Rachel Lau
Individual
Roles
Artist, WriterBiography
Rachel Lau is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and community organizer. 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 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. 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.Rachel Lau, 2023