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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

King Lear Goes to China | Los Angeles Review of Books Jeffrey Wasserstrom speaks with Xue Yiwei and Nan Z. Da about Shakespeare’s legacy in China.

"King Lear Goes to China," @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I did w/Nan Z. Da, author of a wok of criticism and memoir related to the topic, and Xue Yiwei, author of fiction related to the topic lareviewofbooks.org/article/king... , cc @folger.edu @chinabooksreview.com @chowleen.bsky.social

Heater, a perfect and tiny orange cat with a white chest, sulks behind my pink and purple tackle box that contains my sewing supplies.

tfw mother won’t give you a second dinner

Malaysia-Thailand: Australian writer Murray Hunter targeted in act of transnational repression — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide ‘ As the current ASEAN Chair, the Malaysian government has a responsibility to demonstrate its commitment to human rights, including the right to freedom of expression, across the region. Instead, it ...

#Thailand: We join PEN #Malaysia in expressing our alarm over the Malaysian government's targeting of Murray Hunter in an act of transnational repression. We call for the complaints against him to be withdrawn immediately.

Read our joint statement 🔽 www.pen-international.org/news/malaysi...

Introducing Letters from Afghan Women, a project giving women inside #Afghanistan a platform to speak freely. In the 1st letter, Roma Ayuobi talks about her day-to-day reality & her hope that women will one day have the chance to fight for a better future: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/we-l...

พรุงนี้วันพุธที่ 12 จะเป็นครั้งแรกที่จะพูดถึงเล่มที่กำลังเขียนอยู่ (หลังจากที่ส่งโครงการหนังสือให้บก.สำนักพิมพ์พิจารณา เคยเสนอส่วนต่างๆก่อนหนังสือเริ่มก่อตัว) (ยังไม่ได้ก่อตัวเสร็จ แต่เริ่มๆ) เป็นเล่มที่เป็นทั้งประวัติศาสตร์ของการจองจำนักโทษการเมืองและประวัติศาสตร์เชิงความคิดของนักโทษการเมืองตั้งแต่กบฏสันติภาพถึงปัจจุบัน ยังมีอีกหลายต่อหลายคำถามที่วนๆอยู่เพาระตอบไม่ได้

Cover of "dictatorship on trial, coups and the future of justice in thailand" Tyrell Haberkorn

Only skimmed "dictatorship on trial" by @turtelista.bsky.social so far but the acknowledgements crediting Thai Lawyers for Human rights & others in its writing gives me confidence its going to be solid.

A sentence that jumped out:

"Joy exists alongside, and is necessary for the stuggle..."

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC This City Belongs to You.

This city belongs to you.

youtu.be/Nf4aPjPu6pk

These days, in many places, many things can’t be said directly. Can we say them in poetry? @asiancha.bsky.social is seeking poems and translations for our ongoing series “Fight with Words, Write to Power” (in short, “Write to Power”). We welcome Asia-focused works. chajournal.blog/2025/11/03/w...

Fantastic opportunity for PhDs working in Southeast Asian Asian Studies to teach a 1 credit mini-course for @getsea.bsky.social! The opportunities are endless!

I translated three letters written by "Get" Sophon Surattithamrong, currently imprisoned for lese majeste in Thailand for @indexoncensorship.org. Get writes with an expansive solidarity and links past and present struggles in Thailand to the history of #Gwangju and the #MilkTeaAlliance.

Jailed for criticising the royal family - Tyrell Haberkorn, Sophon “Get” Suratitthamrong, 2025

Great to see @indexoncensorship.org publish these prison letters by a Thai activist (w/valuable contextualizing comments by @turtelista.bsky.social ); the letters contain elements of interest to those particularly interested in other places, like Korea, as well journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Call for graduate student mentors from our friends @getsea.bsky.social to support the next generation of applicants to PhD programs in Southeast Asian Studies! Details and how to apply below —

In Plain Sight

One of my favorite @turtelista.bsky.social (Tyrell Haberkorn) books, probably the one I think with most often.

The argument, now deeply relevant in the US, is that autocrats intentionally flaunt abuses of power precisely to normalize those abuses.

uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/I/In-P...

Thanks for the kind words @burrata.bsky.social. It has been at once terrifying, and useful, to recognize the authoritarian playbook in the US. And the urgent question remains: how to interrupt it, and in as many ways as possible?

Upcoming conference on #academicfreedom in #SoutheastAsia and the United States, organized by
@nysean.bsky.social.
Both in-person and online -- details and how to register below --

Graphic with a white background and text: The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective

The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/15/g...

Call from @getsea.bsky.social for graduate student mentors to advise prospective applicants to PhD programs in Southeast Asian Studies! Details below —

The courts are being weaponised to silence survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Our new report sets out the urgent changes needed to protect them, including universal anti-SLAPP legislation to ensure no voice goes unheard. Read the report ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/the-...

#China: We join a coalition of more than 90 human rights NGOs calling for the release of Swedish publisher Gui Minhai on the 10th anniversary of his kidnapping by Chinese agents in Thailand. #FreeGuiMinhai: rsf.org/en/china-90-...

ก่อนปิดนิทรรศการ ขอเชิญทุกท่านร่วมชมและร่วมปลดปล่อยเสียงและร่างกายในกิจกรรมแสดงการสด (Live Performance) บนพื้นที่ห้องนิทรรศการหลัก ชั้น 8 หอศิลปวัฒนธรรมแห่งกรุงเทพมหานคร ซึ่งเป็นหนึ่งในโปรแกรมที่เชื่อมขยายจากบริบทของนิทรรศการ ดาราภิวัตน์ ภูมิทัศน์เงา (Constellation of Complicity) โดยฝ่ายนิทรรศการ หอศิลปกรุงเทพฯ . !! พลาดไม่ได้ !! กับศิลปะการแสดงสดที่ไร้การปิดกั้น เพื่อยืนหยัดในเสรีภาพการแสดงออก ในวันศุกร์ที่ 17 ตุลาคม 2568 เวลา 16:00 น. โดยศิลปินและนักแสดงระดับสากล คาเงะ - ธีระวัฒน์ มุลวิไล — Before the exhibition comes to an end, we cordially invite you to experience and free your voice and body in the live performance at the Main Exhibition Gallery, 8th floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre – part of program extended from the Constellation of Complicity exhibition’s context, organized by the Exhibition Department, BACC. . !! Don’t Miss !! An unbound live performance that stands firm for freedom of expression, on Friday, October 17, 2025, at 4:00 PM. Featuring internationally renowned artist and performer, Kage – Teerawat Mulvilai.

New event!
📆17th Oct
🕓4pm Thailand Time

To close out the Exhibition "Constellation of Complicity" at BACC in Bangkok, Live performance "Kage" by Teerawat Mulvilai

Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DPkr-A0kkgJ

Powerful words from author Saleem Haddad, reminding us of the power of stories to resist attempts to control the truth. What are you reading for #BannedBooksWeekUK?

Let us know in the thread ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...

I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

Songs Beyond Borders: Thailand and Transnational Musical Connections — New York Southeast Asia Network Join NYSEAN and NYU MAIR for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig about the way that music features in their new books and how they engage with songs in their various writings. B...

I'll be speaking with @jwassers.bsky.social on Friday, October 3 (3:30pm) at the Wagner School at NYU on the topic of music, Southeast Asia, and transnational aesthetics.

It's a joint book talk! Jeff's is lovely (and available as an audio edition). Come one come all.

www.nysean.org/events/songs...

YouTube video by JSEALab Indonesia in Crisis: Affan Kurniawan, Protest, and a Polity on the Brink

ICYMI, recording of ** Indonesia in Crisis: #AffanKurniawan, Protest, and a Polity on the Brink ** held on 8 September 2025.

Organized and hosted by the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab, SEA Coalition for Academic Freedom and @nysean.bsky.social

ACLS Announces Winners of 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards $50,000 prizes award four open access books in the humanities and fund future open access publications

ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. These prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023: bit.ly/4mS9oDX

Cats belonging to Indonesian politicians are the unexpected symbol of protests Images of these frightened cats rescued by concerned citizens have struck a deep chord in cat-obsessed Indonesia.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Assistant Professor -Modern Southeast Asian Humanities - Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

TT Assistant Professor Position in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities at UC-Berkeley!

Further details below --