By P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
Newsletter: Triptych
Why write a long narrative history of my hip pain, going back to the beginning? Because I think it is an interesting case study in how difficult it
For about a week now I’ve been able to do two things that I haven’t been able to do in a very long time: sleep through the night without
Some thoughts on the 2021 Tamil film 《Jai Bhim》- available on Amazon Prime. Link to Twitter Thread The film is based on an actual court case from
I’ve been thinking a lot about “trust.” Without trust we approach everything with cynicism. But it is not possible to have society if we approach
If you are over thirty five and spend a lot of your day sitting at a computer, it is a pretty safe bet that you are in pain. Maybe it is only when
Yesterday I wrote about my conversations with students about academic careers. Today I wanted to share some of the advice I give them in an effort
I’m regularly contacted by random young scholars who want to chat with me about pursuing graduate study related to Taiwan: either studying in
A common attack against Indigenous sovereignty claims is that Indigenous peoples themselves must have come from somewhere else in the past. (After
For today’s #TaiwanStudies thread I will be doing something a bit different. Rather than doing a book report on Paul Barclay’s 《Outcasts of Empire》,
Today’s #TaiwanStudies thread is about the book 《Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan》 by Amy Brainer. (Link to Twitter thread.) This is not
Today’s #TaiwanStudies Twitter thread is a discussion of @sydney_yueh’s 《Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan: A Sajiao Generation》.
Me: [Trying to do online banking] Citibank: We need to verify that you are you. Me: OK, here is my phone number Citibank: … Me: OK, that isn’t