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indie
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"But I love you [...] You and I have done alright, our genealogical trajectories compounded or diluted enough intor the white middle class to put us over the blue line; I can't stay mad at you forever [...] My love for you is as solid as the Civic Centre ice you fell on during your figure skating show, my own heart twanging in tandem to your embarassment [...]
We need to Zamboni our love smooth until it shines."
— Jan 31, 2026 12:07PM
We need to Zamboni our love smooth until it shines."
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indie
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"The mayor's toast to the shy Chinese cooks who stand just outside the swinging kitchen door in their dirty aprons faces glazes with sweat"
— Jan 31, 2026 01:32PM
indie
is on page 137 of 190
"He's a boss's son and I'm a boss's son. His pure Chineseness and my impure Chineseness don't make any difference to us in the cafe. But I've assumed a dull and ambiguous edge of difference in myself; the hyphen always seems to demand negotiation."
— Jan 31, 2026 12:59PM
indie
is on page 134 of 190
"I am an obstacle. I can't get out of the way now that I've stepped into the frame."
— Jan 31, 2026 12:55PM
indie
is on page 131 of 190
"...now that you got a head tax will you collect a heart tax too?"
— Jan 31, 2026 12:50PM
indie
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"In fact, the few Chinese words I know are the ones I hear in the kitchen when the cooks swear at me."
— Jan 31, 2026 12:43PM
indie
is on page 72 of 190
"Not just being pissed off but allt he way back to something not mine, something I brought with me from before the first angry scream at birth caught deep back in the throat despite me and now you have it too [...] rage to the skin's story is colour-deep, colour deep."
— Jan 31, 2026 11:28AM
indie
is on page 51 of 190
"Instant cow, even more transparent now behind this spotless box of shiny metal [...] Dad looks at that gleaming hunk of modernity, shakes his head, and curses the absence of both milk and memory."
— Jan 31, 2026 10:58AM
indie
is on page 19 of 190
"He loves hockey but never learns to skate." - Unlike Fred Jr., Fred Sr. is unable to ever become part of the "winning team" of whiteness, focalized within the allegory of sports.
— Jan 31, 2026 10:25AM
indie
is on page 12 of 190
"I feel decanting through my body his ocean (I think I can even smell it) [...] the deja vu of body, skin and fur and eyes, a brief intersection of animal coordinates."
— Jan 31, 2026 10:16AM
