📸: @jahgrey https://www.instagram.com/p/CFcgrjehou4/?igshid=wq64afg06cl0

Sit up in the sky. (at Iona Tip) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDFY44nJJcO/?igshid=rwqeg8n1jufu

I like the horizon blown out, that's just my taste. https://www.instagram.com/p/B__XJDfhb9F/?igshid=14cugzn8czhxx

"It is dark outside my window and I see my reflection. In everything I see my reflection, in the water, yes, especially the water." (at Iona Tip) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_vEOpLhBcU/?igshid=p1rzkhz4sl0x

If I close my eyes now, I think I see the world as my chosen fam would have me see it. I think I can see my people dancing in the streets, like nothing they loved has ever been set on fire. (at Gardens By the Bay, Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/B92sRpvhRHe/?igshid=1hgt4gbdzrtof

How does it feel to be golden? (at Little Mountain Shop) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7hFKwdBWlX/?igshid=1mmd7flmcmwi2

"I've abandoned hopeless hope, but I am not rooting for the meteor. I'm still rooting for us, my people and their people and their people beyond that. I'm rooting for us to clean off the dusty mirror and look at the bad bet staring back. This is me challenging my inner cynic the best way I know how - taking a few lazy swings and seeing if I can tire him out in time to get back to whatever the real work may be this time. It is another new year, and most of my pals made it to the other side with me. [Some of us will call each other and hear each other's voices. Some will send blurry pictures, drowning in fluorescent light. Some of us will make sure that those who aren't alone know that they aren't alone.] "I have started other years at funeral, in hospital rooms, in studio apartments with my phone off entirely. So in spite of the newest realities that we must confront and stay uncomfortable with, I'm hoping that I get to stick around for a while. I am hoping, mostly, that we all get better at wishing on the things we need, even in darkness." - @nifmuhammad 📸: @nicolledoublel x @jahgrey https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vxCTpBMae/?igshid=1lfs7qhosupf9

My favourite songs of the decade, out now. Link in bio ✌🏽 https://www.instagram.com/p/B53g4ezB1cB/?igshid=1hf095v7dy8dc

I've stumbled and lived every word. 📷: @floriental (at Bombast Interiors) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5yjJwXhOBh/?igshid=1do4t4sagiedv

Saturday Morning Cartoons on a Monday Night (at VENUE) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5VzuyAhZ_q/?igshid=1s56h24u7dphz

Hanif Abdurraqib once said, "To make any choice to love someone, is to also make a choice - I mean, really, to make a choice to commit to someone - is to make a choice to also commit to a life that potentially might not them in it." The sun has just risen, the world has not woken, and the rain has yet to fall. I look over the horizon and see a world without maps. It's only a contradiction if you think it is. (at Centennial Beach Boundary Bay Regional Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4uyyghB55b/?igshid=fvppwcb77kzs

When I first got this book a lot of friends asked me why other men should read it, a few chapters in and I didn't have an answer I could articulate beyond, "They need to." It wasn't until 3/4 of the way through when @feministabulous provided the language for me, when she writes the easy thing to do is to check your privilege, the real work comes from examining the power behind that privilege. When I was finishing the book a quote which came to my mind was one from James Baldwin and what does love mean, "If I love you, I have to make conscious of the things you don't see." For the Love of Men accomplishes this task. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LDCtGh5Do/?igshid=x4u7f5sgwudu

Heaven belongs to @brckhmptn (at Vancouver Forum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4IT-hrhrxc/?igshid=1jokct12d3hd9

Heaven belongs to @brckhmptn (at Vancouver Forum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4HIbczBld3/?igshid=11h7uqh6rcbjx

"Tell these Asian kids they could do what they want Might steal the mic at the GRAMMYs just to say we won That everyone can make it, don't matter where you from" 📸: @jacob.ruins.cars (at The Vogue Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ymRKPBLKf/?igshid=1nkdwgc51q4dz

This is a photo of HK from my time there this past May. As many of you have seen I've been quite outspoken against the State Sanctioned Violence against the peaceful protest happening there for months now. I am finally fed up enough to go beyond just highlighting the important work people have been doing on the ground there. I just posted a paper I wrote last April that I never imagined posting about the history of Uyghurs in Xinjiang province. While both oppressive acts are different there are themes run a through line through both struggles: resistance, censorship, and the way State powers wield history to benefit themselves. Link in bio ✊🏽 (at 麥奀記忠記) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3aNhYahh7C/?igshid=vk1l4wmkpm8j

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