About

“In a fractal conception, I am a cell-sized unit of the human organism, and I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do. This means actually being in my life, and it means bringing my values into my daily decision making. Each day should be lived on purpose.”

Adrienne Maree Brown

I am a dancer, designer and doer-of-many-things currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

Born and raised in Pulau Pinang, I spent time in Singapura and the United States/Turtle Island before recently relocating to KL. As a queer Malaysian Chinese-Thai settler, I descend from Teochew women who crossed the sea and built families through war; custodians, teachers, factory workers, merchants and shopkeepers; and my family that now acquires wealth through property development. I am learning to live in constant contradiction.

I’m deeply interested in spaces where activism and the arts live together. Through dance, performance, artmaking, websites, collective living, teaching, facilitation and community-based justice work, I am learning my place in the ecosystem of our world. My work is rooted in storytelling; land, place and histories; unlearning colonialism and capitalism; listening to our bodies; community care and interdependence; redistributing resources; and imagining otherwise. 

I’ve worked as: a web and graphic designer / visual artist / dance theatre performer / dance and drama teacher / video producer and editor / writer. Organisations I’ve worked with and been a part of include: Horizontal, IncluDe Innovation, Apprentice Learning, Queerit, Danza Orgánica, Mission Hill School, the Tufts University Women's Center and All Women's Action Society (AWAM) Malaysia. 

I hold a B.A. from Tufts University, where I studied the intersection of social justice, pedagogy and the arts, through double majors in American Studies (Race and Ethnic Studies) and Education, and minors in Dance and Colonialism Studies.