Fiction
On Sight
“It’s time. You’re done playing your memories on loop, thinking of everything you might have done wrong. Today will be the end.”
October 2021, The Rumpus
Rerun
“I feel a violet guilt. Who am I to deserve touch, the ginger’s Starburst-pink affection? I lie until first light.”
April 2021, The Margins
Essays
I Rewrite My American Story in Everything Everywhere All At Once
“Asian Americans use Black cultures to make sense. We do so without crediting Black people. This is the defining challenge of my Asian American selfhood: crafting a way of being that’s as genuine as it is just.”
August 2022, Electric Literature
My Drag Masculinity Steals the Show in Everything Everywhere All At Once
“Asian American men represent a failure of masculinity. Scrambling the gender spectrum with our big legs and hairless arms, furry chests and tiny waists, we fuck gender up. We are doing drag.”
June 2022, Electric Literature
My Family’s Failures Took
Center Stage in Everything
Everywhere All At Once
“Watching Everything Everywhere All At Once the first time was like smashing a dam with a battering ram. I was finally meeting a family like mine, an Asian American failure.”
May 2022, Electric Literature
Why Violence Goes Viral:
A Thread in Six Parts
“Ours is a country that acknowledges Black people most upon their murder. White liberals would call such decency love, but no. It is a sickness when Black death is clickbait.”
March 2021, Los Angeles Review of Books
What If We Saved Ourselves?
“Everything the white gaze does to our writing, it does to us as well. In white spaces, it’s not only our work that’s vulnerable. It’s our personhood.”
January 2021, Los Angeles Review of Books
The Trappings of Visibility
“The mandate for inclusion does a disservice to Asian American history. It distorts and erases people who opt out of the American project, which spans anti-Blackness and imperialism.”
September 2020, Hyphen Magazine
Reviews and Interviews
“Power in Strangeness”:
A Conversation with
K-Ming Chang
“This is the first novel that's really made me think about what it means to be Taiwanese. The centuries of colonial trauma that's in here, all the animal motifs — it could have gone very Orientalist, right? How did you choose how much explanation to do?”
November 2020, Hyphen Magazine
Cantoras
“We get access to what characters don’t or can’t say even to those they hold closest and dearest. The effect of this radical disclosure, paradoxically, is the articulation of our constitutive loneliness.”
December 2019, Lambda Literary
The Flight Portfolio
“Given the novel’s timeliness and its argument for solidarity, I worry that it might function as a plea to white readers: See, white people were refugees once too. If you care about these refugees, might those merit your compassion too?”
August 2019, Lambda Literary