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Onlookers
A review of Tasnim Siddiqa Amin’s work-in-progress, THE PIGS ARE COMING, and reflections on the role of art and culture in counterinsurgency.
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A critique of East Side Voices
Attempting to break the seal of the ESEA critical vacuum by discussing ‘East Side Voices’ (2022). Can we move on from relatability to asking who does the work of seeing in your community?
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Against diaspora – has ethnic identity failed to organise? (guest post by A.L.)
A.L.’s essay questioning the usefulness of ‘Chinese diaspora’ as an organising principle in a UK context.
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Dear Yellow People (2021)
NOTE: This is a piece of writing from 4 years ago that was first published in Abolitionist Approaches to Hate Crime by Remember & Resist. I remember being very nervous when they asked me to write something because I didn’t really come from an organising background: all I did was co-run a small queer community…
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2. Representasianism 101: What is FRIED RICE?
What is FRIED RICE? On representasianism as fear, reformism, image, exceptionalism, deference, respectability, innocence, counterinsurgency and entanglement.
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With Her Diamond Teeth (2016) – or, where are the ESEA freaks?
It feels like I should be writing more important things, but I’m sharing an old short story in an effort to resist the idea that diasporic ESEAs need to only make affirming, empowering, likeable, morally uplifting, and relatable art because “we” have supposedly only just become a viable consumer identity, marketable audience, and sociological category.…
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The British Museum, deference, and how we are stuck in 2020 ESEA discourse exhibit no. 45967
I understand and see your struggle with shame and still challenge you to want something else. Start writing, drawing, doing, saying, realising different things.
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The Problem with Representasians: A Series
Link round-up (to be updated as the series develops) Introduction What is this? After much consideration, I’ve decided it would be helpful to dedicate a series of posts to analysing the thing I call representasianism. In brief, this is a framework that reduces all social problems faced by Asians as problematic representation in media roles,…
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2024 Round-up (Spoilers: Representasians Were Losers)
What is left to say? The struggle is protracted. What we do has to proliferate and sustain resistance. This year, my friends at Remember & Resist collaborated with me to produce two zines. One is our manifesto, the Yellow Peril Self-Awareness Manual. This is our offering to those among our approximate class (intelligentsia, nonprofit workers…
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