5 Questions with Jennifer Ma

“This sense of un-belonging within myself and in my immediate environments prompted me to explore this segmented cultural identity. I was curious about how much of our identity is ours to dictate.”

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Cher Tan
5 Questions with Marcus Whale

“A lot of what I’m trying to access in the music I make is the kind of ecstatic and fantastical states that allow us to disrupt the mundane and the everyday and be able to imagine ourselves in that kind of beyond.”

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Cher Tan
5 Questions with Safdar Ahmed

“I hope Still Alive makes some contribution to a cultural and political sea change in this country, away from policies that exploit racism and fear. Ultimately we need to dismantle and overturn the entire immigration and ‘border protection’ system if we are to ever treat people humanely.”

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Cher Tan
5 Questions with Lucy Van

“I feel decolonisation cannot be simply the removal or negation of coloniality, but rather more the thinkability of something new, or to put it another way, a capacity to begin in some not (pre)determined way.”

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Cher Tan
5 Questions with Tiffany Ko

“In the current climate, with Asian hate on the rise, I find that I’m trying to seek support from people who have had the same experiences as I have, whether that be in ‘real life’ relations, or in the books I read.”

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Cher Tan
5 Questions with Lee Lai

‘I spent the earlier part of my twenties pendulum-swinging between wanting kids and not wanting kids, and in that period of time I started writing comic vignettes of a queer woman around my age, hanging out with a young kid who’s in her care.’

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Cher Tan
5 Questions with Chop Chef

“You have to push in; you cannot wait to be invited. In the words of Viet Thanh Nguyen, ‘Writers from a minority, write as if you are the majority. Do not explain. Do not cater. Do not translate. Do not apologize.’"

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Cher Tan
5 Questions with Jaida

“…when I’m being creative it’s [a form of] venting. So I can focus on something else, rather than traumatic things. And that way I have something I can control.”

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Cher Tan