Highlights of my research projects and journal articles
a critical love letter to my ancestors:
perhaps a therapeutics of recognition?
in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2024, Vol. 52 Issue 3/4 p.241-251 – a critical self-study and creative nonfiction experiment that dialogues with colonial recognition and with the abjection method to the self and ancestry, to wrestle with generational failures and what it means to honor my ancestors.
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earth my body, water my blood
in Antennae issue #61 Earthly Mattering, p.119-132, July 2023
download free (back issue summer 2023) at www.antennae.org.uk
hydrophobic parched lands
in POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts & Communication (Volume 20, 2023, EGS Press) – a reflection on AI generated art, the landscape of imagination and the weaponizing of language in cultural discourse.


re-thinking ecopoiesis: questioning “nature” approach. an interview
in this interview I wander about unselfing, unshaping, reciprocity, and move beyond finding therapeutic inspiration from nature to a truly ecopoietic approach.
between the lack of response and the capacity to respond
my presentation at the Poiesis Symposium VI (Oct 25, 2021) hosted by the Division of Arts, Health and Society at the European Graduate School
Link to recording: https://www.facebook.com/XpressiveArts/videos/1454987034883306/


coronavirus as a rite of passage: finding cures for “colonialvirus” in expressive arts based research
in Ecopoiesis: Eco-Human Theory and Practice Journal Volume 1 (2020) Issue 2
city as studio, city as wound: dreaming abolitionist futures
in POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts & Communication (Volume 18, 2021, EGS Press)
(This is part of the Mitacs fellowship Abolitionist Dream Mapping research project. Download article here


decolonizing my Hong Kong identity as a settler in Canada
An expressive arts-based inquiry article published in Creative Arts in Education and Therapy 6(2): 153–170 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2020/6/22