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promotion of post "a feminist reading of global southeast asias" with photo of kayangan lake (palawan, philippines) in the background.

Just published my remarks on "Global Southeast Asias," presented last Friday at the UCI Global Asias Conference. Thinking through Kuan-Hsing Chen's Asia as Method and Mimi Thi Nguyen's The Promise of Beauty, both published by
@dukepress.bsky.social. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/beshiepi...

A foundational text that transformed the ways I imagined the futures of Filipinx/a/o American Studies. Well deserved, and congratulations to a dear mentor and friend for this award! @josendiaz.bsky.social

I've always told myself that hope and optimism are the two radical possessions that I can never let go of. Yet, I fear that my hands are beginning to tremble and shake. To be surrounded by community is the only reason I've survived—what else is left, if not them?

Super Bowl halftime show dancer displays Palestinian, Sudanese flags during Kendrick Lamar performance The NFL said "no one involved with the production was aware of the individual’s intent.”

A performer who was part of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was detained by security after waving the Sudanese flag and Palestinian flags together with the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” written on them toward the end of the performance, the NFL says.

The feeling you get when you read something, and you know it will be a text that you'll be returning to for the years to come...so excited to finish the rest of Adrian De Leon's (@aadeleon.bsky.social) Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America.

It seems like X isn't the only place where victim blaming and surface level political analysis resides. Happy to be on Bluesky 🥹