Rachel Lau is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and library worker. Inspired by the tenderness and strength of the queer and racialized communities that raised them, they create work that embraces feeling and communality. Their current practice includes sound art, poetry, photography, drawing, and zine-making. Currently, Rachel is a co-librarian of Queer Reads Library, a mobile library of independently published queer books and zines based in Hong Kong, London, and Vancouver.
Living in this imperialist-white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy (to borrow from bell hooks), they believe that creating and communing with one another is both a salve and a tool of resistance against these oppressive structures.
Rachel graduated from the Bachelor of Media Studies program, with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian migration studies, at the University of British Columbia.
With roots in Hong Kong and Toisan, Rachel is living and working as a Cantonese settler on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations, colonially known as “Vancouver, BC”.
Open to collaborations, commissions, and zine trades! To get in touch, send an email to hello [at] racholau [dot] com. You can also find them on Instagram @racholau.