Erasure

This is a post in a series of articles I’m writing called “5 points & 1 resource” (think tl;dr but 5p;1r), where I summarize a list of bullet points that would have helped me start learning or re-learning a certain topic. …

The 13 new images I found in 100 year old issues of the Providence Journal have finally meant that I have photos of each of the buildings along both sides of Empire St from before Providence Chinatown was destroyed. (Read background on this project here.) While I am excited to…

Why the ‘cancel culture’ debate fails to recognise how European thought has erased (and continues to erase) whole cultures, histories and civilisations simply because they don’t fit middle-class European norms — The ‘cancel culture’ debate winds me up. Particularly when academics claim that they are afraid of expressing their ‘true’ findings for fear of losing their careers. …

So, my video on Netflix’s Archive 81, its straightwashing and adaptation in general came out a while ago. Which means it’s time to talk about the ideas that didn’t get into the video for one reason or another. This time we’re talking about the importance of unimportance, the absence of…

I’d like to share an early iteration of an ongoing project, “Seeing Providence Chinatown: A virtual reconstruction of an erased neighborhood” (in an effort to better compile my updates on this project, I’m reposting this from the Twitter thread here, originally share on Nov 14, 2021) These are the only…

On Institutional Memory & Fighting Back — I read Maxine Leeds Craig’s Ain’t I A Beauty Queen for the work I’m doing on curly hair. It’s been on my shelf for close to a year now, and I should have read it long ago. The first chapter of the book is rich in history and theory. Craig…