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We condemn the guilty verdict issued to Jimmy Lai today. This has been a sham trial from start to finish - the most grotesque display of how far Hong Kong has fallen from free to authoritarian. Our statement ⬇ www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/12/jimm...

Commentary I co-wrote (for #AsiaNow of @asianstudies.org ) with two talented scholars (one originally from Thailand and the other from Belarus) on the value of looking back to Asia & Belarus 2019-2021 while thinking about this year's Gen Z wave, just reprinted by LSE blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/12...

Great upcoming event from @getsea.bsky.social for those interested in SEA Studies in the United States! Details and how to register below --

Upcoming event from @getsea.bsky.social! Learn about Southeast Asian Studies from graduate students studying SEA at universities across the US. Area studies, resources, programs, funding, advisors, general advice & more will be discussed! Dec. 15 @ 2:00pm (PT) / 5:00pm (ET) bit.ly/3Ym7dhj

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

"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

tfw mother won’t give you a second dinner

#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 We call for the complaints against him to be withdrawn immediately.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

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..."

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.

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 —

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...

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 --

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-...

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.

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...

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 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

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

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

They have just enough (im)plausible deniability here to say that it’s about the Ride of the Valkyries scene from Apocalypse Now but yeah that’s the “game” they are playing

Statement by @amnestyuk.bsky.social supporting Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Thailand’s first conscientious objector www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne... cc @marcusrediker.bsky.social

Join @jsealab.bsky.social, @nysean.bsky.social and SEACAF for this upcoming webinar: “ #Indonesia in Crisis: #AffanKurniawan, Protest,and a Polity on the Brink” 📅 Sunday, September 7, 2025 🕗 8 PM CST | 9 PM EST 📅 Monday, September 8, 2025 🕗 8:00 AM ICT | 11 AM AEST 🔗 Register : bit.ly/4ncNJpT

A new translation from JSEALab breaks down the process of remilitarization in Indonesia which has led to civil unrest this week & the death of an innocent food delivery driver, Affan Kurniawan. bit.ly/4naCIp7  #polisiindonesia #JusticeForAffan #BubarkanDPR #affankurniawan #indonesiagelap #demodpr

New #JusticeinTranslation from the @jsealab.bsky.social on #AffanKurniawan in #Indonesia! ** Justice for Affan Kurniawan: The First Civilian Casualty of the Remilitarization of Indonesia, a collection of documents introduced and translated by Christopher Hulshof. ** Read/Download: bit.ly/4naCIp7

The fall issue of Dissent, with a special section on Authoritarianism and Resistance, is off to the presses and will be in mailboxes soon. My editor's note contains this observation about our suspension of states between authoritarianism and democracy

Contributors to the RAINSTORM feature so far: www.facebook.com/media/set?va...

Powerful and urgent zine from @focussouth.bsky.social on #care and #resistance in #socialmovements. Available in multiple languages! Download the zine here: www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

2 review essays on fictional works set in Asia came out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social this week: Darran Wan's on 2 novels about Southeast Asia lareviewofbooks.org/article/emer... & Rhoda Kwan's on Fang Fang's Soft Burial & Tsering Döndrup’s The Red Wind Howls lareviewofbooks.org/article/howl...

Listen to Scholars at Risk's latest 'Free to Think' podcast about academic freedom in Thailand and the targeting of Dr. Paul Chambers under the country's draconian lèse majesté law -- www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/po...

“How does a communist guerilla in one of the Cold War’s forgotten battlefields regain his footing at the end of history?” Darren Wan reviews "Delicious Hunger" by Hai Fan and "State of Emergency" by Jeremy Tiang. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emergency-unending/

Upcoming @getsea.bsky.social minicourse on "Global Zomias: Highland Southeast Asia"! Priority for graduate students in Southeast Asian Studies, but open beyond also -- Full syllabus available here: tinyurl.com/55jf69s5 Applications are available here: tinyurl.com/44ms234z

Rethinking Social Movements.Indonesian Studies talk coming up on Tuesday morning (EST) and Tuesday evening (ICT)! Details below --

I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...