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not so much about homosexuality, it is what happens if you are so afraid that you finally cannot love anybody -- James Baldwin

It’s only from the destituent standpoint that one can grasp all that is incredibly constructive in the breakage. -- The Invisible Committee

Graduation Project Reading Research - Octopus in Drag

毒性、多孔性、传染、爱情、边界、苦中作乐、种族批判、性/酷儿生态学、动物性、有生性、怪物性、新怪异小说、异诗学、移民、理论的克里奥化、批判性虚构、变装表演、黄色恐怖、崩塌，他方，雄性气质，多孔性

Latest thinking

• From Animals, Sex, and Transsubstantiation:
• What do to think about the various issues of metamorphosis and Trans- in this work?
• What do you think about octopus genitalia? Or orifice?
• cannibalistic tendencies?
• How to threat whites?
• From Following Mercurial Affect:
• Differences in virus and toxicity

Core Readings

• Animacies - Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012), Mel Y. Chen
• Wild Things The Disorder of Desire (2020), Jack Halberstam
• ART SPECIALS BERLIN Jack Halberstam Refusal: An Aesthetics of Collapse
• Jack Halberstam, Unworlding and Q&A at Queer Earth and Liquid Matters | Serpentine
• Wild Things with Jack Halberstam
• Paul B. Preciado with Jack Halberstam
• A Hard White Body - Candice Lin
• The Virus: Figure and Infrastructure (2020), Elizabeth A. Povinelli
• More Lessons from a Starfish: Prefixial Flesh and Transspeciated Selves (2008), Eva Hayward
• Racism and Homophobia: The Chinese in Victorian Canada (2009), Hamish
• A View from the Bottom Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (2014), Tan Hoang Nguyen
• The Against Nature Journal
• Sex Ecologies (2021), Stefanie Hessler
• The Material Kinship Reader (2022), Kris Dittel and Clementine Edwards
• Death by Landscape (2022), Elvia Wilk
• Lovebug (2023), Daisy Lafarge
• Elsewhere, Within Here Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event (2010), Trinh T. Minh-ha
• Alien Rhymes (2019), Amy Ireland
• Vampires in Space (2023), Isadora Neves Marques
• YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds (2022), Isadora Neves Marques
• 他者的身份政治：马华文学，或理论的克里奥化
• 天使岛, 翁笑雨
• 猪仔叹和毒物赋，林从欣
• Responding to Anti-Asian Xenophobia during the Pandemic, 翁笑雨
• Queer Temporalities and the Chronopolitics of Transtemporal Drag (2011), Antke Engel
• Toxic Assemblages, Queer Socialities: A Dialogue of Mutual Poisoning (2013), Antke Engel and Renate Lorenz
• Aftershow Letters Virginie
• Rethinking Homonationalism (2013), Jasbir K. Puar
• Racism or Race Play: A Conceptual Investigation of the Race Play Debates (2017), Susanne Schotanus
• White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (2016), Gloria Wekker
• The RIght to Sex (2021), Amia Srinivasan
• Queeronomics: Neoliberal Co-Optation Of Queer Masculinities, Mudar Al-Khufash

Creolization

Edouard Glissant

Shu-mei Shih

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Toxicity, Infectiousness, Animality, Migration

Candice Lin

Mel Y. Chen

Isadora Neves Marques

Antke Engel

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz

Anicka Yi

Monstrousness, Collapse, Failure, Dance

Paul B. Preciado

Jack Halberstam

Hysteria by The Institute of Queer Ecology

Cyberfeminism, Critical Fabulation, Gathering

Saidiya Hartman

Mindy Seu

Xenopoetics, Compost, New Weird

Amy Ireland

Mark Fisher

Elvia Wilk

Sex, Sexuality, Race

Andil Gosine

Gloria Wekker

Amia Srinivasan

Susanne Schotanus

Awhãm Magazine

The Against Nature Journal

Jasbir K. Puar

...

Zach Blas

Carlos Motta

Adham Faramawy

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Fuyuhiko Takata

Sunpride Foundation

Jimmy DeSana

Readings

Readings from Institute for Postnatural Studies

• Death by Landscape, Elvia Wilk
• The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
• A [White] Cyborg’s Manifesto_ the overwhelmingly Western ideology driving technofeminist theory
• Race, Gender, and Virtual Inequality_ Exploring the Liberatory Potential of Black Cyberfeminist Theory
• Podcast: https://archive.ica.art/whats-on/what-can-post-cyber-feminism-do-reproductive-justice/
• Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (London: Verso, 2020)
• Tiziana Terranova, ‘Free Labour: Free Labour, Producing Culture for the Digital Economy,’ Social Text 63: https://web.mit.edu/schock/www/docs/18.2terranova.pdf
• Anastasia Siaoka and Elisabetta Biasin, ‘Bleeding Data: The Case of Fertility and Menstruation Tracking Apps,’ Internet Policy Review: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/bleeding-data-case-fertility-and-menstruation-tracking-apps
• Sadie Plant, 'On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations' in The Cybercultures Reader, eds. David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy (London: Routledge, 2000), 325–336.
• Annihilation (film), Alex Garland dir., 2018.
• Amy Ireland, ‘Alien Rhythms’, Litteraria Pragensia, vol. 29, no. 58, ‘Avant-Futures’, 2019: 58–71 (or online).
• Troubling Ecology: Wangechi Mutu, Octavia Butler, and Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism​ (​32 pages) Chelsea M. Frazier in Critical Ethnic Studies Vol. 2, No. 1 (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
• What the Sands Remember​ ​(21 pages) Vanessa Agard Jones (GLQ, 2012)
• Story/Podcast: ​The Ocean that Fades into Sky Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed Magazine, 2019)
• Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals Alexis Pauline Gumbs (A.K Press, 2020)
• Black Atlantic Queer Atlantic​ ​(26 pages) Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (GLQ, 2008)
• Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, race and gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction Sami Schalk, ​(Duke University Press, 2018)
• Podcast: Back to Earth - Queer Currents Serpentine Gallery (2020)
• Introduction: Black Ecology Nathan Hare (The Black Scholar, 1970)
• Let them Drown: the Violence of Othering in a Warming World Naomi Klein, (London Review of Books, 2016)
• Black Feminist Ecological Thought: A Manifesto Chelsea M. Frazier (Atmos Magazine, 2020)
• Aww Shucks: How do we Prepare for Climate Apocalypse [podcast episode, transcript available] adrienne maree brown & Autumn Brown, How to Survive the End of the World Podcast (2018)
• Introduction: Black Global Ecologies J.T. Roane & Justin Hosbey, Environment and Society: Advances in Research (2022)

FEMINIST KILLJOY, Reading from Sara Ahmed

• Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mes-tiza (San Francisco: Aunt Lune Books, 2nd edn, 1999)
• Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997) and Cruel Optimism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011)
• Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990) and Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004)
• Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016) and Abolition. Feminism. Now., with Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners and Beth E. Richie (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2021)
• Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race (London: Bloomsbury, 2017)
• Mona Eltahawy, Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (Dublin: Tramp Press, 2021)
• Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1993)
• Roxane Gay, The Bad Feminist (London: Corsair, 2014)
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Chico, CA: AKA Press, 2020)
• Ruby Hamad, White Tears, Browm Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (New York: Orion, 2020)
• Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (London: Serpent's Tail, 2009)
• bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (London: Pluto Press, 2000) and Talking Back: Thinking Feminism, Thinking Black (Boston: South End Press, 1989)
• Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Tru-mansburg: The Crossing Press, 1984) and A Burst of Light: Essays (Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1988)
• Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2020) and The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
• Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminism Forgot (London: Bloomsbury, 2020)
• Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power (London: Pluto Press, 2020)
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Min-neapolis: Greywood Press, 2014) and Just Us: An American Conversation (London: Allen Lane, 2020)
• Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color (New York: Seal Press, 2021)
• Chelsea Watego, Another Day in the Colony (Brisbane, University of Queensland, 2021)
• Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2021)

Queering the Narrative

Write in anachronistically with multitude (rethink time)

• Mark Fisher - The Slow Cancellation Of The Future
• PBS Idea Channel - What is history
• Aihe Wang - Cosmology and politics in Ancient China
• Future Host - Xiangliu

Write anachronistically with multitude  (rethink space)

• Gayatri C. Spivak  - Planetarity
• Mike Parker Pearson -The Archaeology of Death and Burial
• Yuri Pines -The One that pervades All in Ancient Chinese Political Thought: Origins of “The Great Unity” Paradigm
• Future Host - Ze + Youli

Playing with pronounce/ Write erotica

• Future Host - Shuangshuang
• Zairong Xiang - Yingyang transdualism  
• Zairong Xiang - Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration
• Adrienne Maree Brown - Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Bending the reality (rethink genres)

• McKenzie Wark - A_Hacker_Manifesto
• Rebecca Jennings - Is a new kind of religion forming on the internet?
• Helen Hester - XENOFEMINISM
• Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto

Embodying the narrative

• Alice Sparkly Kat - Introduction To Postcolonial Astrology
• Lindsay Choi - Transverse  
• Robin R. Wang - Kundao
• Yuhang Li - Becoming Guanyin
• Michael Taussig - The Magic of the State

Return (alternative autobiography)

• Bassem Saad - Syringe Spindle Scepter
• Elvia Wilk - Oval
• Nieh Hua-ling - Mulberry and Peach

Research Methodologies

• Text on Practice
• Project Proposal
• Thesis Outline
• Graduation Thesis

Practice

HOW DO YOU throw a brick through the window of a bank?

An Artist Who Only Participates in Group Exhibitions

The Ruined Map

Echos of an Unverifiable World

Purple Kiss

Dear Abliz (ئابلىز)

Feminism, Queerness

Pedro Neves Marques

• YWY, Searching for a Character between Future Worlds
• Vampires in Space

Paul B. Preciado

• Manifiesto contrasexual
• Testo yonqui
• Un apartamento en Urano.
• Dysphoria Mundi
• Preciado write articles for: https://www.liberation.fr/?redirected=1;
• Anal Politics

Donna Haraway

• notes

Elvia Wilk

• https://elviapw.com/
• https://lithub.com/toward-a-theory-of-the-new-weird/
• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/92/205298/the-word-made-fresh-mystical-encounter-and-the-new-weird-divine/
• https://granta.com/erotics-of-rot/

Antke Engel + Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz

• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/52/59935/the-elegantly-strong-triad-defamiliarizing-the-family-in-works-by-latoya-ruby-frazier-and-henrik-olesen/
• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/17/67418/desire-for-within-economic-transformation/
• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/28/68031/queer-temporalities-and-the-chronopolitics-of-transtemporal-drag/

• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/44/60173/toxic-assemblages-queer-socialities-a-dialogue-of-mutual-poisoning/
• http://www.queer-institut.de/en/

Mel Y. Chen + Candice Lin

• Animacies
• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/130/492951/death-to-death-life-by-cuts/
• https://gws.berkeley.edu/about/department-faculty/mel-y-chen/

• https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/17/2-3/265/34745/Toxic-Animacies-Inanimate-Affections?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Carlos Motta

• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/44/
• https://carlosmotta.com/
• https://vimeo.com/user3319523

Zairong Xiang

• https://www.xiangzairong.com/
• Yinyang, Transdualism
• https://timesmuseum.org/cn/journal/south-of-the-south/shanzhai-a-theory-of-the-south

Cyberfeminism

• Glitch Feminism
• Mindy Seu

Glossary

https://keywords.nyupress.org/

Posthuman glossary

https://www.queernature.org/

https://queerecology.org/