Inside “On Repetition”
“The pieces collected here offer not answers, but forms of attention.”
On Repetition • Curated by Jody Chan and Noa Sun
Community Anthologies: 2025
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On Repetition • Curated by Jody Chan and Noa Sun
“How can language prefigure new rhythms and expressions of freedom, new openings for action—and widen existing ones?”
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ReadUPDATED LOYALTY OATH
“I commit to never speaking of this Loyalty Oath and its existence to anyone.” -
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NEW AGAIN: A FUGUE OF CRUSHES
“Novelty is a particularly dense manifestation of relying on the Other to become simultaneously the grounding of and the escape from the Self.” -
ReadWAITING & WAKING
“The good memories turn. Admit you loved me, the woman mutters over her mother’s grave.” -
ReadArtificially Unintelligible // Ad Nauseam
“A story that you cannot leave is a prison.” -
ReadWhere the body don’t break, still blacks & blues
“The body is a lush field of shame plants. Touch the body and it folds. Touch the body and it turns its back.” -
Read“I’m going to burp, Bonnie!” & other poems
“Our resistance—as dense, multiple, and multiplying as forests and old growth—must outsize these legacies.” -
Readcure & other poems
“unwieldy love ritual of spring- / time pushing golden violet into the sky as / trinket and incense, your voice / in my warm hand. Who are you / in your dreams? -
ReadThe Invisible Fabric of our Connectedness
“LA was where I came to understand myself, and where I came to learn from decades of organizing and Asian diaspora history in North America.”
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“The transgenerational desire to unmake colonial and imperial dreams that have, for so many, become a nightmare.”