Poetry

ေပါက္ပင္

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Kcmmaung • Leave a comment

Words by Mara အျဖဴအစိမ္း ေက်ာင္းဝတ္ညီညာ သပ္ရပ္ခ်ပ္ရပ္ သင္တို႔လွေနတာ.. အျပံဳးေတြ ပ်ိဳမ်စ္ ေျခလွမ္းႂကြႂကြ သင္တို႔အမႈထမ္းေနတာ… အို..ဆရာမေလးမ်ား.. ငယ္ရြယ္ခြန္အား ထက္ေသာစိတ္ထား ျမတ္ဝါသနာတို႔ႏွင့္ အၿပိဳင္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေသာ သင္တို႔.. ဘဝအလွေတြၿပိဳင္၍ လွေစခ်င္စမ္းမိ.. ဤမ်ွမက.. ပညာဝတ္ရည္ စုပ္ယူ႐ွင္သန္ ေရာင္စံုအဖူးပြင့္ကေလးမ်ား.. ဘဝမ်ား.. အစြမ္းရိွသမ်ွ သာ၍ ပြင့္လန္းေစခ်င္မိ… သို႔ေသာ္… ဘဝဟူသည္.. ‘ဘ’ ဟု ‘ဝ’ စြာ ေခၚရသည့္တလွည့္ သင္၏ခြန္အား အၿပိဳင္ေပးဆပ္မႈအား အမိေျမမွ ဆုမေျမႇာက္ႏိုင္အားလည္း သင္သည္.. မငိုေလနဲ႔ .. ဤေျမသည္ မ်က္ ရည္ ခမ္းရာေျမ.. ဤေျမသည္ ႏွစ္႐ွည္က်ိန္စာသင့္ေျမ.. စိတ္, စည္း, ပညာ ခမ္းရာေျမ.. ငါတို႔သည္.. က်ိန္စာဖ်က္ရန္.. တိုးထြက္႐ွင္သန္ရေသာ.. ေျမျပင္မွ.. … Continue reading →

Out In The Open

Out In The Open: Emi Grate, Drag Queen

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Kcmmaung • Leave a comment

Note from the editor: I first came across Emi Grate through a Facebook group for Burmese Queer Straight Alliances where I saw a photo of her in drag. She was dressed in a red yin phone with a gold shawl draped over her shoulders: she looked stunning, to say the least. Being a fan of … Continue reading →

Paintings

တိမ္

Posted on February 11, 2017 by mandyethmaximus • Leave a comment

Words and artwork by: So Pyay Win တိမ္ဆိုတာ ျပိဳပ်က္ လႊင့္ပ်ယ္ ပ်က္သုန္း ေျပေပ်ာက္ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ရဲ႕ ျပယုဂ္ ထုထည္ အပိုင္းအစ အလွတရား အေရာင္ဆိုတာ တဒဂၤရဲ႕ ျပယုဂ္။ စိုျပည္ဝင္း Color of sunset 9-12″ Watercolor Urban sunset 9-12″ Watercolor Rays of light 9-12″ Watercolor Continue reading →

Out In The Open

Out in the Open: Gavin Aung Than of ZenPencils

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Kcmmaung • Leave a comment

Gavin Aung Than spent eight years working in the corporate graphic design industry before doing something that not a lot of people have the courage to do. He quit. He then pursued his true passion of drawing cartoons. Today he has two books of … Continue reading →

The Third Culture Opinion

Racism In The House

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Kcmmaung • Leave a comment

By Millenial May Thu Anyone who has studied and lived outside of Myanmar has returned to find that their culture is – and maddeningly, has always been – an inherently racist culture. Most days we are subject to casual conversations wherein any person who happens to have dark skin is immediately condemned as “evil”. Furthermore, … Continue reading →

Essays

The Art of Emotional Blackmail

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Kcmmaung • Leave a comment

Words by Inzali Most people who have grown up in a Burmese household will agree that emotional blackmail is a staple in our social discourse. I can bet that you have either seen, heard of, or even experienced emotional blackmail yourself. How do you know? Let’s identify what emotional blackmail is. According to Out of … Continue reading →

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