Emily Law (2022/3)
Emily is currently in her 4th-year, pursuing a double major in Psychology and English at the University of British Columbia which is based on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Through her studies, Emily seeks to understand the individual in both intra- and interpersonal levels; specifically, how the […]
Gurnoor Powar (2022/3)
Gurnoor Powar is a second-generation Punjabi-Canadian currently enrolled in the fourth year of her bachelor program, majoring in English with a minor in ACAM. Since entering the ACAM program she has found a passion for Asian-Canadian arts and initiatives, focusing on storytelling as a mode of recovery and retrieval with an interest in the displacement […]
Samhita Shanker (Organizer)
Samhita Shanker (she/her) is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with a minor in Law and Society at UBC. As a writer, as well as a queer Indian, her primary focus is on telling stories that explore how queerness intersects (and conflicts) with South Asian society. Her academic work has examined the […]
amanda wan (Organizer)
amanda wan (they/them) is a queer han chinese settler based on the unceded, occupied territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sʔəl̀ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. They are a recent graduate of the MA English program at UBC, where their thesis project centered the erotic mediations of the Asiatic in queer Asian diasporic literatures. In particular, […]
Olivia Lim (Organizer)
Olivia Lim (she/her) is a graduate student completing her MA in English Literature at the University of British Columbia. Working at the intersection of critical disability studies and Asian transpacific studies, her thesis explores how understandings of disability and debility impact frameworks of redress in contemporary Asian transpacific literature. Her current and past community projects […]