Suddenly sitting on the bus thinking about the difference between pushing a button through the hole or pulling it from the other side, as a right-handed two-armed womenswear-wearer.

Thank you - your book offered was such an invigorating thesis! The idea of regional formation is now a huge part of how I'm trying to read - finding a SE Asian form in the other transimperial trajectory (European colonialism > US imperialism > postcolonial multiethnic nation-building) you allude to.

TIL a lot of new things about this part of the world!

Not just you 😅 I immediately got ready to send this with a "???" to historian friends.

I think it's underrated in the sense that it isn't taken as seriously (as the others AND as it should be)! Northanger is also just gleeful.

I just want to write a dissertation and graduate so that I can plan my wedding 😤

Reader 2 was *so* nice to me. Then the editors brought in Third Reader - which is very Shakespearean 😭 - who was also incredibly kind and encouraging. I am ready to throw hands to defend them coming in and giving such great feedback as a professional favour!

I think that's the "camino de toda carne" 🤔

Soleil Ho's breakout 2013 essay "Craving the Other" and Shing Yin Khor's response, both Bitch bylines, had tremendous impact on me as an angry adolescent Southeast Asian woman. Stunning, brilliant works - I can't believe they were taken off the Web just like that.

My family's first Premier Inn holiday breakfast had my mother charmed to learn that porridge, in the UK, comes with milk and honey and contains no rice. Still a delightful memory for us!