Renyi Hong
@renyihong.bsky.social
labor researcher. associate professor at National University of Singapore (nus). Author of "passionate work". Writing on plasticity, ecology, and child work.
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Signatures needed!
Uber and Lyft drivers are on the precipice of a wage theft settlement and need to push CA AG Bonta to represent what Uber/Lyft really stole, not just a token amount.
Please sign and share this petition.
www.drivers-united.org/wage-theft-s...
Uber and Lyft drivers are on the precipice of a wage theft settlement and need to push CA AG Bonta to represent what Uber/Lyft really stole, not just a token amount.
Please sign and share this petition.
www.drivers-united.org/wage-theft-s...
Wage Theft Settlement Petition - Rideshare Drivers United
www.drivers-united.org
September 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Signatures needed!
Uber and Lyft drivers are on the precipice of a wage theft settlement and need to push CA AG Bonta to represent what Uber/Lyft really stole, not just a token amount.
Please sign and share this petition.
www.drivers-united.org/wage-theft-s...
Uber and Lyft drivers are on the precipice of a wage theft settlement and need to push CA AG Bonta to represent what Uber/Lyft really stole, not just a token amount.
Please sign and share this petition.
www.drivers-united.org/wage-theft-s...
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Living On After Failure," by Irving Goh, which considers new ways of living beyond the failure/success binary. #LGBTQBooks #AffectTheory buff.ly/5okPMh3
September 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "Living On After Failure," by Irving Goh, which considers new ways of living beyond the failure/success binary. #LGBTQBooks #AffectTheory buff.ly/5okPMh3
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Replacing human moderators with ai is glossing over the real issue here: toxic content comes from a systemic disinvestment in care, equity, and fairness. Traumatizing humans or using ineffectual ai just kicks the can down the road. Not news.
TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor
TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Replacing human moderators with ai is glossing over the real issue here: toxic content comes from a systemic disinvestment in care, equity, and fairness. Traumatizing humans or using ineffectual ai just kicks the can down the road. Not news.
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New episode! In this fantastic episode we talk to Nassim Parvin and Neda Atanasoski about their new book Technocreep: The Politics of Things Unseen 👀 Watch now on YouTube or stream on Apple, Spotify and more! 🤩
Watch us on YouTube: youtu.be/ScKSG9VjqxY
Watch us on YouTube: youtu.be/ScKSG9VjqxY
June 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
New episode! In this fantastic episode we talk to Nassim Parvin and Neda Atanasoski about their new book Technocreep: The Politics of Things Unseen 👀 Watch now on YouTube or stream on Apple, Spotify and more! 🤩
Watch us on YouTube: youtu.be/ScKSG9VjqxY
Watch us on YouTube: youtu.be/ScKSG9VjqxY
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I wrote a tribute to Dr. Jonathan Sterne, who passed away this March way too young, in Sounding Out! — a venue he’d published in, and which felt right for it. I owe him a deep debt intellectually and personally, and he was frankly a great person.
soundstudiesblog.com/2025/07/14/i...
soundstudiesblog.com/2025/07/14/i...
“Keep it Weird”: Listening with Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)
Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “sound studies” is often traced to the sonic…
soundstudiesblog.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I wrote a tribute to Dr. Jonathan Sterne, who passed away this March way too young, in Sounding Out! — a venue he’d published in, and which felt right for it. I owe him a deep debt intellectually and personally, and he was frankly a great person.
soundstudiesblog.com/2025/07/14/i...
soundstudiesblog.com/2025/07/14/i...
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"What is a woman? We don’t know yet. We might never have a conclusive answer. ... We know too much about what power would impose upon her and still too little about who she could become if she was free" -McKenzie @mckenziewark.bsky.social reviews ENEMY FEMINISMS ❤️🔥 www.liberreview.com/enemy-femini...
"Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" By Sophie Lewis - LIBER Review
Like any broad social movement, feminism contains many currents. You can take one of two approaches to that. The first would say we’re all in it together against the patriarchy so differences within t...
www.liberreview.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"What is a woman? We don’t know yet. We might never have a conclusive answer. ... We know too much about what power would impose upon her and still too little about who she could become if she was free" -McKenzie @mckenziewark.bsky.social reviews ENEMY FEMINISMS ❤️🔥 www.liberreview.com/enemy-femini...
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Taiwan Studies position at @soasuni.bsky.social
Senior Teaching Fellow in Taiwan Studies at SOAS University of London
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June 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Taiwan Studies position at @soasuni.bsky.social
If you have time this summer, I recommend reading Lennard J. Davis’s 𝘗𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 and David L. Williams’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴 together.
www.dukeupress.edu/poor-things
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June 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
If you have time this summer, I recommend reading Lennard J. Davis’s 𝘗𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 and David L. Williams’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴 together.
www.dukeupress.edu/poor-things
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Google to pay $50 million to settle lawsuit claiming it paid Black workers less
www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/12/g...
www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/12/g...
Google to pay $50 million to settle lawsuit claiming it paid Black workers less
Deal follows a settlement in March with current and former Latino, Indigenous and Pacific Islander employees.
www.mercurynews.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Google to pay $50 million to settle lawsuit claiming it paid Black workers less
www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/12/g...
www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/12/g...
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Excited to be part of this event!
May 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Excited to be part of this event!
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May brings author events with @burrata.bsky.social , @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social , @drbrowne.bsky.social , @alexispauline.bsky.social , @jennrnajera.bsky.social , @totomcgee.bsky.social , @azeiderman.bsky.social , & @michellehsho.bsky.social . Hope you can attend some of them! buff.ly/fNYWRXg
April 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
May brings author events with @burrata.bsky.social , @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social , @drbrowne.bsky.social , @alexispauline.bsky.social , @jennrnajera.bsky.social , @totomcgee.bsky.social , @azeiderman.bsky.social , & @michellehsho.bsky.social . Hope you can attend some of them! buff.ly/fNYWRXg
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I’m very excited to be giving a keynote to promote #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social at this online symposium organized by @meganrose.bsky.social &
@aurelievpetit.bsky.social at
the Media, Gender and Sexualities Group at the University of Tokyo 🏳️🌈 This event is free to attend. All are welcome 🏳️⚧️
@aurelievpetit.bsky.social at
the Media, Gender and Sexualities Group at the University of Tokyo 🏳️🌈 This event is free to attend. All are welcome 🏳️⚧️
✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025
A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures
events.humanitix.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I’m very excited to be giving a keynote to promote #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social at this online symposium organized by @meganrose.bsky.social &
@aurelievpetit.bsky.social at
the Media, Gender and Sexualities Group at the University of Tokyo 🏳️🌈 This event is free to attend. All are welcome 🏳️⚧️
@aurelievpetit.bsky.social at
the Media, Gender and Sexualities Group at the University of Tokyo 🏳️🌈 This event is free to attend. All are welcome 🏳️⚧️
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Only one week until License to Spill hits the shelves. With back-of-the-book blurbs from people those work I deeply admire -- John Durham Peters, Nicole Starosielski, Neta Alexander, and Jussi Parikka. Totally humbled!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255158...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255158...
License to Spill
License to Spill investigates the everyday moments, activities, and spaces where media technologies and liquids collide—from disastrous spilled drinks ...
mitpress.mit.edu
April 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Only one week until License to Spill hits the shelves. With back-of-the-book blurbs from people those work I deeply admire -- John Durham Peters, Nicole Starosielski, Neta Alexander, and Jussi Parikka. Totally humbled!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255158...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255158...