Writing

Writing

Fiction

A Long-Lost Might Have Loved, Hyphen (2019)

Poetry

ashamed of my past shame, Ricepaper Magazine (2016)

Essays & Opinion

Newmarket wants to legislate body rub parlours out of existence, Ricochet Magazine (2021)

Introduction - Offerings to both Past and Future: Still Life Photographs by Shellie Zhang, BlackFlash Magazine (2020)

Watched and Not Seen: Tech, Power, and Dehumanization, GUTS (2018)

Where Empathy Meets Technology: VR Storytelling, Shameless Magazine (2018) 

On Seeing Chinese Mothers On-Screen, GUTS (2018)

Wanting to Feel Seen While Wanting to Feel Safe, GUTS (2018)

Food, Race, and Power: Who gets to be an authority on 'ethnic' cuisines?, Intersectional Analyst (2017)

Egg tarts were the taste of my Chinese childhood. I then learned they weren’t what they seemed, The Globe and Mail (2015)

First Death, Human Parts (2015)

Personal Blog (Selected)

Meditations on an algorithmized self (2023)

On not writing (2021)

An untidy story (2020)

Reflections on “Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano’s Vision of Progressive Law Practice” by Gerald P. López (2020)

On overworking, disposability, and feeling (un)worthy of kindness - What does it take for people of colour to see themselves as they are? (2018)

Copyright as a colonizer’s tool—lessons from the 2018 #ccsummit - Reflecting on learnings from the 2018 Creative Commons Global Summit in Toronto, Canada (2018)

Whose Utopia? - The Need for Meaningful Diversity and Human-Centred Design When Imagining a “Scholarly Commons” (2016)

The [first] generation [language] gap - In which I contemplate whether family affection can really exist with a language barrier. (2015)

Other (on data and technology)

Data rights for workers in the gig economy - Data Protection Reflection Stories, Responsible Data (2019)

Addressing stalkerware and gender-based abuse through data protection law - Data Protection Reflection Stories, Responsible Data (2019)

Helping individuals take control of their data - Data Protection Reflection Stories, Responsible Data (2019)

Recidivism data would support the work of youth justice organizations: In conversation with Peacebuilders Canada - Powered by Data blog (2018)

Data for racial equity: what’s happening in Ontario? - Ontario Trillium Foundation Knowledge Centre (2018) 

Consent, data-driven inequities, and the risks of sharing administrative data - Powered by Data blog (2018)

Zines*

An Untidy Story, self-published (2019)  

Sometimes Love is Quiet, Sometimes It’s Not There At All, self-published, comic (2017)  

*Limited print copies available.