Journalism

A selection of work:

Features

DJ Mag – Finally liberated: the radical arrival ofVietnamese underground music

The Guardian – Reselling, repairing and ‘swishing’: the rise of sustainable fashion apps

Anti-Racism Daily – Intergenerational trauma amongst the Southeast Asian community

Ours to Save – How Vietnam’s hunger for sand is eroding a way of life. I also produced an Instagram story for Deutsche Welle talking about my coverage of this crisis.

The Guardian – Documenting Vietnamese refugees’ arrival in Britain

The Guardian – Tigertail is a necessary, beautiful watch amid a wave of Anti-Asian bigotry

Essay for Guardian Film on Monsoon, Hong Khaou’s feature film starring Henry Golding

Bad Form Review – personal essay on Toni Morrison, my experience interning at a children’s book publisher driven by improving BAME representation and the power of literature to eradicate prejudice. Read an excerpt online here.

Fringe of Colour – Edinburgh Fringe support for Black People and People of Colour. I wrote a personal essay in response to ‘Silk’ by Martha Williams

The Times Literary Supplement – print review of Tracey Thorn’s Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/little-flickers-of-light/

The Times Literary Supplement – a personal essay on my family’s experience as refugees, their trials and triumphs, as well as the repercussions carried forward to successive generations

The Times Literary Supplement – print review of Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know

The Times Literary Supplement – print review of Lynn Enterline (ed.) Elizabethan Narrative Poems

The Times Literary Supplement – poetry introductions “Poem of the Week” https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/poem-week-preservation-landscapes/ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/lonely-hearts-wendy-cope/

Loud and Quiet – Feature: Inside The Grid: 10 Years of Instagram as the Music Industry’s Best Friend

Aurelia Magazine – A letter to my refugee parents

Girls on Tops Tees – A Face, A History, A Consciousness, A Rage: How Tigertail Gives East-Asian Immigrants A Voice

Texture Magazine – Cultural Appropriation in Music

Texture Magazine – Wysing Polyphonic X Somerset House Studios 2019 feature

Delinquent Magazine – Review of Good Morning

Reporting

The Telegraph – Oxford University’s insidious culture of sexual violence and the force of student campaigners

The Guardian – Greensill: The cabinet ministers who found private sector jobs

The Guardian – Funeral providers imposing unnecessary pandemic-related restrictions

The Guardian – Tweeting appreciation: bird-watching groups take flight in lockdown

Yorkshire Live – Sheffield dog breeder hounded with racist abuse and death threats after illegally importing puppies

The Star – Sheffield mechanic school helps ex-offenders, addicts and the unemployed get on track

OneZero https://onezero.medium.com/vietnams-coronavirus-death-toll-is-zero-the-cost-total-surveillance-1cf3d0c6172b

The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/02/19/e-bikers-not-cyclists-electric-bicycles-have-divided-britain/

The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/insurance/travel/one-10-travel-insurance-policies-pay-coronavirus-cancellations/

The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/02/19/morrisons-stop-selling-eggs-caged-hens/

MK Pulse Magazine, August 2020 print edition “End of Hibernation for MK’s Small Businesses”

Interviews

The Line of Best Fit – Interview with Melt Yourself Down https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/melt-yourself-down-keep-moving

Texture Magazine – Label profile TT (fka Tobago Tracks)

The Oxford Student – Interview with Still Pigeon, rising stars in the Oxford music scene

The Oxford Student – Interview with Canadian rock band Dilly Dally

Beautiful Freaks – Interview with The Japanese House

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