J’ai regardé la ronde préliminaire du Big Air masculin planche à neige des Jeux Olympiques aujourd’hui. Je suis très fière de voir le planchiste chinois Su Yiming, qui a été la cible de commentaires racistes du commentateur sportif Max Hénault à Radio-Canada durant les JO de Pékin, aller en finale!

Lululemon (whose founder picked that brand name to be racist towards East Asians, by the way) should have their contract for official Canadian Olympic uniforms revoked. Someday, the Winter Olympics uniforms will be made by an Inuk designer and showcase their art style. olympic.ca/2025/11/18/b...

I spent this flu season complaining about people being sick on public transit unmasked. I have now tested positive for COVID. I got my last COVID vaccine in December, mask often on public transit even when I’m not sick, stay away from sick people on transit, wash my hands regularly. And yet…

More Toronto public transit misadventures: I waited for a bus to come at the bus stop. I saw the bus come, WITH PASSENGERS INSIDE, and IT DIDN’T STOP at my stop where I was patiently waiting. HUH??? I was so angry I gave up & stormed off to the subway. I should write a comic book about TO transit.

Toronto public transit misadventures: I had to switch streetcar lines & waited in -22C for ages with a bunch of angry freezing people because the 2nd streetcar was so delayed even my live tracking transit app can’t estimate its ETA. When my skin dried from the cold, I gave up & called an Uber.

I went on a date with a Toronto Chinese & told him about white people opening "Asian fusion" restos in Quebec City in the expropriated former Chinatown, white people opening izakayas as it's "trendy" & culturally appropriative clubs. He was horrified, "That'd never fly in TO. That's DECADES behind."

We truly live in the Hunger Games right now when militarized government agents are murdering people & cracking down on protests while a Melania Trump film that serves as propaganda is released in theatres.

Toronto drivers need to get a grip. It’s not normal that today on the same streetcar ride I nearly got into an accident twice because of drivers cutting off the street car. Both times I flew out of my seat due to sudden breaking. The 2nd time a person on crutches fell on the people in front of them.

White Québécois beer culture has officially gone too far (I don’t like beer, I may get cancelled in the entire province for saying this). BEER SPAS???? www.instagram.com/p/DUEDTrNkbx...

Life be like: La vie en un résumé:

So I’m gonna jump on this “I’m in a very Chinese era of my life” shtick. It was a very Chinese time in my life when my 奶奶 (paternal grandma) constantly trauma dumped on me when I was a kid about her fleeing the Japanese occupation of Shanghai as a child. Being Chinese is not always fun, people.

Non-Chinese people entering a “Chinese time of their life”: please also use this energy to stand in solidarity with Chinese and other Asians who are currently facing anti-Asian racism, Sinophobia, arbitrary arrest & kidnapping. Don’t love our culture without also loving our people.

(1/4) Dear politicians, journalists & editors: You were warned oil & gas development past the mid 2020s in Canada had no economic future. I know because for over 10 years I helped warn you. To those of you who didn't even want to discuss the possibility... #CDNpoli #NLpoli #ABpoli #SKpoli #BCpoli

Chinese diaspora language problems: * 1st language is Shanghainese, have next to no one to speak with * Forced to learn Mandarin, the common tongue of the Chinese people * Struggling to learn Cantonese now for Cantonese-speaking partner/in-laws * Quebec thinks I’m an evil multilingual 😂😭🤪

The article in question is worth a read. I am calling all Asian women who live in the Global North to stand in solidarity with our sisters in the Global South so that no woman will ever feel that her only chance for a “better life” is through marrying a MAGA man. open.substack.com/pub/katyho/p...

Headline I saw today: “Help, I married a white supremacist”

How I am staving off seasonal depression and world events-induced doom: planning multiple Lunar New Year events!

I was around when the catechism classes for Catholic kids were still a thing at francophone public school. As a non-Catholic, I was thrown together with all the non-Catholic kids in a room when the Catholic kids would be in catechism class. We would goof around & stick papers on each other’s backs.

TIL that Quebec school boards only secularized in 2000. Before that, all public schools belonged to either Catholic or Protestant school boards. I started public school in 2002. This explains why I was so heavily slut-shamed by school staff. It’s because they all went to Catholic schools!

People on social media have been posting videos of themselves doing very “Chinese” things & saying that they’re in a “Chinese time of their life”. It’s cool to see people engage more with Chinese culture. I hope this engagement will translate into standing in solidarity with the Chinese community.

Il a l'air qu'un prochain gouvernement péquiste est extrêmement probable. Et un troisième référendum sur la souveraineté du Québec qui vient avec... #polqc

Le discours de démission de Legault, c'est vraiment le vibe de mononcle au max. #polqc

François Legault démissionne avec une cote de désapprobation de 75% de la part de la population québécoise. C'est du presque jamais vu.

This is why multilingualism is an asset, people! It allows you to have a more complete picture of what is going on in the world and to access different perspectives that are not available or not as talked about in English. I will always support efforts & initiatives that encourage multilingualism.

DERNIÈRE HEURE: François Legault annoncera sa démission aujourd’hui. ici.radio-canada.ca/info/en-dire...

Recent world events made me realize how many anglosphere leftists don’t have a good grasp of how non-Western political contexts affect dynamics of oppression in non-Western countries. As someone who’s always been multilingual, I blame the English unilingualism of many anglosphere leftists for this.

In her English dialogue, Ashley Park also sounds like an American, and not like a Shanghainese girl who grew up mega rich in Shanghai & in international boarding schools…

Many native Russian speakers are praising Connor Storrie’s (who is American) Russian & Russian accent in English in Heated Rivalry. By contrast, Ashley Park’s (who is Korean American) Mandarin is horrifying in Emily in Paris. Her French is also clearly English accented instead of Mandarin accented…

The West's allure is declining amongst Chinese people. My parents' generation saw the West through naive idealism. But younger Chinese have insight from peers who've actually experienced life abroad with all of its upsides & downsides. So they're making more informed choices about moving/staying.

I truly feel like we are living in the meme timeline of news. It would be funny if it wasn't so scary and real.

Il y a des jeunes Québécoises blanches qui n’ont apparemment pas reçu le message que le féminisme girlboss, c’est passé date. Ça fait tellement 2010! Beaucoup du reste du monde a évolué au-delà du féminisme blanc individualiste. Il est temps que les femmes blanches québécoises suivent aussi.

If you are coughing unmasked on public transit, I am getting away from you and going far away. If you are coughing unmasked at a restaurant, I am immediately going to see the server and ask to be moved to a table far away from you. You deserve to be shamed for your lack of consideration.

One of the worst things about living in a spot where there is winter is flu season. Influenza spreads like wildfire because people are cooped up inside because it’s too cold to socialize outside or walk. AND YET MANY FEEL FREE TO WALK AROUND SICK IN PUBLIC UNMASKED & BECOME WALKING DISEASE VECTORS.

Living next to a country that is a fascist dumpster fire is making my anxiety worse.

This may get me hate comments, but what is happening right now to many Venezuelans & Venezuelan diaspora trying to talk about recent events is reminiscent of what happens to many Chinese & Chinese diaspora who say “CCP bad, US imperialism & US intervention also bad”.

IF YOU ARE SICK STAY HOME!!! AND IF YOU NEED TO GO OUT WEAR A MASK!!! It is literally infuriating how now every single time I take public transit I encounter unmasked coughing assholes. PSA that the flu vaccine is still free for everyone in Quebec with a RAMQ card! I highly suggest you get it!

I was eating at a Sichuan spot & the table next to me was a white Québécois man on a date with a Chinese woman. He complained to her about “uncontrolled immigration” & mansplained the whole time while she sat there quietly. At one point he asked her “do you know who Winston Churchill is?” UGH.

I see so many people coughing in public transit & public spaces & I’m so annoyed. If you are sick, stay the fuck home. If you absolutely HAVE to go out, please wear a mask & keep your distances from other people as much as possible 😷😷

Canada finally reacts, through our foreign affairs minister (not our prime minister). Really, embarrassingly timid statement when you consider what just happened.

En 2026, je ne veux plus voir de personnes blanches qui ouvrent des commerces (souvent médiocres d’ailleurs!) de matcha, de thé aux perles, de restos asiatiques « fusion » JUSTE parce que la culture asiatique - particulièrement la culture japonaise - est trendy. Nos cultures ne sont pas à vendre.

Plus de Kamataki (film de 2005) où un acteur blanc joue un gars mixte blanc-japonais! Plus de films/séries où un.e blanc.he « sauve » le personnage asiatique de sa culture asiatique suffoquante! Plus d’orientalisme du genre « l’Asie c’est mystérieux et ancré dans des traditions millénaires »!

En 2026, je veux voir les personnes asiatiques au Québec prendre plus de place dans l’espace public. Je veux voir des représentations asiatiques qui reflètent adéquatement nos diverses réalités sans tomber dans les stéréotypes.

For anyone who is wondering about how my learning of Cantonese is going, just know that I am watching a Hong Kong drama that I thought was set in a corporate office…but it was actually set in a hospital.

I don't know who needs to hear this but there is a professional hockey league with lots of gay players!!! It's called the Professional Women's Hockey League And they could use your support! www.thepwhl.com/en/

For 2026, all I ask is for Montreal to keep partying alive. We already have a frigid winter, worrisome upcoming provincial elections, a dysfunctional healthcare system, a crumbling education system & a housing crisis. Just let us have a good time. Don’t let gentrifying Karens kill the nightlife.

On this NYE I am in mourning because NosThés just announced they are closing down. Where am I going to get non-powdered Taiwanese oolong bubble tea with zero sugar & oat milk now? Or fresh fruit bubble tea? Or salt & pepper tofu rice? I am devastated.

Just watched the Star Wars OG trilogy & sequel trilogy for the 1st time in my life. I think there should be a Star Wars movie where the empire is defeated for good & all surviving empire collaborators are dragged into intergalactic criminal court to be charged for their crimes against the galaxy.

I’m glad K-beauty & Asian beauty is getting more mainstream in the West. But folks need to stop buying Botox & fillers from South Korea & injecting themselves at home. It’s dangerous! Please go to a med spa with licensed professionals! The money you save isn’t worth going to the ER or DYING!

Seeing people getting scammed out of over a grand for hair. Last time I was at the salon, the stylist gave me a cut, bleached & dyed my entire long East Asian black hair a vibrant red, curled it. I was there for 5+ hours. All for less than 500$ - tips & taxes included. DO NOT PAY 1K+ FOR HAIR!