한국에 있으면서 좋은 점 한 가지는, 중국 소설들의 한국어 번역서를 많이 읽을 수 있다는 것이다. 하지만 원문에는 있지도 않는 여성화자 경어체, 남성화자 평어체는 몰입을 방해한다.

📢📢📢 Penn EnviroLab is organizing an exciting inter-disciplinary grad conference "Placing: New engagements with the environment" from 18 to 20 March! Feat. keynote by Michelle Murphy and many other faculty discussants. Register today! pennenvirolab.org/conference-on-… #anthrotwitter

My writing piece on biopolitics in a Chinese residential compound came out. It's short and sweet--300 words. #Logistics In The Time of Covid disq.us/t/3wcpd0v

I just signed the MOVE Organization petition: MOVE Children Deserve to Rest in Peace! Return our family's remains NOW!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/move… #onamove

How Dr Max Liboiron uses the footnotes in Pollution is Colonialism is inspiring, e.g. on the unmarkedness of white scholars (p.3)

My course policy medicalized the class. It was my first time teaching this fall. 38 students. I required medical documentation to excuse absences/late work (e.g. evidence of a visit to the COVID test). But students’ difficulties are not always medically documentable.

I feel so bad for those 1,000 tress in Shanghai. They need wider space than these aggressively futuristic, pseudo-ecological pots. t.ly/TI9P

RTing with my love of garbages bins

This open letter can be a great teaching material for an undergrad class on Korean pop culture imo

Dissertation during the pandemic feels so isolating. Nobody wears a mask in the main library so I don’t feel safe to work there. My TA office is in a windowless basement dungeon. Yet tired of working at my apartment all the time. I miss being around people.

I'm attending a @theactionnet event: UCW Rally and Petition Delivery for UK Grad Worker Respect. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/ucw-ral…

Feeling heavy and sad after watching the Voice of April youtu.be/5pzwkFCAv44 Shanghai is the Chinese state’s showcase of virtually everything. But there are people living in that showcase.

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My bedtime read tonight is Emma Goldman because SCOTUS

Want to see some gorgeous garbage pictures? Check my #2022AAASeattle panel! I'm presenting a paper about street-level technocracy of waste management in urban China. Unsettling Logistical Minds November 11, Friday, 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM PST (SCC 617).

Go #UCW #UnitedCampusWorkers

Youbin Kang focuses on the “infrastructure aunties” of Seoul and shows how the aunty labour that keeps the city moving is exploited but that it also simultaneously challenges gendered boundaries of public and private. roadsides.net/kang-009/

Attending the inaugural bell hooks Symposium—full of energy of care, creativity, and love for justice and healing #bellhooks #bereacollege

Whenever people misspell my non-English name, I try to remember Siri (the English speaking one) pronounces my name correctly. That feels comforting.

Based on my interaction with the founder Bertin M. Louis, Jr. I highly recommend Navigating Higher Education for PhD students who are navigating the academic job market.