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Michelle Chen

Michelle Chen is a writer and historian based in New York City, and co-hosts the podcasts Belabored and Asia Pacific Forum.

By Michelle Chen:
What’s Next for Pearl River Mart
Moustafa Bayoumi on Politics and Protest in the Trump Era
Making and Unmaking the Asian American Movement
A River Rolls On
Digging a Hole to China
When a Small Business Takes a Great Leap Forward
Rogue State: Jeff Biggers on the Arizonification of America
Good Fortune, Long Life
Fifty Years of Pearl River Mart

Recent Articles

  • José Olivarez on The Source
    Interviews
    By jnatarajan

    Episode 4 of The Source

    Editor’s Note: An Omega Kan Satuyang Osipon | The Omega of Our Osipon
    By Kristian Sendon Cordero

    Our guest editor introduces our folio Osipon

    Ang Osong na si Beatriz | The Osong That Is Beatriz
    By Raniela E. Barbaza

    Ang babae sa osipon ni Ana T. Calixto |
    The woman in Ana T. Calixto’s osipon

    Osipon: About the Art
    By Kristian Sendon Cordero

    Rustom Pujado’s prognostics, signs, and gnosis

    Bangkera | The Boatwoman
    Fiction
    By Emmanuel Barrameda

    Hanggang sa maging desperado, sasayaw at mag-aalay ng itlog kay Sta. Clara sa Obando, magdadasal sa iba pang Santa at Birhen, maglalakad nang paluhod sa simbahan ng Quiapo at Baclaran. | Desperation sets in, and they dance and offer eggs to Santa Clara in Obando, walk on their knees inside the Quiapo and Baclaran shrines.

    Kuminalpos an Silaod | Slipped the Snare
    Fiction
    By Ana T. Calixto

    Nagugustuhan mo palan an ugali ni Polding, ay ngata naman ta si Don Lope pa an saimong pinanugaan na pakakasalan? |
    If it’s Polding’s character that you like, why did you pledge to marry Don Lope?

    Revolt from Hymen
    Poetry
    By Angela Manalang-Gloria

    O to be free at last

    Kung Tawagin Siya’y Angela Buruka: Sa Alaala ni Angela Manalang-Gloria | And We Call Her Angela Buruka: In Memory of Angela Manalang-Gloria
    By Niles Jordan Breis

    A writer contends with the legacy of a difficult, much-hated local woman who was also a giant of Philippine letters.

    A Omegang Babayi | The Omega Woman
    Poetry
    By Francisco V. Peñones, Jr.

    Lumuwas ika o magraan dagos |
    Get out of the ring, or you’ll die in pain

    Funeral for My Twenties
    Poetry
    By Saba Keramati

    The firewood was dry, and burned clean and smokeless. A soft orange.

    Safety Pin
    Poetry
    By Luisa A. Igloria

    Safety is a body with a place to hide in.

    Tall Tale: An Abecedarian from Father to Son
    Poetry
    By Ira Sukrungruang

    Witness your father in this white world, withered, without will.

    With these crows for hands, I caress a flower
    Poetry
    By Yunkyo Moon-Kim

    The body of wings breeds a body of wings

    Douglas Kearney on The Source
    Interviews
    By The Source, Douglas Kearney

    Episode 3 of The Source

    Birth Country
    Poetry
    By Nghiem Tran

    Changeling, mythical animal, delighting in the chase

    A Bollywood Story
    Poetry
    By Gauri Awasthi

    Even that night father refused to play the hero.

    Who’s Afraid of Teaching?
    Essays
    By Shubha Sunder

    On learning to navigate the experiences and biases that we bring into the classroom, whether teacher or student.

    therapy exercise // tension
    Poetry
    By Genevieve Hartman

    tell me why the image of tree bark makes you cry

    Dear Ma,
    Poetry
    By Jingyu Li

    you grow your own tomatoes now
    you smile at your harvest.

    Reconnecting with the Sea, Reconnecting with My People
    Essays
    By Judi Mae “JM” Huck

    Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?

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