| Title | Dear Kafka |
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| Contributor | Annie Malcolm(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0466.1.13 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/redacted-writing-in-the-negative-space-of-the-state/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Annie Malcolm |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2024-10-27 |
| Long abstract | A Chinese painter who called himself Kafka comes out to me in an art village in Shenzhen. It’s a pained coming out — full of loss and hesitation. I write him a letter, an exercise in reflecting on the forms of redaction that take place as a queer in queer-unfriendly spaces, and those that take place as part of the ethnographic practice. |
| Page range | pp. 189–192 |
| Print length | 4 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Annie Malcolm, PhD, is a writer, researcher, and educator. Her doctoral dissertation in anthropology is an ethnography of an art village in South China. She has published her writing in Quartz, SFMOMA, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and Expose Art Magazine. She has taught anthropology at UC Berkeley and curated an exhibition at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. She currently writes for visual artists in the Bay Area and conducts research on community healing, journalism, and wellbeing.