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Michelle Correa
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본캐: Someone PhD-ing in 🇦🇺 about Korean diasporic celebrities in the Philippines 🇰🇷 🇵🇭 가장 중요한 건 배운다는 정신. 부캐: ㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎ
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!

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December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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CfP: Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium happening next May @ NUS, Singapore. More announcements to come, but we're hoping this will kickstart conversations and collaborations for scholars in the region working on transcultural fandom

#AcademicSky #FanStudies #TransculturalFandom #CfPs
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Sharing my 1st PhD pub studying 🇰🇷 diasporic celebs in 🇵🇭. Through the case study of Kpop idol Sandara Park, I show how the interplay btwn presentation of self, nationalistic sentiments & pop culture help shape successful transnational celebrity in contemporary Asia. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
September 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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For Danielle, the Internet isn’t just a tool; it's a community. Some sites are long gone, but the memories remain.

She’s not alone. The internet has been a space for connection, creativity, & nostalgia for many of us.

📝 Tell us your history with the web ⤵️
forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe...

#Wayback1T
August 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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New ##FanStudies article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Ibrahim, K. (2025). Fan-based civic and humanitarian action: the case study of the BTS fan community Borahae from Manila. Celebrity Studies, 1–7.

doi.org/10.1080/1939...
Fan-based civic and humanitarian action: the case study of the BTS fan community Borahae from Manila
K-pop fandom has gained a reputation for social activism, notably in response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and Black Lives Matter movement. This paper draws on media scholar Henry Jenkins’ work ...
doi.org
July 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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If you have a recent PhD and you're from Southeast Asia, you might want to apply for this. Tell your friends about it, too.
#SoutheastAsia #research @asianstudies.org www.asianstudies.org/grants-award...
January 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Nice to see more people here 🎉
November 18, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Would love to meet other PhD students who think out of the box (or who think there is no box) 👌🤪💕
January 24, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Officially a PhD candidate!!! 🎆🥳
January 9, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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A Society that Tolerates Disrespect of Fat Women

“Underlining in the Bookstore” Series: Aubrey Gordon’s What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat

ildaro.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-so...
A Society that Tolerates Disrespect of Fat Women
South Korean feminist journal, which pursues feminism and speaks about human rights from women’s and minorities’ point of view.
ildaro.blogspot.com
December 31, 2023 at 3:26 AM
Powertripping on fellow PhD students is...wow, just...wow 😐
December 30, 2023 at 4:47 AM
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best way to counter academia-based #silentbullying is to silently produce and produce excellently. no fuzz, no noise, just pure quality work plus real, fun engagement w/ communities. #NOtobullying particularly of women, carers and ECRs in academia and elsewhere @academic-chatter.bsky.social
December 6, 2023 at 4:08 AM
My main takeaway from the keynote of Prof. Kyung Moon Hwang on "The Challenges and Rewards of Korean History". KSAA-AKS International Korean Studies Conference @ Australian National University
December 6, 2023 at 12:33 AM
Today's conference networking task reminded me that I'm really about quality more than quantity. I'm okay with the few people who I approached with sincerity and who mirrored back the same thing 👌💕

Please universe, give me a sign that this is okay hahaha
December 5, 2023 at 11:47 AM
At the tail end of a seminar on approaching the PhD research project as project management. I'm liking how it validates most of the stuff I already use and do 👌🗓👩‍💻
November 26, 2023 at 3:52 AM
The library here does not have much materials on Asia...Southeast, East...nothing much. Which explains a lot 🤷‍♀️
November 18, 2023 at 2:35 AM
100 percent agree!!! 👌👂
November 15, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Did my Milestone 1 presentation today. Hoping to be an official PhD candidate soon 🙏😅🫶
November 7, 2023 at 5:04 AM
Last, last weekend's sighting of jacaranda trees in Perth's Hyde Park as my mental health break 🟣🇦🇺😌

We need mental health breaks, yes ✌️
November 6, 2023 at 2:06 AM
I peer reviewed for a journal in 2022. I was told that I will get a certificate. I thought, okay, at least I'll have proof of my service. Fast forward to 2023 - still no certificate in my inbox 🤣
November 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM
Note to self
This week I’m offering 8 steps to help you structure your journal article around the So What and Now What patthomson.net/2023/10/23/w...
October 23, 2023 at 11:08 PM
I haven't lost control of my PhD project yet
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Is what I'd like to think 😅
October 23, 2023 at 2:36 PM
This kind of update inspires and influences me to get moving, too 🥹
2/3rds of the way through the edit of October's #Barbie       essay. Currently sitting at 7,019 words. On track to be published on the blog Sunday afternoon, 10/8. Stay tuned.
October 8, 2023 at 3:03 AM
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Social science has a responsibility to give the public better causal explanations of social phenomena, to dispel the self-serving bullshit stories told by institutions of power — an important essay here by Julian Go in the British Journal of Sociology:
Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation
This short essay contends that sociology should devote attention to causal explanation in order to expose lies. It argues that lies about causes are common in society and social science is in a uniqu....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2023 at 11:45 AM
I have miles to go before I get recognized as a Southeast Asian Koreanist (SEA). Just saw the abstracts of papers that got accepted in a conference where our SEA panel got rejected. There were papers on SEA and Indo-Pacific yes, but..written by either Koreans or Westerners. I rage with a smile 😐
October 4, 2023 at 4:37 AM