Shelly Kraicer
@shellyk.bsky.social
Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
The leaders of the Democratic Party refuse to exercise their power to fight authoritarianism. The Democratic Party, just as progressive power peaks, shits away its power & embraces the US authoritarian regime, intoxicated by the restoration of white supremacy. The American opposition lies elsewhere.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The leaders of the Democratic Party refuse to exercise their power to fight authoritarianism. The Democratic Party, just as progressive power peaks, shits away its power & embraces the US authoritarian regime, intoxicated by the restoration of white supremacy. The American opposition lies elsewhere.
Ran away to Vancouver for the weekend and, miraculously, it didn’t rain for two days.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Ran away to Vancouver for the weekend and, miraculously, it didn’t rain for two days.
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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New York's IndieChina Film Festival, scheduled for November 8-15, has been abruptly cancelled over safety concerns. The Chinese authorities had targeted participants and even the organizer's friends and family with harassment and threats. Read the official statement: indiechina.org/%e5%85%b3%e4...
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
New York's IndieChina Film Festival, scheduled for November 8-15, has been abruptly cancelled over safety concerns. The Chinese authorities had targeted participants and even the organizer's friends and family with harassment and threats. Read the official statement: indiechina.org/%e5%85%b3%e4...
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The organizer of the inaugural IndieChina Film Festival in New York said he was forced to cancel after facing a "relentless" pressure campaign, and that he may be unable to travel back to China.
"I did think it might be better here....It turns out I was wrong."
"I did think it might be better here....It turns out I was wrong."
Indie Chinese film festival in US canceled after pressure campaign
Organizer's reports of harassment echo other allegations of transnational repression
asia.nikkei.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The organizer of the inaugural IndieChina Film Festival in New York said he was forced to cancel after facing a "relentless" pressure campaign, and that he may be unable to travel back to China.
"I did think it might be better here....It turns out I was wrong."
"I did think it might be better here....It turns out I was wrong."
Revisiting the Joyce Wieland exhibition at the AGO before we see her Reason over passion tonight at TIFF Cinematheque. This monumental quilt normally spans both tracks on a balcony inside Spadina subway station, at Kendall.
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Revisiting the Joyce Wieland exhibition at the AGO before we see her Reason over passion tonight at TIFF Cinematheque. This monumental quilt normally spans both tracks on a balcony inside Spadina subway station, at Kendall.
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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
Rida Abu Rass explores, in a fine article in New Lines Magazine, what it's like for a Palestinian-Israeli to return home to Jaffa during the genocide.
newlinesmag.com/first-person...
newlinesmag.com/first-person...
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Rida Abu Rass explores, in a fine article in New Lines Magazine, what it's like for a Palestinian-Israeli to return home to Jaffa during the genocide.
newlinesmag.com/first-person...
newlinesmag.com/first-person...
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I spent some time spelunking in the footnotes of the Oregon National Guard litigation and came to the horrible conclusion that we're watching the record decay in real time under the weight of a right-wing influencer circus www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
Influencers have fractured reality in Portland
Right-wing content creators managed to successfully brand the Portland police as ‘antifa.’
www.theverge.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I spent some time spelunking in the footnotes of the Oregon National Guard litigation and came to the horrible conclusion that we're watching the record decay in real time under the weight of a right-wing influencer circus www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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Lesson to Canadian mayors: you can stand up to premiers. They’ve got the power but you have the people.
Lesson to Ontario liberals as they search for someone again
Zohran Mamdani overcoming a nationwide smear campaign from both sides of the establishment once again proves that there is no substitute for simply being the person you say you are.
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Lesson to Canadian mayors: you can stand up to premiers. They’ve got the power but you have the people.
Taking pleasure where you can find it in the NYT:
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Taking pleasure where you can find it in the NYT:
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This account will be equal parts hopeful and gloating for the rest of the evening. To that end: Pour one out for the pile of NYC billionaire money that was utterly incinerated tonight!
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This account will be equal parts hopeful and gloating for the rest of the evening. To that end: Pour one out for the pile of NYC billionaire money that was utterly incinerated tonight!
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Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
Perhaps I need quickly to rethink my "not going to New York under the current US regime" policy?
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Perhaps I need quickly to rethink my "not going to New York under the current US regime" policy?
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With mini profiles of filmmaker/curators Echo Xuedan Tang and Zhu Rikun, and a quote from @shellyk.bsky.social
As China’s space for independent film continues to shrink, two filmmakers-turned-curators have established festivals in Berlin and New York, creating vital platforms for Chinese cinema that can no longer be shown at home.
A New Global Scene for Independent Chinese Film | ChinaFile
This November, two unrelated festivals of independent Chinese-language films are taking place outside of China. The CiLENS Berlin Indie Chinese Cinema Week, which runs from November 1 to 9, is now in its fourth year. In New York, the inaugural IndieChina Film Festival is on from November 8 to 15.It’s a surprisingly positive development. “Many of us attending a conference on
www.chinafile.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
With mini profiles of filmmaker/curators Echo Xuedan Tang and Zhu Rikun, and a quote from @shellyk.bsky.social
Be wary, New Yorkers. Your local Paper of Record found an anonymous person "asking questions" about a person accused by some anonymous people of anti-semitism of being indirectly linked to someone linked to Mamdani. Oooh. Nice reporting, Prestigious Newspaper. Locked down that story nicely.
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Be wary, New Yorkers. Your local Paper of Record found an anonymous person "asking questions" about a person accused by some anonymous people of anti-semitism of being indirectly linked to someone linked to Mamdani. Oooh. Nice reporting, Prestigious Newspaper. Locked down that story nicely.
Very excited I’m going to see this great film for the first time in the theatre.
November 5 in Toronto, ON: Joyce Wieland’s La raison avant la passion/Reason over Passion (1967–69). Introduction by film preservationist Stephen Broomer.
Wednesday, November 5, 6:30pm at TIFF Lightbox.
Wednesday, November 5, 6:30pm at TIFF Lightbox.
Reason Over Passion
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world, through film.
tiff.net
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Very excited I’m going to see this great film for the first time in the theatre.
New York Times news update writers need some editing. I can help:
"[Mamdani] is a 34-year-old democratic socialist with a broad and ambitious platform who seeks to tax the extremely wealthy to finance necessary new social programs and who refuses to support Jewish supremacist ideology in Israel."
"[Mamdani] is a 34-year-old democratic socialist with a broad and ambitious platform who seeks to tax the extremely wealthy to finance necessary new social programs and who refuses to support Jewish supremacist ideology in Israel."
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
New York Times news update writers need some editing. I can help:
"[Mamdani] is a 34-year-old democratic socialist with a broad and ambitious platform who seeks to tax the extremely wealthy to finance necessary new social programs and who refuses to support Jewish supremacist ideology in Israel."
"[Mamdani] is a 34-year-old democratic socialist with a broad and ambitious platform who seeks to tax the extremely wealthy to finance necessary new social programs and who refuses to support Jewish supremacist ideology in Israel."
Mambdani's campaign makes me feel joy in this terrible time. And I don't even get to vote for him (though I would if I were a Jewish New Yorker). And Corey's lovely piece communicates that joy, and Zohran's campaign's honesty & brilliance. Hey Federal NDP, maybe there's something to study here?
watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people
this is my story about how they did it
this is my story about how they did it
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Mambdani's campaign makes me feel joy in this terrible time. And I don't even get to vote for him (though I would if I were a Jewish New Yorker). And Corey's lovely piece communicates that joy, and Zohran's campaign's honesty & brilliance. Hey Federal NDP, maybe there's something to study here?
Reposted by Shelly Kraicer
watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people
this is my story about how they did it
this is my story about how they did it
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people
this is my story about how they did it
this is my story about how they did it
Read this China Heritage essay collection on Double Nine. Just delightful.
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Read this China Heritage essay collection on Double Nine. Just delightful.
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The level of pumpkin carving to which I aspire
(By the artist Michael Cherney)
「忽肚痛不可堪，不知是冷熱所致，欲服大黃湯，冷熱俱有益。如何為計，非臨床。」
(By the artist Michael Cherney)
「忽肚痛不可堪，不知是冷熱所致，欲服大黃湯，冷熱俱有益。如何為計，非臨床。」
October 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The level of pumpkin carving to which I aspire
(By the artist Michael Cherney)
「忽肚痛不可堪，不知是冷熱所致，欲服大黃湯，冷熱俱有益。如何為計，非臨床。」
(By the artist Michael Cherney)
「忽肚痛不可堪，不知是冷熱所致，欲服大黃湯，冷熱俱有益。如何為計，非臨床。」
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Finished reading The Party’s Interests Come First”. Xi Zhongxun comes across as a half-tragic, half-sentimental, more-than-half-compromised figure. Torigian makes all the complexity come alive.
This is an amazing paragraph from @josephtorigian.bsky.social ‘s biography of Xi Zhongxun: “The Party’s Interests Come First”. I want to know more about Puyi and Xi’s social interactions. One wonders exactly what they talked about. (Zhou here is Zhou Enlai).
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Finished reading The Party’s Interests Come First”. Xi Zhongxun comes across as a half-tragic, half-sentimental, more-than-half-compromised figure. Torigian makes all the complexity come alive.