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Yuzhen Cai
JoinedSeptember 1, 2020
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Yuzhen Cai is a freelance illustrator and researcher living in London. Originally from China, her mixed cultural background grounded her illustration interests in community, communication and cross-cultural issues. She hopes to use her practice to communicate and engage with narratives of multi-cultures for a wider social impact. She is also passionate about children’s picture books on migration. She is currently doing her masters of research in communication design at the Royal College of Art. Her recent works have been selected by Secret-7’’ 2020. She was also long listed by Book Illustration Competition 2020 and MacMillan Prize 2019. Instagram: @yu.zhen.cai www.yuzhen.cargo.site

The dawn of the pro-choice movement in Bhutan

When I first started out as an advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) eight years ago, I had no idea how passionate I would become about the issue. Initially, it was a little baffling to unpack the issue of abortion. Growing up in a religious society, there...
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Looking for: Connection

Prompted by a BuzzFeed quiz designed to find out which type of Gay I was, I decided to put down my thoughts on the topic of queer identities. The quiz asked me about my body build, sexual position, body hair, types of men I was attracted to, and so on....
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#Challenge kind-of accepted: The story of Femicide in Turkey

In early August, black-and-white images of women I knew started appearing on my timeline with the hashtag #ChallengeAccepted and #WomenSupportingWomen. It seemed to be a nice but meaningless exercise to post a good selfie with a vague caption about feminine energy. I politely ignored the nominations directed towards me. I...
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