Angry Yellow Woman is Vera Choks debut collection. Is Vera a woman, though? And how yellow are they? The anger is real. These playful, searching, and violently sexy pieces expose Vera's immigrant-hobo journey through the landscapes, beds, and bodies of the UK and beyond. They were scratched out to understand an alien identity. Theyre a record of how - and where - Vera has tried to locate safety and joy. At the ends of the earth, or down Bethnal Green station? It might be a coming-of-age tale, but this Colonised body seems stuck dreaming of the Empire - flat nose pressed up against the window of Tesco, Chinese eyes wide, hungry. Mouth sighing Malay.
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Product Details
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 11 Apr 2024
Publisher: Burning Eye Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781913958473
About Vera Chok
Vera (they/she) is a queer Malaysian-Chinese actor funny-person poet and dogmum. They are both Disruptor and Homemaker. Best known as a co-author of The Good Immigrant Vera wrote the chapter Yellow which exploded ideas around East Asianness. Vera has been published by The Guardian Bloomsbury and Brain Mill Press and in Rising and Transect magazine. They have been commissioned by The Roundhouse CNN WeTransfer and Hakkasan Group and funded by The British Council. Their writing has been performed at The Roundhouse Shakespeare North Rich Mix and at Byline Stoke Newington Dinefwr Cambridge and Bare Lit Festivals. Vera is also a regular participant and sometimes champion of Varjack & Simpsons Anti-Slam. Vera co-founded The Brautigan Book Club was a resident artist at the Bethnal Green Working Mens Club and the actor who played Honour Chen-Williams head of the first ever East Asian family in any UK continuing drama. They produce both gently joyful happenings and mischievous chaotic celebrations to platform historically marginalised groups.