My daughter asked me if she is white. As her brother tried to answer the question, looking at his colouring pencils and bringing his own…
“Will you be okay on your own?” the driver asked me, pulling to a stop. “I’ll be fine, thank you.” I’ve been doing this for…
I learned about it the summer after I turned 16. The fan above was blowing hot air onto my head. Miscellaneous birds made their Australiana…
“Too black for the white kids, and too white for the black.” That’s a line from the 2013 single ‘Chum’ by African-American rapper Earl Sweatshirt….
April 2007 In 1994 in Melbourne, Australia, my dad sat in peace. He had marched and fought, and now could return to the country he’d…
“I used my backpack to shield a young girl from the police’s rubber bullets, because she was about to get hit and for sure she…
“Where are you from?” This is a typical way of breaking the ice among solo travellers. I get asked the question up to 10 times…
You know when you’re a kid and someone says to you, “I bet I can beat you to that tree!” so you break into a…
I am part Indonesian, part German; in other words, I am Eurasian. I grew up in Singapore, living there for most of my life. I…
It is so cold in Istanbul that it cramps my spine. Hiding my face from the cutting air, I see an old lady chopping painted…
The pollution is so dense; I can actually see it lingering in the air. Droplets of sweat ooze from my pores as I am struck…
