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Yaqi Xi
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Literary translator, audio maker. PhD student at Uni of Warwick, UK.
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I (@woolzz.bsky.social) was honoured to chair "Translating Rape", the fantastic keynote speech at #IPCITI2025. Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney (@drpaulinehenry.bsky.social) proposed a feminist methodology of translation that responds ethically to the complexities of translating traumatic texts. (1/4)
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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🔉🎉Stay tuned for our week-long #IPCITI2025 recap!

Here's a little sneak peek of the wonderful institutional welcome delivered by our Co-head of School @warwick-smlc.bsky.social, Professor Elisabeth Herrmann and Dr Caroline Summers from @warwicktranslation.bsky.social (1/2)
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
📢 FINAL day for early bird registration for #IPCITI2025! Register today at warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod....

Check out our latest programme here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
October 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🤩🥳 We’re open for registration!! Get your early bird tickets for #IPTICI2025 at warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
October 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
One week to go! Don’t miss your chance to be part of our #IPCITI2025 programme😊 Submit your abstract soon!
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney (Newcastle University) as our keynote speaker at #IPCITI2025, 18th International #Postgraduate #Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting

📢 Don’t forget – the deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
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July 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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We’re thrilled to welcome Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney (Newcastle University) as our keynote speaker at #IPCITI2025, 18th International #Postgraduate #Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting

📢 Don’t forget – the deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our #cfp for #ipciti2025 is now open! Send in your proposals!!
We are delighted to share the #CfP for the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting 🤩 The deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July. Visit our website or scan the QR code to read the call for papers! Get in touch if you have any questions.
May 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Our newest themed book, "Sex & Sexuality" comes out May 1st.  Ten previously published short stories from our monthly magazine on the subject the ethics of sex and sexuality. buff.ly/KDKk25y
April 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Instructions for Staying Afloat

On Wednesday, the sky came down in its gray coat, in its knowing, the way a mother leans over you after the fever breaks, her hand already cold. The rain slid sideways. A boy you knew once held your mouth open to the air like a bloom, said swallow. The sea will come…
Instructions for Staying Afloat
On Wednesday, the sky came down in its gray coat, in its knowing, the way a mother leans over you after the fever breaks, her hand already cold. The rain slid sideways. A boy you knew once held your mouth open to the air like a bloom, said swallow. The sea will come for you soon enough. He is not here now.
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April 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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📚 DYSPHORIA MUNDI READING LIST 📚

Paul B. Preciado, author of DYSPHORIA MUNDI, published 27 March 2025, shares some books that inspired the writing of his latest book. See the list and read about each pick here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/04/paul...
April 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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"For decades, Krause has recorded biophonies from around the planet, and noticed an overriding trend: the natural world is going quiet. As habitats and species are lost to climate change, their voices disappear."

“The Last of the Nightingales” Tells the Story of How Soundscapes Change After a Fire:
“The Last of the Nightingales” Tells the Story of How Soundscapes Change After a Fire
Masha Karpoukhina’s documentary follows a soundscape ecologist who lost everything in a California wildfire.
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February 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Chorus

Translator's Note: The original Chinese text of "Chorus" (《歌队》) was published in the January 2024 print edition of 鲤Newriting magazine. The English translation is appearing here for the first time and has been carried out with the author's permission. Entrance Sitting in a Malatang diner, I…
Chorus
Translator's Note: The original Chinese text of "Chorus" (《歌队》) was published in the January 2024 print edition of 鲤Newriting magazine. The English translation is appearing here for the first time and has been carried out with the author's permission. Entrance Sitting in a Malatang diner, I wait for Lina. Seven fifteen becomes nine. Two and a half pots of hot water in, I'm sweating a little, feeling the evening chill.
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March 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM