ggGem
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Kunming, Yunnan, China
Musicologist and opera fanatics. The only things you shall see here are my rants and opinions, nothing else.
ggGem says
4 years ago
After the wisdom teeth extraction, I feel like I have every excuse not to do anything.
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4 years ago
Due day of master paper and Spanish test in the morning... I seriously don’t know what to do. why does February only have 28 days???
ggGem says
4 years ago
Johan Botha has the same kind of facial expression for joy, anger, shock, and dying in Otello, and he’s also a blackface in that one.... oh god something is wrong, but he’s a good singer. My political correctness is fighting my aesthetic justice...
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4 years ago
Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith ... Class problems are often ignore in the U.S., and that’s also a problem... but capitalists won’t tell you what class is, they only tell you what (white) democracy means.
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4 years ago
The dean of my department sent an email to three Asian girls, including me, and asked us to write a nomination letter for excellent in teaching for a professor. At first I was willing to write for her, but this fucking race-specific email really insulted me. No thanks. Fuck you all.
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4 years ago
Fell to sleep with light on at 12 am and woke up at 5 am ... ughhhhhhhhrrrr
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4 years ago @Edit 4 years ago
Peter Mattei’s album, Once in My Life, is such a precious one. Singing jazz in an operatic way sounds so innovative and novel. Love love love! (please don't call it cultural appropriation
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4 years ago
When you feel exhausted and don’t wanna sleep, I really have no idea how to solve this inner conflict... and almost Chinese New Year here, happy new year to whoever cares (said by a person who hasn’t been home for a third of her life.)
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4 years ago 2
Yesterday I participated in a clubhouse panel (whatever you call it). OMG, so many fucking mansplainers... Always interrupted women, corrected their grammars, didn't listen to what they said... These fuckers need to shut uuuuup..
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4 years ago
“[vitalism] urges a return to raw, unverbalized lived experience through the bracketing of the sedimented categories and schema by which we reflect on and “deaden” it.” --Donna Jones. I really have no idea what she’s talking abt...