Brief notes, since I’m somewhere in-between music practice, grant proposal writing, and sleep: Growing Fins remains my most updated blog. I just posted a mixtape. Short story reviews and reading notes happen only once a month over at Bibliotheca Luminis. Because of pretty intense academic deadlines, the fiction writing goes slow. But consistently. Some nights … Continue reading From The Escritoire 18/02/2022
Can you believe we’re well into the second month of the year? I can’t! So much has been happening in my world and I’ve just been trying to juggle all the research-related work I’ve been doing with the teaching, the supervising, the reading of PhD proposals, the grant application process and something else I’m cooking … Continue reading From The Escritoire 8/02/2022
Happy New Year! It’s the first working day of the year for me, after a two week vacation mostly to emotionally and mentally recuperate from a very rough year. I’m ready to get going! After some consideration and pruning, I decided to bring back this sub-blog for the main author site. I kept what was … Continue reading From The Escritoire 10/01/2022
I did promise I’d re-post this after some updates/confirmation of details were made. A few months back, I was invited to present a talk at an IIUM symposium for Malaysian Folktales in the 21st Century. That will be happening on the 18th of August 2021, at 10:30am-11:30am Malaysian time. It’s a one hour talk so … Continue reading Speaking Engagement: A Practice-Based Feminist Revisioning of Otherworldly Women in Malay Hikayats
Hi, I never got around to sharing this link. This was my third time on BFM, fourth if you count that little soundclip they asked from me last year during the start of our MCO 1.0 to tell people to stay at home. This one really struck me at the heart of my intersecting nerderies. … Continue reading My Second Radio Interview of the Year