A queer feminist anthropologist exploring the realities of culture, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Asia
Personification is one of those literary devices we learn about early on, like similes and alliteration. It’s just a word we use to describe other words, and most people won’t use it after they escape the hellhole that was GCSE English Literature. But as I looked out from the train this evening, over the last [...]
I’ve reached the end of the year feeling a little lost. I’ve let myself get comfortable in what I am doing right now, which is unfamiliar territory for me and therefore a little unnerving. It’s times like these we need a reminder of what we’ve achieved, what we’ve weathered and what we’ve enjoyed. Looking over [...]
World première of Shobana Jeyasingh’s unique new Strange Blooms Shobana Jeyasingh presents an evening of detailed precision in two highly unique works spanning a career of over 25 years. This double bill in Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall pairs a revival of Jeyasingh’s most prominent early work, Configurations, with the world première of her latest [...]
I am lucky enough to be working in a job I truly enjoy doing, and one of the coolest things I have got to do so far is phone other dance lovers around the world. I have now spoken to people in Hungary, Italy, New York, Ottawa, Seoul, Sao Paulo... the list goes on. A [...]
Dating Etiquette, period. How many times have you heard a friend mention how grossed out they are by the idea of sex on menses? Actually, how often does anyone even speak openly about ‘riding the crimson wave’? ‘Hardly ever’, do I hear you say? What on earth is the etiquette with periods when dating? Are [...]
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