Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her)

cultural anthro PhD candidate @ Stanford // race, urban space, public sphere // Singapore

[Sharika Thiranagama @thirana1]

Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza  – TWAILR. 800 scholars signed including me. Please read. https://t.co/CV5XoRWgjG

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

Excited to be a part of this conversation tomorrow!

[Beyond The Hijab SG @beyondhijabsg]

When someone dies in our name, we should know about it. This morning Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, an intellectually disabled man, was executed for the crime of trafficking less than 3 tablespoons of diamorphine, coerced by a trafficker who threatened to murder his girlfriend.

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

if i could tell my younger self one thing, it would be to save all undergrad syllabi because now, 10 years later, i'm google scholaring "rio brazil gay" in the hopes of finding an article from who knows when by who knows who on something i barely remember but know is relevant

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

@KosherSoul Singapore
1. Roti Prata
2. Murtabak
3. Nasi Biryani
4. Thosai
5. Satay

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

@laavy_k Congratulations 🎉🎉

[Nick Estes @nickwestes]

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[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

oooof

but also, one day if i ever get to teach a history of anthropology class, my final assignment is going to be to write a critical response to this letter

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

was interviewed for a qualitative methods class assignment where MA students had to interview PhDs currently doing data collection. this was to practice their interviewing but also to gain a deeper understanding of student research experiences. def using this assignment one day

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

and we got a chance to talk to the museum director, and i asked him about this, and his response was that these were beliefs of ancient civilizations, and that they weren't concerned about people from those regions walking in and being offended today

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

another thing they talked about was that some things don't have to be/shouldn't be known and that both historic and contemporary communities have a right to privacy

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

or a frieze depicting deities with a label that said something like it was only to be seen by those who crafted it and that it would have originally been positioned so that nobody else would be able to view it

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

catching up on the sessions and panels i've missed (love that #AAS2021 is recorded!) and had to share my favourite line from my notes:

"the colonial project of gender is gaslighting" - @sandyosullivan

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

@_mattbarlow i wanted to ask a similar question about that, but it's also forcing me sit with why my first instinct is to feel so much more comfortable watching what people around me are doing (especially in public) rather than overhearing what they're saying

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

woke up this morning still thinking about Orhan Karagoz's "Doing anthropology blind" and his method of participant eavesdropping #AAS2021

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

@pallavil23 @aus_anth such a brilliant paper! I esp loved how you traced the politics of taste not only to colonial writers (still can't get over how much hate mangoes got) but also to 1856 and the grease on the rifle cartridges

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

@DebraMcDougall Thank you for pointing that out, I hadn't thought of that before, but I definitely need to because until pretty recently, Malay was actually more of a shared language to communicate across race, especially for elderly folks

[Alisha Elizabeth Cherian (she/her) @alishaecherian]

If you're attending #AAS2021, I'll be presenting my paper "The Sound of Mandarin and the Smell of Smoke: Indian Singaporean Embodied Experiences of Racial Difference" on this panel in a little bit!