Following last year’s theme of Bodies, Ghosts opens up the realm of the subconscious, of history, of Bodies of a past time. All around us, Ghosts lingers–familiar as family, terrifying as what goes bump in the night, mysterious as what lingers unheard and unseen–and shapes the present with its omnipresence: Ghosts of colonialism, Ghosts of imperialism. Ghosts is horror. Ghosts is macabre. Ghosts is legends. But Ghosts is also a gesture toward the past, toward everything and everyone we’ve lost. It can be haunting, but also a comfort–through grief, we remember what used to be, where we have come from, and who has come before us.
Margins is a multi-media, collaborative publication devoted to centering the narratives of Asian Americans and Asians in America. This publication is an intervention in the Asian/American community and an invitation for Asian/Americans to engage in more nuanced conversations about identity. We aim to (re)politicize Asian/American identity.
