Our first essay is live. ✨ We begin with a queer reading of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue that exposes Japanese imperial power as heteronormative and unstable. reframe-academia.com/taiwan-trave... [re]frame is officially taking shape 📚 — more essays to come.

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Yesterday's @gapsnet.bsky.social #PostcolonialStudies conference ended with a most moving, artfully delivered #poetry reading by #SouthAfricanPoet & scholar Uhuru Portia Phalafala from her epic poem "Mine Mine Mine" on the intergenerational trauma of miners & their families #BlackStudies

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It's the final day of @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference and the day started on a high note with 3 great papers on plantation capitalism by @espinoza.bsky.social on the #Plantationocene & Caitlin Vandertop on the Oceanic novel & Annabell Fender on the Italian honeybee as worker/prisoner in #Australia

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Another great panel at @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference heard Cherise Fung talk about silence & agency of Asian women in care, Tola Ositelu on meritocracy in 3 #memoirs by Black British women, and Dorit Neumann on Danaé Wellington's poem "The blue jeans asks her" #BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies

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In the panel " #CulturalStudies Approaches to Neoliberal Capitalism" @gapsnet.bsky.social Alexander Rüter spoke abt startup mentality & Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock", Nora Pleßke read Beukes' "Zoo City" w Orwell and Harald Pittel talked about #IndianCinema #Bollywood & cinema halls in crisis

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