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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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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 Problem with Representasians: A Series
Link round-up (to be updated as the series develops) Introduction (this post!) – What’s the problem? Why am I doing this? Who am I? What do I hope to get out of this? Representasian 101: What is FRIED RICE? On being hungry for faces. Conventional ESEA narratives, my journey out of representasianism, and the case…
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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…
