i. method / theory

embodied critique: postcritical, diasporic autotheory
a methodological essay proposing embodied critique as a diasporic practice of attentive, devotional, minoritarian world-building
time, and the silent machine
a lyric autopsy of the systems that automate our trust—an inquiry into how technology metabolizes our lives into data, attention, and power.

Cringe, and Asian American Interface
A study of the moments when Asian American moral performance falters—and what the shame that leaks out reveals about the systems that shape us.
canon, capital, cockroach
a narrative-theoretical essay tracing the migration of value—economic, cultural, and bodily—across immigrant banking systems in Chinatown, global capitalism, and kafka’s metamorphosis

my bai ban body
An essay on how the queer Asian male body is scripted, scrubbed, and distorted by the architectures of racialized desire—and what it means to reclaim opacity after a lifetime of legibility
on grammar, and translation
a three-part autotheroretical inquiry on selfhood as language; how we conjugate across cities, languages, histories—always shifting between being and becoming

a homage to all that
an essay about leaving new york, examining identity, belonging, and memory through the after-image of the city—from queer nightlife to familial inheritance
the double helix city, unzipped
a speculative autotheoretical essay exploring urbanity, kinship, and architectures of intergenerational memory across New york’s chinatowns

ii. autotheory / life-text

iii. archive

sub(altar)n: an embodied archive for the Fuzhounese diaspora
a counter-archive: a site for mapping dispersal, for tracing the constellations of movement, memory, and secrecy that connect us across the world. The archive situates Fuzhounese migration since the 1980s within a broader ecology of post-Mao reform, transnational labor, and diasporic kinship. Drawing from history, art, economics, and Asian/American studies, it gathers materials—scholarship, story, and artifact—that invite readers to braid their own understanding.
Guided by the method of embodied critique, sub(altar)n treats the act of archiving itself as an ethical practice—one that transforms research into care, and documentation into devotion. It resists disembodied history by situating knowledge within lived experience, by reading through affect, proximity, and inheritance. In doing so, it reframes the archive not as repository but as organism—one that metabolizes loss into continuity, silence into texture, absence into relation.

Our/The drone that learns to ... martyr
A blistered/blackout poem confronting our complicity as we witness the ongoing, intentional, and systematic murder of Palestinians carried out by israel … and resist
i’m here too
A rave-poem on being here—alive, fractured, pulsing—inside the signal-swarm of UNFold, a queer rave in east london
hope/core/ritual (call/response)
A two-channel elegy where language pixelates body into code, embodying the echo we call “we”
I’semiotics
a fractal poem about the ‘I’ that must multiply—self-capitalise—to be seen

iv. conceptual poetics