August 9, 2018Written for my dissertation and performed at Capacious: Affect Inquiry/Making Space as part of the conference's "interstices," a space for undisciplined,…
May 8, 2018I was invited to moderate this panel for the Asian American Writers' Workshop at the last minute (a couple days'…
August 22, 2016How to work when the pain is so great it slows even time? Indefatigable voice curling around and in on…
August 21, 2016Because it's called "research," I constantly feel the oppressive shadow of the Ivory Tower: Western, masculine, rational and orderly, demanding…
August 3, 2016I've wanted to say for weeks now that there was a day, while teaching, that I lost my legs, and…
January 28, 2016For a half-hour, my left hand, the one with the magnet implant in it, becomes the hand that commands the…
November 15, 2015Written for and performed at Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures, "The Author is in Pain" is my first foray…
April 8, 2015In any city, in any country, in any university in which you have been enrolled, go into any classroom and…
March 3, 2015My shortform multimodal composition on mobile phone testimony and the Tamil genocide, "War without witness: Mobile phone testimony in preserving…
October 4, 2014A while back an ex-acquaintance of mine joked that my way of being with chronic pain is like being an…