Veni has been working as an event organiser for about five to six years. She is one of the founding committee members of the Hong Kong Event Professionals Union (HKEPU). The coronavirus hit the economy hard while they were organising the union. As the industry faces unprecedented challenges, HKEPU bears the responsibility to immediately spring to action.
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Kenji Wong, a branding and design specialist, founder of Growthring & Co and has been openly supporting the protest since the beginning. He also participates in local pro-democracy content creation and even spreads those works widely in Japan. See his thoughts on blindly supporting brands based on their political stance and the importance of assessing their quality.
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Barry is in his 50s, and is working in public relations for an international brand. He married his husband, Fred, in Canada 10 years ago and they have been together for over 20 years. They own a gay bar in SOHO, Hong Kong. Barry has come out to his family, friends and colleagues with one regret. Find out why he regrets not coming out to his mom before she passed away in 2002.
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Alfred Wong is a cardiologist in a Hong Kong public hospital. In order to protect his family, he moved away to stay in a hotel, and has only seen his wife a few times so far.
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RWBB is a ‘90s kid born and raised in Hong Kong. He’s currently an office worker and deems himself an otaku. His hobbies are drawing and writing, and in 2013 he made a Facebook page, “RWBB”, to share different facets of life in Hong Kong with netizens.
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Cave Bliss is an Australian in her 40s. Her husband is currently living and working in Hong Kong. Find out how they were swept up in a protest in their neighbourhood and how this experience galvanised their fight alongside HongKongers.
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Yip Yat-chee, a pioneer in analysing current affairs and politics on social media. On his pages “Renegades’ Park” and the self-titled “Yip Yat-chee,” he uses a direct and precise writing style described as “killing without spilling blood” to influence generations of PRN (peaceful, rational, non-violent) readers.
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Brianna Yip is a Hong Konger is her 20s- 30s. Brianna was born in Canada but grew up in Hong Kong. She now works as a school psychologist in San Francisco. Find out how she is spreading awareness and campaigning support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement despite being far away from Hong Kong.
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You’d think that the kids who are not seriously injured would be able to return home, but they may actually be financially cut off by their parents and locked out of their homes. Some are threatened by their parents with knives at home. In one case, the father even threatened his daughter and said, “I’ll send you to get raped.” There are many more unimaginable cases. We provide safehouses because we want to help the elderly and the young. We don’t have specific expectations to accomplish, but we just want to keep them safe.
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Sports puts the spirit of perseverance on the table, which can bring quite some inspiration and encouragement to Hong Kong. The situation in Hong Kong now is like Watford VS Liverpool in the recent Premier League football match, the relegation-threatened versus the European Champion. And guess what? The bottom feeder defeated the European Champion by 3-0!The only difference is that football matches are closely scheduled so that even if you mess up, you could always try harder next time; yet with us, this might actually be our last chance.
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I fell in love with Hong Kong one New Year trip many years ago. Because of my fond memories of Hong Kong, it has been incredibly difficult to watch how violence is currently unfolding. Despite the chaos, there have been many incredibly heartwarming moments that were captured on screen—I am glad that this “Hong Kong spirit” is still alive.
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