In Conversation: poet Eric Yip and novelist Yin Lo - Negotiating language and identity: Queer writing by HongKongers in the UK

It was such a pleasure to be sharing thoughts with award winning poet Eric Yip on queer, diaspora, writing and identity at a queer bookstore Common Press on Brick Lane.

10 July 2022

This event is being organised by Dr Faith Chiu, Dr Ella Jeffries and Dr Tracey Costly from the Language and Linguistics department at the University of Essex.

The event is funded by the University of Essex.

Workshop

Asia-Art-Activism Zoom Luck

Hosted by me and Annie Jael Kwan, the workshop talked about how to write/ create within (or in between) major and minor historical events. The workshop explored the possibility of our response as well as the creativity that was brought by those impactful protests and demonstrations in Asia.

Researcher in Residence

Asia-Art-Activism.

During the residency, I researched the livelihood, everyday life and destiny of ethnic-Chinese seafarers in Victorian times Limehouse Chinatown London, which came together in the late 19th century and was heavily bombed during WWII. The creative writing piece revitalises their lives and acknowledges their existence with a decolonial perspective.

Podcast/ QueerAsias: Virtualising Cartographies

Queer Asias shares a playlist of audio, moving image and VR works, and a live digital performance that explores the expansive online horizons of queer identity, memories and desire.

Me and Yarli’s audio work The Very Educational Bubble Tea Porn and our collaboration work In Virtual Return We (Can’t) Dehaunt were screened across the duration of the conference from  27 May to 25 June 2021.

The programme is curated by Annie Jael Kwan as a commission for the Paul Mellon Centre’s London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference.

Website:

https://queerasias.art/queerasias-playlist/

對談：談一場跨界的戀愛

dirty press ‧ CLEAN PRESS主辦，煙雨濛濛的星期五，我跟性別學者金曄路在旺角序言書室對談，兩個作者，兩種越界，暢談在愛情上如何流動和超越，還有身份政治如何介入。

Book launch held in Hong Kong Reader Bookstore. It was a rainy day filled with interesting conversations with my guest Dr. Lucetta Kam.