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It was once a source of shame, but now I say it proudly: bad English is my heritage. I share a literary lineage with writers who make the unmastering of English their rallying cry—who queer it, twerk it, hack it, Calibanize it, other it by hijacking English and warping it to a fugitive tongue. To other English is to make audible the imperial power
... See moreCathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
rhapsodizing
Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
staged encounters.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
In Bodies In Dissent (2021), Essi’s camera traces how performance histories migrate across time and preserve evidence of our lives.
How we carry the past “within ourselves, across generations, across histories, and across the Atlantic”
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The New York of the thirties was very different from Paris: “not so much beauty and tradition as native fantasia emerging from accelerated greed.” Abbott’s book is aptly titled, for she is not so much memorializing the past as simply documenting ten years of the chronic self-destruct quality of American experience, in which even the recent past is
... See moreSusan Sontag • On Photography
And then you heard Dao make this snarling, weaselish shriek. To hear that shriek in the public setting of an economy-class cabin stopped the heart. It was mortifying. He might as well have soiled himself. How many years did it take to prove that he was a well-spoken man?
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
DC is being gentrified like major cities everywhere. It raises the question: To whom does this place belong? That is a local question, but it is also an existential one. We are literally still fighting over whether Black people belong to their home places and whether their home places belong to them. Once, the formerly enslaved migrated to DC with
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