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your ma paper theme sounds really cool!! could you elaborate more on it please?

thanks! here's a summary of my thesis proposal i turned in last month i guess? my projects r always ambitious so idk how much of this i can accomplish this year but this is what i have so far.

i'm basically trying to derive a korean queer theory from the way that kim hyesoon talks about princess bari and the figure of the shaman as representative of the way that she pioneered her own feminist literary heritage instead of aligning herself with the history of korean men's poetry (which has a history of misogyny) or women's poetry (which was limited in content and style by what women are allowed to write about/be).

in her princess bari essays (as translated by don mee choi) she redefines and femininity/womanhood in her poetry as a shamanic quality that dissolves boundaries, incorporates the reader into itself (changing both the reader and the text), and is inherently tied to death and traverses death to find life within it. so i'm arguing that this quality she describes is also a new way of considering the queer artistic mode and can be the basis of a korean queer theory in a way that engages with ideas from scholars including adrienne rich, judith butler, lee edelman, jose esteban munoz. as part of my theoretical methodology i'm using ethnological texts to establish the korean shaman as a queer figure that influences broader korean culture in attitude toward gender performance as well as narrative form, and using don mee choi's pamphlet on translation as an antineocolonial mode to translate kim's ideas into a queer and diasporic/globalized context.

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i hope life is going well! i noticed that you’re not that active here anymore but it’s still nice to see you on the dashboard

aw thank u! the monthly themed posts r all queued from a while ago but i pop in from time to time! its usually only when i have like an empty afternoon where i get to watch youtube videos and stuff.

in general i'm doing pretty good! i'm on a summer trip rn with my gf to thailand and laos (where they're from) and korea (where i'm from) and it's been amazing!

and rn i'm in the middle of a 3-year dual degree program for an mfa in creative writing and an ma in english, i just defended my thesis for the mfa! it's a hybrid collection with 3 short stories, original poems, and poems translated from korean :)) i have 1 year left for my ma in english, i'm doing a theoretical paper drawing connections between queer theory and literary depictions of shamanism in korean feminist poetry!

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do you still keep up with shinee? or other 2nd gen group like snsd etc

shinee and red velvet are the main ones i try to stay updated on! it's nice when i see snsd members around and i rly wish sunmi would do something. i'm in korea rn just for like a week and luna is starring in the mamma mia musical in seoul so that was nice to see on a bus ad

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do you still keep up with kpop?

not rly anymore since i started school last year, i've been very busy. i try to keep up with the active groups that i like but sometimes i'm several months late. and if there's like some discourse or event going on i only catch it if i happen to be looking at social media at the time but i haven't rly even been on tumblr that consistently and i only go on twitter like once every few weeks

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The Bather, František Kupka

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I’m not asking for much… just to sleep without fear, to wake up to birds, not bombs. Hunger has become a part of me — not just for food, but for safety, for peace, for a normal day. Everything is running out: food, water, power… even hope.

I’m not a number. I’m a human being. I need your help — your voice, your support, whatever you can give. Donate, share, speak up. Even a small act could reach us. Just please… don’t stay silent.

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“Dyke rage is blessed”

Dyke March, San Francisco, June 27th, 2015, by skamalas on flickr. (source)

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2009-07-20

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amy fox, trans butch, from persistence: all ways butch and femme.

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Cats on Park Avenue (1989)

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House Plants (1964)

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changmin's grand return to variety

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and his entire insta page is body profiles 😭😭

"you were flriting! "you flirted with me first!" oh i seeeeeee lmaoooo

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Memoria (2021)

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Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Fields after the Rain, 1890, oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

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Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)

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Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)