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Kiss of the Rabbit God. dir. Andrew Thomas Huang. 2019.

“I grew up with a deficit of queer Asian visibility on-screen along with the frequent stigmatization and devaluing of Asian male bodies in Western visual culture. I wanted to unpack these issues while also crafting a story that I felt enriched our collective imagination of what queer Asian male love, sex and intimacy could aspire to be.” 

Huang’s first fictional short film, Kiss of the Rabbit God follows a restaurant worker who receives nightly visits from the Rabbit God, also known as Tu’er Shen — the Chinese patron deity of secret relationships and gay love. The 14-minute film explores themes of self-discovery, sexual awakening, and self-acceptance, interwoven with tales from traditional Chinese mythology.

Kiss of the Rabbit God can be watched for free via NOWNESS’ YouTube channel (link).

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Hi, I just released a new chapbook of prose poems titled LA REGIÓN BAJO TIERRA. It’s about stuff like memory, sex work, communism, and insomnia. You can download a free pdf of the chapbook here, and buy a physical copy for $5 here. The front cover is my own art/design, based on these lines from poem #19: The body was a lie. What is human is a gathering of eyes; turning, turning all at once.

Please share this to support my work! If you’re able to purchase a copy, it will be a huge help as I’m trying to save up to buy a cheap new laptop (my current one is +7 years old smh), which will help me out a lot with things like editing this booklet series and my other other (sw) work.

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Squatting Project/Berlin by Simon Leung. 1994.

Simon Leung was born in Hong Kong and grew up in San Jose, California. He is currently a professor of Art at the University of California Irvine. Squatting Project/Berlin was the second among Leung’s Squatting Project series. It was a public poster project created as part of the artist’s 1994 residency at Künsterhaus Bethanien. Posters of a squatting Asian man were wheatpasted at bus stops, walls, and other surfaces in several Berlin neighbourhoods.

 Leung said in an interview that he was inspired in part by his brother’s encounter with squatting Asian immigrants in San Jose. He concluded that although they were not squatting to call attention to themselves, “that was exactly the effect as they rested their (under)assimilated Asian bodies in a habitual position of waiting, incongruous with the sun-bathed sidewalks of a California suburb.”

On each poster the artist also attached a proposal worthy of our rumination:

1. Imagine a city of squatters, an entire city in which everyone created their own chairs with their own bodies.

2. When you are tired, or when you need to wait, participate in this position.

3. Observe the city again from this squatting position.

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whats better than an impoverished korean woman destroying a library of japanese pornography with her man-hating girlfriend

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reblog this & put in the tags your other social media accounts (in case the nsfw cut tomorrow affects your blog!)

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david fincher on the set of zodiac: will someone PLEASE fix jake gyllenhaal’s twink hands

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stop asking me if timothee chalamet is problematic literally he just sucks because he’s sucks

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anyways please support sex workers during this. donate / support what content you can. reblog posts with their information if they’re choosing to move to another platform. don’t treat their livelihoods as a footnote in these discussions of these new policies.

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Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)

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Qianhu Miao Village, Guizhou province, China. 贵州千户苗寨

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Les filles du botaniste

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Lilting (2014), dir. Hong Khaou

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The Handmaiden + Romantic Lines

Bonus:

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Lana Condor photographed for Rollacoaster Magazine by Pier-Alexandre Gagné

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what she says: I’m fine

what she means:

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jeongsa for anonymous