Sarah Tan

🇲🇾 | human geographer & phd student @OxfordGeography researching belonging + transnational homes | alum @LSEGeography

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

PAPER IS NOW OUT IN EARLY VIEW
https://t.co/pT39wh37cN ♥️😭 @RGS_IBGhe (Area)

how it started: how it’s going:

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

🦋🦋

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics: “I was really struggling with this sentence, but a few hours later I got it right, then deleted it, then rewrote it, then deleted it again. Then lay down and thought about the sentence”.

Parents: “your sister bought a house”.

[Oxford UCU @OxfordUCU]

🚨We are already at 300+ signatures now!

If you work at Oxford, add your name to the open letter below demanding concrete actions to start addressing the sheer scale of the University’s dependence on casualised & low-paid teaching.

Our full report is at https://t.co/FtGPqLh615

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

been a month since I moved back to ox after my year away from the city & academia! been a big but smooth transition back to my life here & feeling v blessed to have these gorgeous spaces to linger in & even more blessed to have had the warmest welcome back from gorgeous people 🫶🏻

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

@PhilEmmerson @RGS_IBGhe Thank you Phil for being such a support and encouragement as I stumbled through publishing as an undergrad. I feel so blessed to have crossed paths with you even briefly, and been on the receiving end of such genuine warmth, compassion and care in an otherwise intimidating space.

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

((I could go on about how unnecessarily difficult & tedious it is for international students to take breaks from their programmes, whether to prioritise their mental health or otherwise, and the paperwork & logistical nightmare that ensues, but that’s a chat for another day 🫣))

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

the ‘little bit’ turned into a year & it was by far the best decision I could’ve made 🫶🏻

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

have made the hard decision to take a break from my phd for a little bit to take care of myself, rest, recover & heal ♥️ I decided on this a while ago but the proper paperwork is now almost done & whilst I feel disappointed, I’m also feeling so relieved !!!

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

with that said, I am very excited to be returning to ox and the phd later this year, albeit on a completely different project but one that is very much close to my heart ♥️♥️

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

@RyanCentner Congratulations Ryan!!✨ being taught by you was such a privilege — your support, advice and encouragement always meant so much to me then & continues to inspire me now!

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

POLITICS OF CITATION: As Rita Segata suggests, to acknowledge the authorship of someone isn't to assert ownership over a discourse, as has sometimes been thought, but to give due importance to the complexity of the historical context from which an author's ideas emerge.

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Epistemic racism/extractivism happens all the time...when someone "picks your brain" yet never cites you. When professors steal ideas from students. When communities become "data mines." When decolonial theories are co-opted. Coloniality of knowledge is an everyday practice.

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

👀🫣🤪✌🏻🥵✨💥

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

absolutely thrilled to have my words included in this book !!!!🫶🏻🫶🏻

I am so thankful to @cheng_yien for providing international students with a dedicated space to articulate, document and productively process the intense emotions of that specific moment in such a cathartic way.

[Sarah Tan @SarahHuiAnnTan]

thinking through the theme of ‘freedom’, I wrestle with my decision to leave for my MSc in the middle of the pandemic.

by exploring what ‘freedom’ meant in different contexts, I unpack the relativeness of freedom, and how freedom is affectively charged and felt.