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WRAP-UP: January & February!
📚 JANUARY IN BOOKS: Women Talking, Miriam Toews I liked this way more than I thought! The prose was lovely, and I think using dialogue as a vehicle for…
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📚 2024 TBR 📚
A preliminary list!
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Book Review: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, Hwang Bo Reum and Shanna Tan
Finally managed to sit down and finish a book! And what a book to jolt me back to life, even if I will return to my post-grad stupor… At least for the…
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Darwish and Translations of Belonging
An essay I wrote on two English translations of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's poem انا من هناك “I Am From There”
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on being a failed (?) poet
BEFORE it’s difficult, in a capitalist society, to know where your genuine desires begin and where internalised narratives about what you should want…
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update!!
with sincere apologies and many thanks
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in defense of mediocrity: the radical rejection of work under capitalism / the 'american dream' in everything everywhere all at once
thoughts on eeaao and yes it's about capitalism
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[In The Drafts] Reflections on Grief in A Pandemic: Resisting the Apocalypse-As-Metaphor
Something I wrote for a student magazine that never got published! Enjoy x
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Everyone's a Critic: On "Media Consumption," the BDS Movement and Learning to Divest
Consumers may not play the biggest role in the climate crisis, but we play a bigger role than we like to think in the cultural arena – and it's time we…
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Hard Times
JOURNAL ENTRY #1
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