Living for Them, Living for Me: A Readers Theatre of Asian-Canadian Youth Navigating Post-Pandemic Precarity and Parental Pressures

Queenie Tang-Ly; Christopher Kao

doi:10.25071/1929-8471.171

Living for Them, Living for Me: A Readers Theatre of Asian-Canadian Youth Navigating Post-Pandemic Precarity and Parental Pressures

Authors

Queenie Tang-Ly Faculty of Health and Education, York University https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1637-8198
Christopher Kao Faculty of Science, Biology program, York University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.171

Keywords:

identity, parental pressure, post-pandemic, asian-canadian, youth

Abstract

We are a group of Asian-Canadian youth who collaborated on this Readers Theatre (RT) script to explore our shared experiences navigating early adulthood during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Our topic centered on the uncertainties of life nearing graduation, the difficulties of finding a career, family expectations and relations, and fading friendships during the years of the pandemic. We arrived at this topic through group discussions about how the pandemic altered not only our academic plans but our relationships with our identities, family and friends.

Key words: Readers Theatre, youth, identity, arts-based research.

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Published

2026-01-21

How to Cite

Tang-Ly, Q., & Kao, C. (2026). Living for Them, Living for Me: A Readers Theatre of Asian-Canadian Youth Navigating Post-Pandemic Precarity and Parental Pressures. INYI Journal. https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.171