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September 1, 2012September 1, 2012 - Uncategorized

A call to the arms of love: on the love of film as a politics of film, on critique-as-love and love-as-revolutionary-force, in memory of Alexis Tioseco, Nika Bohinc and my father; or, another letter I would love to read to you in person.

(Note: I don’t typically double-post, or indeed triple-post, but some forms of mourning, or memorial, ought to be as wide-reaching…

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July 24, 2012 - Uncategorized

Oddball Films and guest curator Christine Kwon present: I Was Born But… The Ocean Track, Thursday July 26, 8PM.

If I were in San Francisco on Thursday night, I would definitely head over to Oddball Films at 275 Capp…

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June 27, 2012 - Uncategorized

From “The Search for Decolonial Love: An Interview With Junot Diaz” at Boston Review

  Part I and Part II of the interview, found via subashini. Photo taken by me at the Berlin Wall.…

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June 22, 2012June 25, 2012 - Uncategorized

On Prometheus, Berlin’s O2 arena, Wings of Desire, androids, assemblages, agencements, corporate-imperial subjects and rebels, translator-traitors, and pain.

    Recently, walking along the Berlin Wall near the Oberbaumbrücke: there, at the opening of the bridge, you saw…

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April 16, 2012April 17, 2012 - Uncategorized

Survival, feminist killjoys and the making of transnational counterpublics: on watching Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years.

On Saturday, I went to see Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years in London, part of Fringe! East London Gay Film…

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March 13, 2012March 18, 2012 - Uncategorized

“Folks want to know how to begin the practice of loving”: on Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s The Kid with a Bike

On Sunday night I went to see Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s new film Le gamin au vélo (The Kid…

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November 17, 2011November 22, 2011 - Uncategorized

Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology

From the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library: For the past 6 weeks poets from around the world have been sending…

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November 14, 2011November 14, 2011 - Uncategorized

Videos from Occupy London’s International Day of Solidarity, November 12, 2011: David Harvey, Linda Bellos, Varinder Singh, Bell Ribeiro-Addy.

    “One of the things that I think we’re learning over the last few years actually and particularly over…

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June 25, 2011 - Uncategorized

Human Rights Activism and Filmmaking: Glasgow Film Theatre, June 26, 3pm.

  If you happen to be in Glasgow this weekend, please check out the Human Rights Activism and Filmmaking event…

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June 16, 2011June 19, 2011 - Uncategorized

Books lost between California and England. (Also on Head-On, Birol Ünel, blood, Pierre Loti, Lea Salonga, appendicitis in Paris, flirtations, transoceanic accents, impossible eulogies, Patroclus and Achilles, lost things, holes, giving yourself up.)

Nearly two years ago, when I moved to England from California, I had a box of books shipped over from…

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