Speculative fiction writer, translator, and editor

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sexuality is invisible too

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  March 1, 2015  •  0 Comments
Lanterns & clouds

I’ve been having a discussion on tumblr that started with a post I saw about how some people who ship Mako and Korra have been calling it a queer relationship. I said that I saw why people were upset about that, but I also understood the relationship as queer because I’ve experienced bisexual erasure in […]

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stop ma’aming me

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  February 28, 2015  •  0 Comments
Lanterns & clouds

I know you’re being polite, but: stop ma’aming me stop calling me a lady or a gal or a girl stop assuming that I’m a woman stop referencing me with she/her pronouns How I experience gender is separate from how I present myself physically. Gender is invisible, and, the more comfortable I am in understanding my […]

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Sparkling Orange Blossom Lemonade

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  February 27, 2015  •  2 Comments
orange blossoms

Hello world, and welcome to Mintly Life! I’ll be posting recipes, DIY instructions, and other fun domestic stuff. Thanks to Iuri and Nao for encouraging me to start my own lifestyle blog. 🙂 This recipe has a couple of inspirations. First, about a week ago, I followed a recipe for gunpowder lemonade from Afro-Vegan by Bryant […]

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Nomenclature

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  December 13, 2014  •  0 Comments
Terms naming new public sites

I have a fascination with the act of naming. Roman Mars and Graham Coreil-Allen do a fantastic job of summing up naming’s power and allure in the episode “Names vs The Nothing” of 99% Invisible: Roman Mars     So it all comes back to a name against a nothing. When you give a nothing a name, […]

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Invasion vs. Expansion

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  December 10, 2014  •  0 Comments
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[This post was saved as a draft. It was a copy of a response to a message on Tumblr and shows the discourse at the time around the concept now known as “women and nonbinary.” I still experience both fluidity and alienation around “women’s spaces,” and this post shows nascent thoughts about the continuing problems […]

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Ra(i)ze

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  December 9, 2014  •  0 Comments
Ra(i)ze cover

These are the words we needed when we were growing up inside of the heart of American empire. I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2012 and, to my knowledge, there were no zines like this in the works when I was there. So I’m elated to see students from my alma mater organizing now as radical Asians and […]

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Dieselpunk road map

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  December 6, 2014  •  0 Comments
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In thinking about dieselpunk’s aesthetics and historical context and how to engage with that without glorifying war and Nazis or relying on Orientalist tropes, I plan on going through a list of media and articles to set a baseline for dieselpunk as it’s currently expressed and discussed. I’ll be adding to this regularly.

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Disorienting semantics

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  December 6, 2014  •  0 Comments
Lanterns & clouds

When I say “disorienting”, I mean it in the traditional sense of the word: I want us to lose our bearings, to stray from the paths we know. I want us to be lost. I want us to deconstruct and dismantle the familiar and unfamiliar. In disorienting us, I want to offer us the opportunity to reclaim our […]

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