Author: tzeming

• Essay: Black Asian, White Asian

  From ‘Black Asian, White Asian: Racial Histories and East Asian Choices in the White Settler State’ in Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand: [U]ndoing white supremacy and colonialism …requires acknowledging East Asians’ colour-based privilege in white societies now, how our own pre- and post-colonial cultural history has generated racial thinking, and deeper…

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• Poem: We had a dream

  Response poem to an artwork, commissioned by the Auckland Art Gallery for their Year of the Snake Lunar New Year Festival. Performed 1 February 2025. We had a dream So, by way of introduction: this is a Snake Year poem for Yang Fudong’s 2014 piece‘Tianse: Xin Nuxìng II’ / 天色：新奴性 II / ‘The Coloured Sky:…

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• Essay: Lost in the forest

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• Poem: Bad Example

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