Below is an archive of the Punk Planet columns and essays published since 1998.
PUNK PLANET 66. Former friends turned patriots and a Reagan counter-memorial.
PUNK PLANET ??. Thoughts on the 2003 documentary Afropunk. This will be formatted and uploaded shortly.
PUNK PLANET ??. The second greatest teen film ever, Times Square (1980), and the politics of being queer in public. I need to format this, but it should be up soon.
PUNK PLANET 56. Drag kings, Boy Bands Against War, and how to lasso national affect for the powers of good.
PUNK PLANET 54. Transitions and thwarted high school reunions.
PUNK PLANET 47 (maybe). This is a column which pieces together some of the entries I wrote in the aftermath of 11 September 2001, in response to popular discourses and governmental moves.
PUNK PLANET 45. I wrote this one about the best teen flick ever -- The Legend of Billie Jean (1986). A meditation on rebel girls on film and taking popular culture seriously.
PUNK PLANET 43. Missing for now.
PUNK PLANET 42. I wrote this column about the trip Mark and I took to Alcatraz, and the problematic politics of prison tourism and historical memory. Also reprinted in poppolitics.com.
PUNK PLANET 41. This was an experiment in collaboration -- I wrote this column about the photography of violence (specifically lynching) and its subsequent reproduction as art book or record sleeve or humanitarian aid. Dwayne Dixon at the Literacy Through Photography program at Duke University is the other half of this column. He told me Deborah Willis (recent winner of a "genius grant") liked this.
PUNK PLANET 40. This is a column about riot grrrl and the failure of the so-called "transformative" powers of love and empathy as a political strategy.
PUNK PLANET 38. This column is a number of pieces strung together with a common theme of disturbance (mainly mine) about the Ho Chi Minh protests, abortion rights activism, and everyday life.
PUNK PLANET 37. I wrote this column about race and punk rock after watching Beyond the Screams/Mas Alla los Gritos, a half-hour documentary about Chicano/Latino participation in punk rock/hardcore.
PUNK PLANET 36. I threw this one together about history, memory, and haunting.
PUNK PLANET 35. This is another one I pieced together from my summer road trip across the Midwest: strikes, hunger, personal histories, medical displays, and more.
PUNK PLANET 34. I read an essay in the previous issue about a theory for "moving beyond" race -- breeding racial difference into nothingness. In which I get annoyed at the nationalist heteronormativity disguised as radical liberation, among other things, and talk about sex as a site for racial terror and desire.
PUNK PLANET 33. A topic I think way too much about: the interpenetration of sex, race, and capital. How do we account for sex? Does it have a history? Where does your vibrator come from, anyway? Some part of this inspired an essay I wrote for the academic collection Asian-America.net.
PUNK PLANET 32. My first column, I wrote about Cuba, Viet Nam, and revolutionary nostalgia.
VIET NAM: A JOURNAL/JOURNEY. This was published in the February 1999 issue of Punk Planet. That's the only punk connection, really. A series of journal entries reflecting on the intersection of my small-h history and big-H History.
IT'S (NOT) A WHITE WORLD: LOOKING FOR RACE IN PUNK. This was published
in the November/December 1998 issue of Punk Planet.
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ORIENTALIST KITSCH. A response to the 2002 dust-up over Abercrombie & Fitch's racist t-shirts that argues for analytic specificity in our cultural critique. EPICENTER. I wrote this for Maximumrocknroll about the 1998 death of a punk record store I used to work at in San Francisco. 100%...WOMAN!! I wrote this for the second issue of the political zine called Make, about drag kings on national television talk shows and the ways in which gender performance is tightly scripted and limited by the shows' structures. I haven't put it up yet though, because it needs some fine-tuning. FUCK UNAMERICAN. I wrote this for Maximumrocknroll (issue 198) about the interpenetration of capital and revolution, and specifically one company that claims to be liberating its consumers. I think I wrote this in 1999. WHY QUEER THEORY? MULAN. My Mulan piece from the San Jose Mercury News (1998). Still, this was my take on how to do feminist cultural studies in 1,500 words or less. It was also reprinted at poppolitics.com and Theory.org.uk. HAIR PIECE. A brush with the racial politics of revolution and pig-tails, recently re-vamped. I used to do this a monologue back in 1998, back when I still had aspirations of becoming a multimedia performance artist. HOW TO STAGE A COUP (interview). I interviewed Helen Luu for Maximumrocknroll about her compilation zine. I don't remember what year this was -- maybe 2000? PISS & VINEGAR (interview). I interviewed Dean Spade and Craig Willse for Maximumrocknroll about transpolitics and peeing. I don't remember what year this was either.
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