Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a queer, mixed-race writer, academic, and activist living between Berkeley, California, and Tokyo, Japan. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. In her writing and activism, she thinks broadly about queer alternatives to institutionalized forms of belonging.
Transnationalism and migration are often treated as tragic subjects, but not by ruby onyinyechi amanze. Her art playfully embraces the impermanence of belonging to one place.
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