poetry & translation

• muscularity & eros: on syntax by carl phillips


• writing from the ashes: on the burning haibun [on the generative failures within a text] by torrin a. greathouse


• anne carson & the erotics of translation by kelcie haas


• translation is a mode=translation is an anti-neocolonial mode by don mee choi


• kafka: toward a minor literature by gilles deleuze & félix guattari

films

• gender troublemakers (1993), dir. mirha-soleil ross
• two trans lesbians discuss sex & negative experiences with gay men; tender; touching; really brings to light how non-hegemonic masculinities still reach for the conditional acceptance among certain circles (most esp. in relations between men) guaranteed by Performance of hegemonic manhood oriented around misogyny

• grief reaches deep where the river ends (2023), dir. eddie htet aung lwyn
• a poetic rendering of queer loss & grief from one of my favorite currently working burmese filmmakers

essays (media)

• the palace perspective: nanami kiryuu at the heart of the world
• "if i were to come up with a single phrase for what I think the full story is; the thesis of utena if you will, it would be this: “gender as a structure reproduces itself violently: especially through romance and sex, especially against children, especially within families – and, at its core, all three of these at once.”
• a series of essays on sibling incest in revolutionary girl utena by @palaceperspective; compiled into a PDF by me

introduction to transfeminism

• juju vs the possibility of love, life & death, dir. htet aung lwyn