Dr. Yao Sweden Xiao 蕭堯 (he/they) is an educator, writer, and scholar in Chinese cultural studies, critical Asian studies, Asia/Africa interface, and social justice education. He teaches in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, as well as the Department of Educational Studies, at The University of British Columbia. Dr. Xiao’s collaborative research has been published in international journals such as Cultural Studies, Critical Arts, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, and Postcolonial Directions in Education. He is an Associate Editor of Critical Arts, a Steering Committee Member of the Centre for Culture, Identity, and Education, and a founding member of Critical Alternatives, a knowledge network committed to unlearning imperialism and platforming pluriversal ways of being. A non-binary Cantonese-Hakka first-generation immigrant settler of colour on Turtle Island, Dr. Xiao has spent over a decade accompanying/walking/working with grassroots seniors and youth in and around Vancouver Chinatown, centring intergenerational memories, non-Anglophone-dominant practices, and forms of care that are non-extractive, non-savior, and grounded in reciprocal learning.