WISHCRYS

Post-PhD, Limbo, and Closure.

After a 23-week wait, I finally passed my PhD two weeks ago. I told one of my besties I expected the afterglow to last a grand total of three days. In […]

Heritage

Growing Up With Jerry Murad of ‘The Dukes’.

Crystal Abidin is an anthropologist, ethnographer, and percussionist who grew […]

Academica Dramatica

How to Hell Week Monday.

It is Monday. Hell Week Monday, to be precise. I just spent two hours counter-productively freaking out. But, I also spent two hours returning to my trusted self-care mechanisms […]

Academica Dramatica

Belonging everywhere and nowhere.

We always expound on the virtues of being a multicultural global citizen of the world. BUT. 1) This Chinese ethnic org will not recognize my 50% Chinese makeup because my […]

Brainfarts

On the value of public grieving, in 22 Tweets.

It is 0203hrs. I got up to take an hourlong […]

Influencers

East Asian Influencer culture featured in Journalisten.no.

I was recently interviewed by the Norwegian Union of Journalists […]

Academica Dramatica

Academia, mean girls, and politicking.

I’ve been trying to work out my politic as an academic and ethnographer. Some of these thoughts were formed during my serial-conferencing this year, because conferences are where young/junior/emergent academics 1) learn to […]

Coupling

To be inside of you / work & tumble

Super psyched to be featured in Australian poetry publisher work & tumble‘s debut anthology. Support local? Buy this collection, submit your poetry, or follow w&t on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Internet culture

Textual intimacies, Faux Pas, and Truncative Devices.

My colleague Jenny Kennedy and I are starting a project […]

Academica Dramatica

Premature nostalgia at my last conference as a postgrad.

It is 2341hrs. In theory, I am meant to be […]

Academica Dramatica

Academica Dramatica x Packaging Intellect at Conference Presentations.

A series of brainfarts on why 20-min conference presentations to […]

Influencers

Genealogies: Writing, Research, and Influencers

I recently published a journal article on micro-microcelebrity (pdf | […]

Academica Dramatica

I want to be an academic.

Today, I’ve just wrapped up the first of a string of conferences to end off 2015. It’s 0218hrs. I’m on a squishy air mattress, half trying to edit a paper, half […]

Influencers

November & December in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne.

Moshimoshi folks! I make my annual pilgrimage to the Eastern […]

Influencers

Digital detox, Media panics, and What’s next.

This continues from my earlier post on Essena O’Neill, Authenticity, and […]

Influencers

Essena O’Neill, Authenticity, and Vlog Wars.

Edit: Part two here – Digital detox, Media panics, and What’s […]

Brainfarts

Notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction.

Some notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction as I […]

Internet culture

Ode to email.

We use verbal phrases like “drop you an email” and “flick you an email” but really, emails are hard work, no? Length and content reciprocity are important, because who’d appreciate […]

Everyday ethnographies

Six first impressions of the US.

Phoenix is basically Western Australia with cacti. – As punishment for being Internet researchers we now have to dine in the desert. It’s like academic Survivor. – These are so […]

Academica Dramatica

academics after-dark.

Lecture: It is important to understand nuanced uses of Tinder. Life: “Omg Tinder is so shallow.” Lecture: Cultural relativism is important. Life: Mocks people’s accents. Lecture: Diversity and representation is […]

Internet culture

Selfie fashion

As a young responsible adult, I spent all of this morning procrastinating productively. As a selfie researcher, I spent all of this morning procrastinating productively on selfie paraphernalia. So here’s […]

Internet culture

IR16 Fame and Microcelebrity on the Web

Moshimoshi Internet researchers of the world, We’re less than ten days to IR16. Are you ready? *throws confetti* I hope you’re as psyched as I am to be reuniting with […]

Brainfarts

Translations, care, and paralanguages.

It is 0212hrs on a Tuesday morning in Singapore. I am typing away in a dark room in Chinatown while my two best friends are asleep beside me.

Brainfarts

Of wordless wordsmiths.

“Inexpressible Love to write – Enticements, arguments, and impasses generated by the desire to “express” amorous feeling in a “creation” (particularly of writing). Two powerful myths have persuaded us that […]

Brainfarts

I am collecting beautiful objects.

I am collecting beautiful objects. A pair of shoes. Some glasses. Telephone. Typewriter. They are made from wool and felt. With apparent stitches. Their delicate, unfinished appearance is friendly. And […]

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