My Big Fat Greek Dilemma
Peter Koralis showed his grandmother a photo of a White-Asian girl at Easter. She had one thing to say. This is the essay about what followed — on intergenerational difference, Greek-Australian identity, and the guilt of wanting your own life
Crazy Rich (not) Hot Asian
She told him he looked good — for an Asian. Xinyu Liao spent the next week thinking about what that meant. This is the essay that followed: on internalised racism, Asian masculinity, and what it would look like to redefine all of it at once.
1.5 Meters Apart, Please
Thomas Tran wrote this in 2020, when the streets were empty and the toilet paper was gone. Three years on, it reads less like a personal essay and more like a document — precise, historically literate, and a little bit furious
See, the thing is
David Truong went to James Busby High School. 80 of the 120 students who started graduated. About 15 made it to university. This is the story he has never told publicly — and the one that explains everything about why Foci exists.