Uptown/Downtown: Diary of a Hong Kong Dyke in Nineties Toronto

From: Any Other Way

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Karen Chan recounts the eventful week leading up to her twenty third birthday in August, 1998.

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Karen B.K. Chan

Karen B. K. Chan is a queerdo from Hong Kong. Her small, middle-class astronaut family emigrated to Toronto in 1987 during the mass exodus before the 1997 handover. Fluent in Cantonese but also someone who passes as Canadian-born, BK loves navigating between communities, stories, and meanings.