solidarities
unbearably relational, but with gratitude about it .
as such, this page to be populated by the labors of others who make the world more capacious
through good work, of which any of mine is only an extension .
also: friends . collaborators . conspirators
happenings*
Check out "The Best Native American Literature, recommended by Megan Tusler" in this interview with Eve Gerber.
Come for book suggestions in Native American literature; leave with a lesson in how what we call '[A] Literature' is
a matter of critical intent, political strategy, and the farthest thing from neutral description.
Come for a generous invitation to read literature by diversely-identified Native authors alongside Megan Tusler,
University of Chicago lecturer and cohost of the Better Read Than Dead podcast (which you can find here )
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Do look forward to Jean-Thomas Tremblay's forthcoming contribution to our literacy in embodiment.
In his eloquence and not mine:
"My first monograph, Breathing Aesthetics, examines respiration’s prominence in responses
to contemporary crisis within literary, screen, performance, and visual cultures. Breathing has long
been an object of philosophical and artistic interest, from Ancient Greek musings on pneuma and
psyche to Ayurvedic disciplines. Yet the intensified contamination, weaponization, and monetization of
the air since the 1970s have turned difficult breathing into an index of the uneven distribution of
risk. In 2020, these historical processes led to the asphyxiating convergence of COVID-19,
a respiratory illness whose spread in Black communities is tied to environmental and structural
racism, and “I can’t breathe,” a cry for help turned rallying cry against anti-Black violence.
I argue that breathing has emerged as a medium that configures embodiment and experience as effects
of biopolitical and necropolitical forces—forces that optimize certain lives and trivialize or
attack others. As it rethinks embodiment and experience in the flows and frictions between
environmental, disability, and sexuality studies, Breathing Aesthetics shows how the aestheticization
of breathing generates medium-specific and historically, culturally, and environmentally situated tactics for living under precarity."
Currently in production with Duke University Press. Slated for November 2022.
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comrade in feminist political theory and friend, Ashleigh Campi's newest article out:
"Cultivating Authoritarian Submission: Race and Gender in Conservative Media"
in Theory & Event (April 2021).
Come for the knowledge about conservative media, stay for the reckoning on political desire: here
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American Area Seminar ft. Jean-Thomas Tremblay
titled, "Symptomaticity and Opacity in the Literature of Smog Sensing"
Friday, 23 April, 2021 5pm - 6:30pm
Location: Zoom
register
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do contact me or send materials to share here
because community and support and solidarity and comrades and collaboration and friendship or something ]
Run and Punch
though no longer, I once played trombone
for a Chicago-based ska/punk band .
my tenure was brief, but the music remains dope .
website
spotify
instagram
bandcamp
Tristan Hsu
... is my brother.
... is a mixed-media artist, photographer, and filmmaker.
... and also does sound engineering, design, and music.
instagram
Fei Lu
multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto
educator and art nerd
founder of Winged Canvas
The artist whose painting I used as poster art for my class, "Asian-American Studies (not quite introductory)," as referenced under "teaching"
website
virtual art school
Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico State University
all-around stand-up human, encounters with whom make
the world more vibrant and complicated because their work heightens our sensitivies to points of contact
forthcoming monograph: Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press)
website
Jenn M. Jackson
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University
Abolitionist. Organizer. Writer. Badass.
fellow traveler on panels that realize they only invited straight white cis men and needed to hedge their bets with two invites,
but we both say yes
website