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Xine Yao PhD (she/they)
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DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine

from the colonies

https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec?

I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13

They would love to see some of you there! @c19americanists.bsky.social

branca-2025.weebly.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It’s Libra season!!!

Issey Miyake + HR Giger from the Taschen sale = me

It’s Libra season!!!
September 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“At their heart I guess every queer theorist is just some random person”

— @prettycritical on TikTok discussing the lesbian master doc that used to dominate Tumblr 🌈✨💖
August 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations to my PhD student Sophie Chauhan for having her book Curious Affinities @hajarpress.bsky.social in the window of the iconic Gay’s the Word @gaystheword.bsky.social in London!

(The carabiner on the cover! 🩷🧡🤍🫰🏼)

Alongside Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Audre Lorde!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
July 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
An inexplicable Google review of the club across from the microbrewery where we are in Montpellier

“I found myself fighting with a wild boar in front of the entrance. Is this normal for wild pigs in town? Run away! Not to mention the magpie nies and shit on our heads just before entering the club”
June 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🏳️‍🌈WED JUNE 18 @ 10 PM BST/5 PM EST🏳️‍🌈

✨💫Queer Femininities Roundtable ft. *
JOAN NESTLE💫 ✨

REGISTER tinyurl.com/4ffk5u4f

Honoured to join Sarah-Joy Ford, Rhea Ashley Hoskins, Stacy Macias, Chaka Bachmann

Thanks @roisinryanflood.bsky.social
@ciscuoe.bsky.social

#pridemonth2025 #LGBTQ #pride
June 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Thanks to #longcovid I had 2 diff appointments in the last few days at the National Hospital for Neurology

…leading me to discover Matbakh

Their iced coconut rose latte is amazing! 💕
May 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
💫 ✨Thank you Fuego Nails for this beautiful nail art for my wedding based on @luminousmethods.bsky.social Lucia Lorenzi’s artwork on the cover of my book DISAFFECTED @dukepress.bsky.social!✨💫

(She’s incredibly talented
— did fka twigs’ & Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s nails for “Perfect Stranger” mv)
May 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My chapter “Unfeelings that Matter: On Unfeeling as Queer Literary Heuristic”

In

The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies ed Melissa Sanchez

Initial thoughts on crip of colour critique #LongCOVID

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
April 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Honoured to be on the jury for the @bshsnews.bsky.social British Society for the History of Science 2025 Hughes Prize for best accessible book on the history of science!

Submissions are open — see below!

www.bshs.org.uk/submissions-...
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Honoured to be on the jury for the @bshsnews.bsky.social British Society for the History of Science 2025 Hughes Prize for best accessible book on the history of science!

Submissions are open — see below!

www.bshs.org.uk/submissions-...
March 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🚨 C19ers & Asian Americanists! 🚨I’m co-hosting

@c19americanists.bsky.social Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long C19

Wed 4/9/25 3:00-4:30pm EST

Ft Julia H. Lee (UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Maryland), and Caroline Yang (UMass)
March 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#MLA2026 #MLA26 19th Century American Forum Guaranteed Panel: RESOLUTION!!!!!!

A roundtable to protest MLA’s R2025-1 suppression: discussions on how to organize, teach, research nineteenth-century American literary studies with a commitment to staying and fighting

Share & submit!
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My dear friend Corey Liu’s debut YA gaysian horror novel HE’S SO POSSESSED WITH ME is out Oct 14! Pre-order!

Jennifer’s Body meets Heartstopper

#lgbtqreads #horror

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/corey...
March 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Chuffed to share my essay for The New C19 American Literary Studies @cambridgeup.bsky.social!

Overview of the field & reckoning 30+ years on from The Culture of Sentiment

I turn to Zitkála-Šá’s figuration of the desire to become “unfeeling stone”

Happy to share! #litpoc #poc19 #c19amlit
February 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
#BlackStudies in the UK seminar series

Dr Aleema Gray
‘Capture Land: Rastafari and the Reclaiming of St Agnes Place’

Dr Nathaniel Telemaque
‘Black Studies Influences on a Black British Photographic Practice’

Organized by Amber Lascelles, Lewi Mondal, Carmen Andall Woodroofe
February 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Dionne Brand

Winter Epigrams
Reprinted in Nomenclature


Sadistic February brings me to my knees,
Then, I re/examine my life,
In a maudlin fashion,
Conclude that I’m worthless
And spend March and April
In a wretched heap
Beside the radiator
February 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
#MLA25 #MLA2025 SATURDAY

MLA for Justice in Palestine

10:15: Indigenous Solidarity and Settler Colonialism, from Turtle Island to Palestine (Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Salon 18 (1st Floor)

12:30: MLA Delegate Assembly (assemble for action at 12)

 List of panels @modernlanguage.bsky.social
January 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#MLA25 #MLA2025 Friday

MLA Members for Justice in Palestine

Noon: Hilton Prince of Wales (2nd floor) Pop-Up Palestinian Poetry event by Delegate Assembly

List of Palestine-related panels today
January 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
#MLA25 vibe

Gory ravaged corpse of a pigeon

“Ballz make it Better”
January 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#MLA25

We call on MLA @modernlanguage.bsky.social uphold its mission to support “justice throughout the humanities ecosystem” rather than prioritizing corporate profit, and in speaking out against the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Also embarrassing for our field that AHA voted on this before MLA!
January 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
#MLA25

Sunday Jan 12 @ 1:45 (Salon 19): “Working Under Fire: Precarity, Censorship, and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Classroom” hosted by LLC 19th American Forum

Donate to Crips for eSIMs for Gaza, a queer disabled BIPOC-led fundraiser

Shared #MLA24 now at almost $2mil CAD!
January 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#MLA25

Thursday Jan 9 @ 12 (Riverside Complex, Chart C): “Teaching Phillis Wheatley (Peters)” panel hosted by TC Race and Ethnicity Forum

Please also see the list of events and actions by MLA Members for Justice in Palestine
January 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The sweet ginger boy of the Yao Family has just gone in for surgery after 2 days at 2 different animal hospitals

Please send your best wishes to Toby 🙏🏼
January 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
When your organization’s mandatory cybersecurity training inadvertently highlights very cool anticapitalist anticolonial ecoactivism 💀💀💀💀
December 17, 2024 at 11:39 PM