hafiz - the gift. trans. daniel ladinsky
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susan mann - the talented women of the zhang family
rosanne klass - land of the high flags
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This Tuesday is International Day of Transgender Remembrance. I should be dwelling on Happy Things today but it's been a...
terry pratchett - mort terry pratchett - the colour of magic terry pratchett - equal rites terry pratchett...
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John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I...
I'm really, really, really trying to blog more often but dialup connection that drops out every few minutes and a...
Conversations on contemporary art in China that swung around to dance invariably brought mention of Shanghai choreographer and dancer Jin...
One big sadness at leaving Melbourne is missing Sunn0))) and boris vibrating organs and viscera at the Hi-Fi Bar on...
All month I've been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant...
In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the...
It's been about three months since I first mentioned Venus Flytrap, the ultra-tranny manufactured pop group from Thailand, signed to...
Back to what supernaut is really famous for (no, not this, or this, can't you people clean up your smutty...
Yes, I am missing not being in Guangzhou, or joining hundreds of millions on the country's trains. So, from Mary...
I screamed. sunn 0))) upcoming axtions!!! sunn 0))) will be doing our first shows of 2007 overseas. Below are the...
What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the...
Amidst all this grant-writing that is seriously damaging my eyes - colours and objects are permanently dimmer and intangible after...
Album of the week for anyone who loves central Asian music, especially the kind that gets blasted across bazaars, from...
As when I arrived in Adelaide, so too was it grey and occasionally seeped in a fine mist for Bonnie...
I'm sorry!!! I know we were only just talking in the kitchen a few hours ago and you really, really...
Someone, obviously stupid, whom I haven't bothered to remember despite having a vague association in the Melbourne contemporary dance SCENE...
Walking to a bookshop, walking to East St Kilda, walking through Alma Park, listening to my iPod and I was...
Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm...
A bit slack lately blogging about my favourite city, Guangzhou. Yes I do love it that much. 曹斐 Cao Fei...
A while ago I was quite the fan of Lady, the Korean tranny pop sensation riding on the wave of...
One half of me is like, yeah cool look how progressive parts of Asia are for a transsexual to get...
I've been meaning to blog about this for a few days but I am lazy and self-centred. So. Finally I...
Actually I know why you mostly come here and it has nothing to do with having a social conscience. You're...
A truly disgusting start to yesterday was reading about climbers in Tibet on Cho Oyu watching the Chinese Army massacre...
I'm not sure how much I'll be blogging in the next week as things get mental with crush. In the...
Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, "A major exhibition of...
One of the most enjoyable blogs to emerge from Guangdong Province, and one of my favourites for being an art-performance-archaeological-theoretical...
When I was in Hong Kong for a day in early May, as usual I went on my idea of...
I have no idea who nominated me for the Asian Blog Awards 2006, but I'm quite flattered; and quite amused...
National Geographic is one of those magazines like good chocolate I get breathless over when each new issue arrives in...
Reading Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that...
It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for...
Once being first was easy, when everything hadn't been done, lately, first is the prefix on a long chain of...
Shortly before I departed Guangzhou, I went shopping with Michael in search of 剪纸, papercut art, something Foshan was famous...
Tomorrow I'm leaving Guangzhou again. This time flying from the new Baiyun Airport directly to Melbourne, the end of the...
During the weeks I ventured west into the mountains, Korea's Supreme Court was debating whether to permit male-to-female transsexuals to...
Reading maps can describe places that have vanished, ghost inscriptions of shifting fringes, more so in places where geography itself...
I'm going on holiday. For more than a week, maybe even two weeks... One place I've always wanted to visit...
A couple of articles on the current legal and cultural positions of transsexuals in Japan and Korea broadly illustrates a...
My once monthly trip to Hong Kong was under a leaden and saturated sky. Guangzhou and much of the province...
It's that time of the year again, and in wishing to have some kind of fair competition, I neglected to...
South-East Asia's biggest sex market that is, though I always expected Thailand, or Korea or Japan who have the first...
Before it all passes me by again and I'm still looking like an imbecile going ... wuuuuh ... ? this...
I've had a couple of enlightening moments in the beautiful, weird, endlessly diverse world of sex and desire in the...
One of the most influential bands on me from when I first heard the pounding of Blue Monday, and I...
Last year I was less than flattering about the dance I saw at the 第二届广东现代舞周 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival...
It started with Hanzi Smatter's year-old piece on someone who'd got 妖 tattooed on their neck, which might mean "charming...
I'd probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut...