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Yao

Recent Yao posts

Two panel comic of Baopu, an Asian queer person with red hair. In the first panel Baopu is buying a plane ticket home and asking, "I wonder who I am when I am 'back home.'" In the second, they are on the plane and still wondering, "Will I maintain a sense of self or regress really hard?"

Baopu #113: Visiting Home

Yao Xiao June 17, 2023
A drawn image of Baopu (an Asian queer person with red hair) walking around in an invisible boxed cage.

Baopu #112: Grieving Is Hard

Yao Xiao May 20, 2023
Two panel comic in shades of pink and blue show Baopu, an Asian person with red hair, wondering about "perpetual depth and mystery... automatic alienation??"

Baopu 111: Life In Third Person

Yao Xiao April 22, 2023
In a two panel comic, in shades of twilight purple and yellow, Baopu — an Asian person with red hair — snuggles their cat in bed.

Baopu #110: Twilight Hours

Yao Xiao March 25, 2023
Baopu, a drawing of an Asian person with red hair, is going down a neon green spiral slide that's drawn in the middle of a blue, fluffy clouds sky.

Baopu #109: Don’t Spiral

Yao Xiao February 25, 2023

Baopu #108: In Winter, Don’t Forget to Stretch

Yao Xiao January 28, 2023
In a two panel comic, Baopu — an Asian person with red hair — sits at a desk and contemplates making a New Year's resolution.

Baopu #107: Leave Room For Your Future Self

Yao Xiao December 31, 2022

Baopu #106: A Cat Kind of Morning

Yao Xiao December 3, 2022
In a two panel comic with a watercolor pink background, there is a orange jack-o-latern head that says "I haven't cried for a long time" and the one next to it shows Baopu in close up, their hands are covering their face, and it reads "There's too much to process"

Baopu #105: A Good Cry

Yao Xiao November 5, 2022
Yao is a cartoon image of an Asian person with red hair who is writing thought bubbles on top of an abstract black and yellow background: "can anyone hear?" and "I'm here"

Baopu #104: Diaspora Time

Yao Xiao October 8, 2022
A drawing of a multiple layer black circle, with the following lettering in blue: creating so many different kinds of art. Falling into the black swirls are two stick figures.

Baopu #103: Where I’m Going We Are Together

Yao Xiao September 10, 2022
A two panel comic, left to right: "Make a Whole New Body of Work" is written on top of a yellow background in front of a on old school typewriter (t's red) and hands typing, then "Relaxing all day long like a beautiful cloud" is written in a blue sky full of cloud imagery

Baopu #102: What Did I Do This Summer?

Yao Xiao August 13, 2022
A drawing of Yao (an Asian person with red hair and a pointy black hat) using a green watering can to water a large lower with pink petals against a blue sky.

Baopu #101: Effortlessly High Expectations

Yao Xiao July 16, 2022
Three boxes say: Intellecutalizing (yellow, with Baopu reading a book), Nostalgia (pink, with Baopu looking out unto the grass), and Indulging (blue, with Baopu reaching out with arms stretched). The three boxes are connected by yellow and red bands.

Baopu #100: Processing Intergenerational Trauma, A Chart

Yao Xiao June 18, 2022
A cartoon drawing of Yao, who has red short hair in a pixie cut, a purple shirt and pointy purple hat, and cream scarf, laying on the grass with their cat. They are thinking in a thought bubble.

Baopu #99: It’s Never Over

Yao Xiao May 21, 2022
In a two panel comic that's colored in shades of yellow, Yao walks into a kitchen at night and then finds themself over a large pot of dark soup, which they stir with a spoon.

Baopu #97: Ancestry

Yao Xiao March 26, 2022
Baopu is a drawn cartoon with red hair underneath a navy blue cap and matching coat, wearing a mask. They are walking among trees with no leaves and brown stems. Above them are the words "It's easy to get over-whelmed..."

Baopu #96: Winter Thoughts

Yao Xiao February 26, 2022
Baopu is against a yellow background with three different objects covering their face: a raincloud, an actual covid mask, and a group of flamboyant feathers

Baopu #94: Which 2022 Mask Are You?

Yao Xiao January 8, 2022
A seat, gloves, boots, scissors, and paint. All in bright colors of yellow and pink along with black-and-white

Baopu #93: Cozy Winter Wish List

Yao Xiao December 4, 2021
An outline of a turquoise blue hand with following text, "You are a person, not an idea. Try harder"

Baopu #92: Seeing The Present

Yao Xiao November 6, 2021
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