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A letter to an imaginary future
A letter to an imaginary future

Transmissions from a dystopian present to an imaginary future — a letter from the editor

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real/imaginedTiffany Diane TsoFebruary 13, 2021
Mapping Insanity / Family
Mapping Insanity / Family

I dream of a reality in which we redefine what “mental health” really means.

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real/imaginedAnonymousFebruary 13, 2021
A 9-Tailed Fox
A 9-Tailed Fox

In Asian cultures, foxes are powerful, cunning spirits, full of trickery and deception. They might bring you good fortune, but more likely they’ll destroy you.

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real/imaginedJ.A. PakFebruary 13, 2021
Space-Time Distanciation
Space-Time Distanciation

It’s difficult to break through barriers of language and space and time. Worlds and generations away. Space-time distanciation.

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real/imaginedDonia TungFebruary 13, 2021
Dreamweaving
Dreamweaving

My dreams as of late have been attempts to live up to the grandeur of my ancestors’ wildest dreams.

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real/imaginedChristina OngFebruary 13, 2021
i am in the sky
i am in the sky

i don’t remember the last time i prayed to my ancestors / hands are disconnected from the incense at the altar

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real/imaginedCalista OgburnFebruary 13, 2021
Do you have yours hot or cold?
Do you have yours hot or cold?

The memory of her and her love come washing over me, like the cloud of steam from the rice cooker—a warmth that I can feel, but can’t touch.

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real/imaginedRochelle Hoi-Yiu KwanFebruary 13, 2021
(m)other(land) ?  / return
(m)other(land) ? / return

escape runs bloodlines / what is it that the harano womxn / keep trying to run from

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real/imaginedErika HaranoFebruary 13, 2021
In this parallel universe
In this parallel universe

In this parallel dimension, whenever a man calls me “exotic,” his eyes are sprayed with garam masala without me even having to whip it out. 

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real/imaginedAmatan NoorFebruary 13, 2021
Yellowness
Yellowness

My mother’s skin is painted gold/ She’s shimmering in the rice plantation/ As the sun roasts her back

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real/imaginedWyman HuangFebruary 13, 2021
the ring on my finger doesn’t fit
the ring on my finger doesn’t fit

I continued to let her dance in the wind. She felt free. No longer constrained by the way I imagined things were supposed to be or suggested to be.

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real/imaginedAndrew MaiFebruary 13, 2021
Walk Towards Happy
Walk Towards Happy

When we become afraid to present reality as it is, then we have let fiction become stranger then the truth.

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real/imaginedMo-Yain ThamFebruary 13, 2021
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