Strides – Spring 2024
Playing Hopscotch With My Footsteps
Artwork created by Shana Wu By Mild Pichitpongchai It was a crisp morning day. I admired the clear sky that greets me, its summer warmth kissing my cheeks. I saw a plane, no more than a small dot, leaving a faint trial in the sky. My pace gained momentum as I try to catch up…
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A Taste of Home
artwork by Sophia Bueno By Maggie Li There’s something about the orange chicken my dad makes that I can’t get enough of. It’s something so inexplicably enchanting and irresistible to the mouth that all other thoughts cease to exist. With just one bite of this savory-sweet delicacy, drenched in a tangy orange-infused sauce, topped with…
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My In’s and Out’s as an Asian American
artwork by Elaine Zhou By Aashi Shukla I lay in bed, my phone screen lighting up the dark room as I doom scroll on TikTok. 2024 is a week away and the New Year’s resolutions have already started to fill my “for you page,” except there is something different about this trend. The concept of…
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All That was New York
artwork by Mild Pichitpongchai By Amy Dai Time has been working against me, and in a way I’d always feared. The day before my best friend had to move into college, we were sitting on the curb outside of her house. My eyes were fixed on the bits of gravel that I was beginning to…
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喜鹊 Bird of Happiness
artwork by Mild Pichitpongchai By Shana Wu We’d taken a walk one night after returning from the movie theater, the humid cold chilling my lips. I always recalled my high school years when I dreaded the grey Shanghai winters. Now, the bone-piercing air felt almost comforting. The streets were quiet, save for the gentle lull…
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Reclaiming Roots: A Modern Twist on Cultural Fashion
artwork by Ann Lee By Jamie Huang My childhood was spent in mismatched Disney princess tees and colorful, sparkly skirts, followed by an adolescence of cropped tanks and baggy jeans. Nothing about my style ever screamed or even whispered Asian culture. During my preteen years, I remember feeling restricted to certain traditional garments, with an…
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Trailblazers on the Global Stage
Artwork by Cynthia Li By Veronica Bunnell and Alex Talamayan It’s the early 2010s and a little girl is watching Avatar the Last Airbender, eating her ensaymada, which her Lola brought back from the Philippines. She had just returned from another failed volleyball tryout, remembering the distinct words “Can you even reach the volleyball net?”…
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ABC
Artwork by Ann Lee By Helen Kao Main Street Cupertino, April 2023: I drove through Cupertino, listening to the Billboard Hot 100’s No. 1 track: “Kill Bill” by SZA. I was on my way to have dessert with my friends at Main Street Cupertino, also known as ABC (American-Born Chinese) Central because it’s home to…
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Mothers Like the Great Sea, Just Like My Home
By Cynthia Li Winds and Dragons Nuwa, who roamed the Earth filled with luscious greenery and plush grasses, felt lonely inhabiting the beautiful world by herself. So when she encountered a long flowing river, she picked up the malleable yellow clay from the banks and started to mold it. When she saw her own reflection,…
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Flying From Home –– Embracing Cultural Conflict and Family Bonds
Artwork by Ellery Ibo By Emily Wang When a baby bird’s wings are clipped at birth, it becomes unable to fly. The baby bird’s nest becomes its sanctuary of comfort, as well as the birthplace of its greatest hindrances. Growing up as a Chinese American child of divorced, immigrant parents has often felt like being…
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