Six Poems by Mu Cao

Mu Cao 墓草 (b.1974, Henan, China) is a contemporary Chinese poet of working-class background. His poems explore queer desire and working-class life on the fringe of Chinese society.

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This issue offers a new perspective on indigeneity and encourage us to consider the ways in which settler colonialism continues to play a major role in extractive capitalist projects, land dispossession, and political domination in “Asia.”

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