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Exploring current gender, cultural, social issues through the feminist and environmental lens. Instagram .the.scholar

24/09/2026

Repost: Happy to share with you that 🇯🇵 Hemingway Studies in Japan 🇯🇵, edited by Kaori Fairbanks, Hideo Tsuji, etc., published by Florida State Open Publishing, is OUT since July 2026! 🌼✨
And I just received it today at my office 📮 (been away for summer break)!!!

The collection is open-access and also print on-demand! I am deeply proud and honored to be one of the contributors in this collection, alongside Ai Ogasawara, 戸田慧Toda Kei, Hideo Kurabayashi and other amazing scholars.

Echoing Kaori’s word that this is not the end but a beginning, I believe that we will have more English publications coming out in the future🥂💛!!

14/09/2026

Finished David Howes’s Sensorial Investigations (2023) during my research trip to Spain in summer 2026! Took a lot of notes on my notebook 📔 and sharing a few with you here :)
Also attended the ESSE conference at the University of Santiago de Compostela in September, and visited Salamanca and fell in love with its centuries old bibliography (library) building!
Bought Lord of the Flies to read on the way back - already on Chapter 2 and am getting excited about what comes next! Also took a free Spanish-English grammar book on the street in Vigo to learn some Spanish!
In short, no books no life 📚!

12/08/2026

Feeling lucky🍀 to be able to see this “Giga” exhibition by 森靖 at PARCEL today! The craftsmanship is spectacular and authentic. I love the uncanny facial expressions, especially the eyeballs of those female features. He also maintains the original textures and curves of the woods, which highlight an earth-grounded aesthetics of tactile! Love it!!!! 🥰

Concept behinds this exhibition: Mori’s “giga” takes its title from the units we use to measure digital data (megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte), arguing that as these units keep escalating, our bodily sense of “vastness” has quietly disappeared: “giga” is now just a routine spec, not something that feels immense. He connects this numbing of scale to a parallel crisis in beauty: in an age of infinite digital replication and multiplying forms, there’s no longer a single standard of beauty, so Mori revisits fundamental questions: what beauty is, whom it serves, how it’s shown.

His response is to restore scale as physical, felt experience rather than abstract measurement. Continuing the “Gigantization Manifesto” he issued in 2024, the exhibition unveils his largest carved-wood sculpture yet, built from over twenty pieces of centuries-old woods to make “bigness” something can be traced by our bodies, not just numbers!

01/08/2026

Had a 💚 pottery workshop 💚 in May 2026 in Kyoto and our work have finally arrived! .baila micola0w0

30/07/2026

Canada conference trip 2026 was productive and lot of fun! Presented Hemingway, Ecology and Culture (2025) and a chapter on smell in Hemingway’s work in Hemingway and Posthumanism (2025), reunited and met with Hemingway scholars and did a cookout again with the gals, celebrated our success in publishing Hemingway Studies in Japan (2026), followed with various inspiring museum trips and film-watching at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, thanks to my love. Finally, had a delightful conversation with Prof. David Howes at Concordia University and received a book from him! Also took a photo with the director of the horror film named “ju-on”! Life is full of vitalism and creative energy when you know how to find and cultivate it!

16/07/2026

Finally I digitalized my drawings and made 💌 postcards out of them! 🌊 Am I slowly becoming a Hemingway artist? 👩‍🎨💚

01/07/2026

Visited Ron Mueck’s (Australia born, UK based) exhibition yesterday and was blown by his ultra-detailed, big-scaled sculptures by him. Each work took few years to complete. The last work, composed by hundreds of human skulls, represents a critique to human genocide and wars. The skins (with hairs and veins) of those human figures are so realistic that it becomes surreal. The first photo, I still remember its description (“while his wings are majestic and impressive, he has no religious mission to attend or carry out”) and hence, that face, posture, and body size. I like the irony.

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28/06/2026

Went to Simon Landrein’s exhibition in Tokyo today!
It’s my first time seeing his artwork and I love his sense of humor and minimalist aesthetics embedded in his illustrations! 2D art 💯 is still the best!

Simon is a french illustrator and animator. His bold, minimalist and irreverent work has been featured in many editorial productions such as the NY Times, the New Yorker, Wired and he sometimes translates his illustrations into hot and absurd animations. (citation: Vimeo)

20/06/2026

I bring Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity into conversation with the work of a Japanese wood sculptor/artist, Yosh*toshi Kanemaki’s work, to show the ambiguity of gender, whereby repetition creates the illusion of an original masculinity or femininity, and that the discourse of gender cannot be separated from s*x.

07/06/2026

Am reading Hemingway and Posthumanism (Edinburgh UP, 2025) and there’s so much to learn from all the other analyses! So proud to be part of this book, which gather both experienced and emerging voices on rereading Hemingway from the posthumanist ecocritical lens!

Here’s a summary of my chapter in the book:
In "Just smell them. Aren't they lovely?: Olfaction and Trans-Species Imagination in Ernest Hemingway's Works,"Lay Sion Ng investigates the under-explored sensory reality of scent. She underscores that smell is inherently trans-corporeal and notably powerful, functioning to anchor experiences of eating, memory, and the environment more generally.
Exploring the operation of olfaction in novels The Garden of Eden and The Old Man and the Sea, Ng shows how smell bridges seeming human/ nonhuman divides and yields a distinct sense of human selfhood in relation to others. The sense of smell was important to Hemingway personally and artistically, and criticism centered upon it is welcome and overdue, opening new possibilities for rethinking embodiment and self-other relations. (Hediger 16-17)

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