WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? WHERE ARE WE REALLY GOING? (2025)

book written by Sharon Chen, Karissa Korman, Jennie Nhi Le, Juliana George, Kevin 森 Zhang, Jesica Bak, and Florenz Blancaflor as Illume Magazine.

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Where Are You Really From? Where Are We Really Going? is a book of essays, poems, and visual contributions that span geographies and temporalities to examine the construction of “Asian America”, its limits, and its possibilities. Written by the team of seven at illume magazine, the book serves as a critical intervention—an invitation to reckon with the histories we inherit and the futures we must collectively shape.

ISBN 979-8-218-66975-1; April 2025, 6.7” x 9.8”, 62 pages, saddle-stitched on newsprint.

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