tyrell haberkorn

@turtelista.bsky.social

Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)

Good banner was put up in Bangkok to note the visit of Min Aung Hliang. Appreciate so many Thai friends & allies taking action in one way or another, some attended protest, some issued statements, banner drop & more to oppose the visit by the murderous Junta leader.

Banner on overall in Bangkok reads:
Myanmar is bleeding 
No handshakes with a brutal dictator

My genuinely brilliant colleague in Southeast Asian studies, Dr. Erik Davis at Macalester College in St Paul, faces a federal indictment and a possible six-year prison sentence, for having "ties" to "antifa" (i.e. for organizing anti-ICE protests). www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’

Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives

theguardian.com

So so fucked up. We know that these people will be detained, potentially jailed for a long time (with all that entails in Myanmar), conscripted straight into the military, even if neither of those things happen... Myanmar isn't exactly safe. /sigh

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w ago

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

I am as always grateful to Tyrell for these translations of Get's letters from prison & the care put in, not just to the translation but the surrounding background & commentary. This letter on the origins, inbalances & flaws in Thailand’s "Democracy" is well worth a read. #FreeOurFriends

tyrell haberkorn@turtelista.bsky.social · last mo.

Get Sophon, a Thai political prisoner, asks, "When we try to speak out to demand fairness, they do not merely refuse to listen to us. They attempt to suppress and lock us up in the name of security. For whom is such security? At present, for whom do the government and state agencies work?"

Get Sophon, a Thai political prisoner, asks, "When we try to speak out to demand fairness, they do not merely refuse to listen to us. They attempt to suppress and lock us up in the name of security. For whom is such security? At present, for whom do the government and state agencies work?"

Get Sophon Suratitthamrong, Letter from Prison: Democratic Consciousness in Thailand - positions politics

On 24 June 1932, the People’s Party, a civilian-military coalition, fomented a transformation from absolute monarchy to a constitutional regime in Thailand. In the ninety-four years since then, there ...

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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Poster for my talk in Roi Et, Isaan, Thailand in one week. This is part of Roi Et Ratchabat University’s “global gender” talk series. The talk will be in Thai. Stop by if you’ll be in Isaan next week!

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ICE is quickly and repeatedly moving people from facility to facility with no warning, making it difficult for attorneys and loved ones to locate them. “Effectively, that person has just disappeared while in the custody of the U.S. government.” https://bit.ly/3SH7TOQ

ICE Detained Them, and Then They Vanished

Under Trump, the U.S. increasingly sends immigrants all over the nation with little warning, leaving families and attorneys unsure where they are.

bit.ly

It took a long time to process my trips to Syria & even longer to write about it. Over 14 years collecting Syrians' stories, I built a relationship to the country that was both intimate & vicarious. This essay shares new stories I heard when I visited & also my own. www.publicbooks.org/dear-syria/

“Dear Syria … ” - Public Books

“Here I was, crossing from Lebanon into Syria and from the realm of other peoples’ stories into that of lived experience, including my own.”

publicbooks.org

Historic Hong Kong student publication announces it has ceased operation due the inability to recruit members to its editorial board. "Undergrad" was founded in 1952 by the Hong Kong University Students' Union.

Screenshot of an Instagram post by undergrad.hkusu. It shows a black square with Chinese characters in white reading: Announcment of Cessation of Operation. The logo for "Undergrad is below.

Staying in Thailand for last highlight, @dissentmag.bsky.social re-publishes Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal's "I Shall Not Live in Fear" about his 12 year struggle against military conscription & much more, with a forward from @turtelista.bsky.social. Its worth a read if you didn't catch it 1st time 20/

I Shall Not Live in Fear - Dissent Magazine

After a twelve-year struggle against military conscription in Thailand, Buddhist conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal faces potential incarceration in July. The following is an essay he wro...

dissentmagazine.org

After a twelve-year struggle against military conscription in Thailand, Buddhist conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal faces potential incarceration in July. The following is an essay he wrote in anticipation of entering prison.

I Shall Not Live in Fear - Dissent Magazine

After a twelve-year struggle against military conscription in Thailand, Buddhist conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal faces potential incarceration in July. The following is an essay he wrote in anticipation of entering prison.

dissentmagazine.org