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Law, Lust, and Laughs: A Queer Diaspora Riot - Select Chapters
by Jiao Li
Welcome to Law, Lust, and Laughs: A Queer Diaspora Riot – Select Chapters, where the messiest bits of memoir meet the sharpest edge of identity.Join Chinese Australian writer Jiao Li—legally admitted, emotionally chaotic—as he reads select chapters from his genre-defying debut memoir. Expect courtroom confessions, erotic disasters, diasporic rage, and footnotes that bite back.Some chapters will make you laugh out loud. Others will make you pause, wince, or cry quietly in a gay bar toilet. All of them are read by the author himself, with the same unfiltered voice that critics have called “a
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CHAPTER 2A: ROAST OF THE OLD WORLD – EUROCENTRISM, ORIENTALISM, AND POLYGLOTS
In this fiery episode, Jiao Li reads Chapter 2A: Roast of the Old World—an unapologetic takedown of Eurocentrism, fake multilingualism, Orientalist microaggressions, and the European Union’s gated multicultural fantasy.If you’ve ever said “I speak French, German, and Italian” like it’s a cultural flex—you might want to brace yourself.Part comedy, part critique, and entirely personal, this chapter asks: What does it mean to be diasporic in a world that keeps rewarding the colonisers for knowing their neighbours’ languages?
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Welcome to Law, Lust, and Laughs: A Queer Diaspora Riot – Select Chapters, where the messiest bits of memoir meet the sharpest edge of identity.Join Chinese Australian writer Jiao Li—legally admitted, emotionally chaotic—as he reads select chapters from his genre-defying debut memoir. Expect courtroom confessions, erotic disasters, diasporic rage, and footnotes that bite back.Some chapters will make you laugh out loud. Others will make you pause, wince, or cry quietly in a gay bar toilet. All of them are read by the author himself, with the same unfiltered voice that critics have called “a
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