phd patch notes (23/04/26)
i spent three hours teaching today back to back again and it really wiped my brain but at least the lessons were productive today. i think one of my tutees doesn't have trouble juggling facts but seems to have trouble juggling opinions...? can't tell what the issue is, will need to consult my orb (read: ask other people for their onions on this and mull over it). 2nd tutee was fine we started on japan which is very productive so we're ahead of the curriculum wahoo
theoretically i'm supposed to have turned in work "this evening" but due to the aforementioned 3 hours of teaching i emailed my profs telling them i would turn it in "this evening" and by this i fully intended to turn it in at like 2am and then i took a nap. and ate dinner. and now i'm actually writing and locked in which is GOOD because i haven't been able to write for the past month so at least the gears are turning OTL
JUST LEARNED THAT MADELEINE LIM LEFT SINGAPORE BECAUSE OF OPERATION SPECTRUM LMFAO this is actually kind of huge for me on the basis of like. it actually presents a point in the queer singapore timeline where queer political activism actually meaningfully overlapped with other forms of political activism in singapore and now it doesn't seem to at all anymore on account of pinkwashing/homonationalism/pragmatic resistance. like pink dot et al is suuuuper divorced from the rest of the political movements in singapore so i do need to do a little more digging into how THAT happened. but this is SUPER INTERESTING
i'm hoping that i'm able to finish my notes on the film and then feed a bit of juice into reorganising my thoughts on delayed rays of a star when i get back to that. i was supposed to do that but frankly i might just go for supervision next week and refer to my paper from when i presented last month instead lmao