Carielyn Tunion-Lam / 林嘉蓮 (she/they) is a writer, videopoet, educator, cultural worker with a background in screen and media arts. She has also worked in the community sector supporting migrant and refugee women; and has experience in creative approaches for grassroots community organising.
Carielyn’s work explores themes of yearning and radical nostalgia from an anticolonial diasporic perspective. She is interested in conjuring worlds, cracking open the ancestral bone to suck the marrow of identity, desire, and myth.
Carielyn’s ancestral roots are in the archipelago of the so-called Philippines and Kowloon, Hong Kong. She currently lives, studies, works and treads respectfully on unceded Burramattagal on Dharug country.
