manifesto!

We are a group of young people coming from multicultural upbringings, with emphasis on mixed and Southeast asian perspectives. We believe in art as a means of interpersonal connection, and a prompt for multilateral reflection website: fishsaucemagazine.com content by:

We want to bridge the gap between young people of mixed cultural and racial backgrounds, and spotlight the common ground shared between children of 2nd or 3rd cultures.

We are all currently living outside our places of birth, and are always looking to reconcile our heritage with the influences around us through film, poetry, writing, art and photography.

Anya Somwaiya (graphic designer + editor)

Alex Taylor-Anton

Bambi Thammongkol

Mina Anttila

Cleo Nicholson

Jake Roiter

Kamori Osthananda

Mariana Serrano

Prudence Rakamnuaykit

Abby Igbosoroeze

I'm hanging out the back of your friend's pickup truck. Ghostly arms limp toward the hot earth, my body the wrong side up, the sky melts into the static roll of asphalt when I go down, down, down.

We work the same nighttime hours. Dust is dancing in the space. Empty, orange highway. The roaring cold counting my raven hair, beehive taller than Bayok.

Cement powder licked hands on the waist of my babydoll dress. If you let go, I die.

One day, I'll just sing. My pictures will be on every construction boy's wall. We'll both go home up-country in the cold season and throw gold around like tamarind seeds. Sometimes, I put them in a big bowl and take handfuls. Shiny shells that feel like they should be worth something. But they're not.

They're worth nothing, because everyone says so.

Everyone says so. I won't let them say anything about me. I'll be more than you'll let me be.

Who says I'm not the queen mother draped in gold? Hanging over your family's dinner table.

I'm a girl with gills in the murkiness of a jungle waterfall. I've been this way for more than a thousand years.

by anya somwaiya

So, don't look at me so sordidly. Don't say we've nothing to eat but fishsauce and kanom jeen. The world is empty. Ours completely. Nighttime eternally. Hold or die.

Change is more than a pain-point. No matter where you are living or where you are in history, when you're young, sometimes you feel like you have the whole world to run after. Below are gems from cinema dedicated to the nostalgic, love-struck, vibrant, turbulent, disillusioned and hopeful transitional phase that is adolescence, through the lens of Thai youth.