Status Updates From East Side Voices: Essays ce...

‘…maybe you’re thinking about choosing a name for your child, for your love, for yourself…I can’t choose your name for you but I’ll tell you I’m beginning with a list of wishes.
I wish this name will:
Describe a history.
Encompass two lives.
Spell the name of a home.
Be mixed and mixed up.
Be ours.’

‘Memories and identities that were created and developed in previous situations get utilised in different ways and get expressed in new ways. These are intersections of my identity that are articulated for each new audience, and I have a choice in how they get presented.’ - Anna Sulan Masing

‘What I do find in every space I occupy is an awareness; I am aware of my mixed-race status and how that plays with privilege and choice - for and against me. Being mixed race, and/or coming from multiple spaces, but occupying a Western world is knowing where you fit and knowing how to fit in.’ -Anna Sulan Masing

‘Like after so many deaths when shock, grief and anger are masked as greed for money and other material remnants left behind. Things often left unsaid become internalised and explode, further hurting the already hurt, enacting even more damage.’ -Naomi Shimada