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culture Food Interviews Joan Silole

Tiffany Yuka’s Dual Heritage

As a symbol of culture, the food we consume every day has long been shaping our identity and ethnic imagination. Through the interview with Tiffany Yuka, a Japanese raised in America, her story goes beyond the traditional culinary practices as she navigated through an intersection between her mixed-culture cuisine background and her heritage.

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culture Food Puspadewi Adiseputra

Taste of home

Why is it not the language or the music, but our home food that makes us feel homesick? Let’s follow in Puspa’s footsteps to explore her perspectives on her country’s cuisine—Indonesia—as well as its strong nostalgia within the ‘taste of home’.

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Academic Papers Media Tran Thi Mai Vien

Social Media’s Impact on Urbanization and Gentrification

People often see social media as an influencer on our personal life, but gradually, it then became a catalyst for the change in our daily civic engagement, the dynamics of urban landscape, and even further restoration of city planning. Come with Vien to find out what’s so special about the SNS we use everyday?

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Mattie Balagat Poem

Repetition || No language sings full

A poem by Mattie Balagat

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Jia Xuan Chok Short story

Lending Thoughts from a Mango Tree

– diary entries of a tree and a person Words and Visuals by Jia Xuan Chok In my reality, trees and people both have their own ways of documenting life. I decided to take a third-person perspective and peek into their diary entries (don’t ever do that in real life), weaving their stories into a […]

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Olaedo Ibegwam Chigaemezu Poem

Unbecoming

A poem by Chigaemezu Ibegwam