'Design aims to take ordinary, everyday products like clothes and gives them that human touch and something to connect with.'

'I think anger is really healthy. It’s motivating; and it’s something a lot of women are expected to swallow, as anger isn’t a ‘routine’ or acceptable emotion according to tired stereotypes.'

"I tend to use writing as a form of therapy, to make sense of or learn something from confusing & disorientating experiences."

"I feel really dysmorphic about my skin colour, only because the way it is translated back to me."

'I used to have a lot of anger around being mixed-race and other people’s perceptions of me, but now I figure I know who I am even if nobody else does.'

'Read outside your comfort zone, read writers you've never heard of, read translated books.'

'If you want to make art, find a way to do it, make it known, make it seen.'

'I think, in literature, as in film, there is still a persistent ‘whiteness default’: presenting the world as though being white is the norm and anyone else is simply there as ‘flavouring’ to advance plot or feed into a stereotype.'

'Sustainability weighs on my mind quite heavily. Can I create sustainably? Can production be sustainable? Or is that not possible?'

'As a female, Asian-Australian comedian, there aren’t many of us, so it is pretty cool. It’s like going to Coles fruit section, and I’m the jackfruit. It is unusual to find a jackfruit in the Coles fruit section. But they’re pretty delicious.'

'Good intentions are useless if the end result ends up hurting someone. Seriously listen; the act is severely underrated. Amplify necessary voices even if it means having to be silent, share power and resources.'  

'Where I stand today as an artist is completely different to where I stood at twenty. I was much more interested in making beautiful work, and less about actively communicating a story or feeling. Nowadays, I focus more on narrative, feeling and authenticity.'

'In Australia, Asians get media coverage in creative industries only if we’re wearing an apron on a cooking show or making comedy out of our own culture.'