thomas

phd student @NUSgeog | art, labor, infrastructure, cultural economy, queer marxist critique, asian urbanisms | 🟦☁️@thmsdl.bsky.social

[巴勒斯坦团结行动网络 @palestine_zh]

This year, 9 scholars in the fields of history and archaeology were awarded Dan David Prize. One of them is Howard Chiang (姜学豪), scholar of Sinophone queer history, author of After Eunuchs and Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific, and co-editor of Queer Sinophone Cultures.

[thomas @THMSSDL]

My book review of Co-authoring Feminist and Queer Geographies: Collaborations, Mentorships, Solidarities, Friendships has been published in Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography @NUSgeog

https://t.co/Icn62j7TDl

[The Syllabus @syllabus_tweets]

The claim that capitalism has been replaced by a new digital “feudal order” misreads the dynamics of today’s economy. Our article of the week insists that capitalism endures, reorganized around rent, not production.

By @koheisaito0131 & @ryuujisasaki

https://t.co/gtklSXrCOa

[Krisna Saravanamuttu @KrisnaS85]

Canada’s decision to list Samidoun as a terrorist entity sets a dangerous precedent, deepening the criminalization of Palestinian organizations/solidarity groups. What evidence exists of Samidoun financing, travelling and recruiting on behalf of any group including the PLFP?

[thomas @THMSSDL]

My article suggests, then, that the museum's Taiwan consciousness attempts to add a voice to other public Taiwanese nationalist debates, but one which is abstract, amendable, for- profit and against the spirit of the documentary in the first place.

[thomas @THMSSDL]

My latest in @iacs_society examines how the curatorial abstraction done to pieces in exhibitions produces complex and contradictory meanings, and the implications of these meanings to public knowledge about what counts as Taiwanese. https://t.co/bvB3Voecpo

[thomas @THMSSDL]

I show how silencing the piece produces a supercut of advertisements and news clippings in the documentary that have no context in the world. This abstraction allows the curators to produce their own Taiwan consciousness built within the walls of the exhibition.

[thomas @THMSSDL]

This work was built out of a chapter of my MA thesis. Throughout it's writing, I am grateful to @OswinNatalie Alana Boland snd @IanTian11 who have all played a role in shaping this piece.

[Chuang @chuangcn]

Here's another by a rider in Shijiazhuang, calling for nationwide solidarity with the striking riders, delivered in teeth-gnashing jest: "We can't triumph over capital, you know? The point of capital is exploitation, you see? Wealth is always controlled by the few..."

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

City 26.5-6

Radical unknowability: an essay on solidarities and multiform urban life

AbdouMaliq Simone @XazaarAdjame & Vanesa Castán Broto @VaneBailo

https://t.co/FdX9TEa4WT

[TTCriders @ttcriders]

🧵 @lorrainelamchop explains we are already seeing police removing unhoused and poor people from #TTC. But they have nowhere to go and are being unfairly scapegoated for violence. Homeless people are actually vulnerable to violence.

Supports will create a safer #TTC and city ⤵️

[James McLeod @jamespmcleod]

THE POLICE BROUGHT AN ASSAULT RIFLE TO YONGE & BLOOR

DO YOU FEEL SAFER ALREADY?

[Ēriks Bredovskis @bredovsk]

“According to its financial report, U of T earned a net income of $726 million during the 2020–2021 fiscal year” And yet @uoft has proposed a reduction of $400k in the benefits of @cupe3902 unit 1 members. https://t.co/9SsCEdprp0

[Ēriks Bredovskis @bredovsk]

@uoft is proposing to reduce healthcare coverage for its Teaching Assistants and Course Instructors (Unit 1
@cupe3902). As Acting VP1 I’m able to get the full breakdown of unit 1 benefits usage and I found some interesting trends. 🧵 (1/15)

[Sarah Jama @SarahJama_]

If you live in #HamOnt in a low income neighborhood and have received flyers about applying for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) on cardstock please DM me. I'm trying to understand which exact neighborhoods received this.

[David Jones @Davejonesy]

This is a truly devastating piece of reporting.

[thomas @THMSSDL]

my book review of christopher chitty's sexual hegemony in cultural geographies https://t.co/nC2JVwAyPl