Ryan Gustafsson
@RyanGustafsson
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writer & researcher • @adoptedfeels • @CMBMNpodcast • on Wurundjeri country
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined February 2018
Join us next Monday at The Moat for our latest instalment of The Next Big Thing, and hear new work from a line-up of writers exploring the body and its intersections with gender, sexuality, fashion, genetics and age.
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#PODCAST BIG IDEAS @RadioNational “The legacy of South Korea's international adoption program” @MediaActive with Assoc Professor Eleana Kim & Dr @RyanGustafsson. “Ear to Asia” produced by @Profactual for Asia Institute, @ArtsUnimelb.
abc.net.au
Between the 1950s and 1980s an estimated 200,000 children were adopted by families in America, Europe and Australia. Adoptees are now seeking to connect with their place of birth and to understand...
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“Yet isn’t taste already a mode of being haunted? Can one taste without disintegration?” ✨love this one from @RyanGustafsson✨
'How do you begin to write a history both personal and radically inaccessible, one that traces a series of erasures?' @RyanGustafsson on Grace M. Cho https://t.co/fMlGXc8nId
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new edition of the liminal review of books / ft. @terriannqs, @bobuqsayed, @hellohourani, @RyanGustafsson + more https://t.co/fMiRc8BI6D
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hey folks – there's a sydney launch event for NOTHING TO HIDE happening this month at marrickville library. tuesday 18th october with readings from contributors @imbi, @packetofchips & @less_glorious. u can register here! https://t.co/TZ7H8MXzU3
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Join ibyangIN in solidarity with Domestic Adoptee Solidarity to translate 5-part video series into English. Donate here: https://t.co/jaiS9tI2GZ
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I’ve been thinking about what it might mean to historicize the #adoptee subject - as a knower, as curious, who raises questions, who searches because of what they know & have learned (with others). Thanks to @SydReviewBooks for including this in their Rewriting Kinship series.
'What comes ‘after’ kinship? In what follows, I wish to shift the focus from adoptive familial contexts to explore adoptees’ curiosity as they trace, reflect on, or speculate about their pasts as adults.' https://t.co/CemzcmlThC
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I went to the launch of Nothing to Hide tonight, edited by @YvesRees and Co. This passage from a reading by @RyanGustafsson was just so beautiful, I had to share. The whole anthology of trans and gender diverse writing is brilliant.
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On the legacy of Korean overseas #adoption with Eleana Kim - great to be part of this conversation on #EarToAsia podcast
🎙️ PODCAST: 200K South Korean babies & children have been adopted into mainly white families in western nations, leaving a trail of fractured identities. 🔗 https://t.co/ippJeSutWc With @RyanGustafsson #AsiaInstitute & Eleanor Kim @UCIrvine
@MelbAsiaReview #EarToAsia
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As the hotly anticipated K-BOX hits rehearsals, singer and writer Hana Crisp writes about difficult conversations, and why she & Ryan Gustafsson started the podcast Adopted Feels. Read about it on the Engine Room Blog > https://t.co/932EmGsdEv
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look who arrived in miami! i’m intensely proud of this anthology and kind of dumbstruck to finally be holding so many years of work and artistic collaboration in my little hands, i’m gonna post the link to purchase the book below pls go buy it!!!
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☁️☁️☁️hyped for THESE THOUGHTS LARGE AND PUBLIC this weekend☁️☁️☁️listen in via the link; or irl☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️the whole program is such a dream☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️& Sun 2:30 I’ll be reading some poems with Cher Tan, Elena Gomez, & Melody Paloma ♡〜（ゝ。∂）☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️ https://t.co/sqiQSq8FIm
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Join us for readings, drinks + books, as we celebrate the launch of Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory (@PanteraPress) Thursday, 1 September / 6.30PM—late Loop Bar Melbourne https://t.co/IVqfVociM1
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Ahh excited for this! I’ll be reading a piece on archives, bodies, & adoption, which appears in @liminalmag’s anthology ✨Against Disappearance✨ @PanteraPress
For October's The Next Big Thing, writers @AliceBWrites, @grillzoid, @RyanGustafsson, Chloe Komesarook and Lucianne Tonti explore the body – the bodies we inherit, how we clothe our bodies, and how different bodies experience youth, gender and sexuality. https://t.co/uTAfEznBqn
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Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory / out September 1 ~ pre-order at your local bookshop ✨ @PanteraPress
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Thanks so much to @RyanGustafsson @benj_hegarty & Qiuping Pan - fellow presenters on "Affective Politics of Gender, Sex and Race in Transnational Asia" Panel this morning #ASAA2022
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