Canto Cutie - Volume 2

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Dad liked to gnaw on chicken feet, making suckingnoises while he crunched on the small bones. Momliked anything wrapped in dough, but she o!en atein silence because Gong-gong made her nervous.This was something I learned later on.I’d eye the carts, hoping each new auntie would havemy favorite: siu mai. And when it would arrive, Imade sure my thank you was bright and proper. “!”Usually there was no response. She would place herlittle red stamp onto our card, which would belittered with the same red stamps by the end of themeal, and then move on to the next table. But I feltvictorious, a well-mannered Cantonese kid whosounds like her mother, like her grandparents.Thank you rolled off the tongue, its intonationspracticed and carefully executed.But Gong-gong and Po-po rarely spoke to me inCantonese. This was reserved for my mother, hersisters, her brother, and their children. Not me. Tothem, my mother had made the mistake of marryinga Mainland-er: my father with the sharp nose andwooden tongue. He spoke Putonghua, or MandarinChinese, the dialect my mother had to learn toconverse with him when they first began dating.This was not the language of her home.I am his reflection: the same broad shoulders, deepundereye circles, strong nose bridge. It didn’t matterhow practiced my mm goi sai was, or how I have mymother’s eyes and freckles.About Kristie SongKristie Song is a Chinese-American writer based inSouthern California. She also works with audio anddigital art to tell meaningful stories about lostmemories and childhood scraps.@chinesefreckles
CUNG 4 GWONG 1saamsyuVideo still@saamsyuAbout saamsyuAt the beginning of 2019, saamsyu was established to engage in illustrationcreation. My works mainly focus on still objects. And the style is based onthe luminosity and texture of the TV screen which are influenced byanimations and movies in the 1980s.Page 150-153 contains the digital work of Irene Kwan.About Irene KwanBorn and raised in Texas, Irene majored in Communications before settingoff to South Korea to serve as a teacher for a number of years. While abroad,she took the opportunity to journey throughout the world to test herconservative, immigrant mother’s unshaking theory that “America is thegreatest country in the world!” After years of walking about on foreign soil,Irene has proven that theory to be immensely false and believes instead thatno superlative can define a single country. She currently resides in Houstonand gets by through life following Haruki Murakami’s advice: “I think thatmy job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them...I wouldlike to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.”
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藝文聚粵Canto CutieAn art zi
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Table of ContentsForword by Katheri
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From the editorWhen I started this
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8Peachtree PlazaKaren Kar Yen LawMo
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Still Life at Popo'sMarissa De Sand
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You use graphite as a texture for a
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18Calendar (2020), a 4-panel comic
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Intimacy is a theme subtly depicted
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Sai Mun Zai (2018), a comic origina
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In scanning vintage queer newslette
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Jeffrey AndrewsThe Africa CenterHon
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Cute andCantonese:An identityrooted
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Cover ArtistCrystal Lee
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Crystal LeeHong KongCrystal Lee is
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W h a t w a s y o u r e x p e r i e
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You mentioned that youw a n t e d t
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Fish EyeTrigger warning: suicide id
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When a Fisheye is cooked, the trans
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A passage from the Bible: Citizens
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But ANON had never thought of dying
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The phenomenon has been ongoing for
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ANON never knew that there was an a
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babbled some gossips. She was out o
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70Upheaval:A poetrycollectionon Hon
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Kei qin ahHalf bakedIt is dystopia
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Annika ChengNew York, USAAnnika Che
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Being a BIPOC, especially an Asianp
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Annika ChengThe Shell of a MaskClea
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Page 149 and 150: MondaysIrene KwanIllustration & dig
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