Cher Tan

Cher Tan is an essayist and critic in Naarm/Melbourne, via Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore, where she was born and raised. Her essays, criticism and other written work have been published widely. She is the editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin. Her critically-acclaimed debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, is out with NewSouth Publishing.

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Works By Cher Tan

Turn Off Tune Out Drop Out Sell Out Buy In
Vernon Subutex follows a theme set in earlier books by Despentes: the status quo sucks, but we're all complicit in it one way or another, regardless of our political leanings, sometimes even in spite of them.
21 Apr. 2021
Abolish The Border
Lim paints a hard-nosed portrait of middle-aged, single and queer womanhood encircled by the long tail of patriarchy, bolstered by the senseless weaponisation of cultural traditions and the burden of expectation.
30 Nov. 2020
Good Migrant/Bad Migrant
In both Down The Hume and The Pillars, there are none of those happy endings that cheerfully bridge the challenges of multicultural existence. Characters from down-and-out circumstances don’t eventually triumph over their difficulties. Instead, by...
10 Sept. 2020
Uncanny Valleys
Tan’s worlds in Rubik and Smart Ovens act as alternate realities to our accelerationist, mishmash world: one in which there are seemingly no limits, yet unspoken social mores reign in the background.
28 June. 2020

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Cher Tan

Works By Cher Tan

Turn Off Tune Out Drop Out Sell Out Buy In

Abolish The Border

Good Migrant/Bad Migrant

Uncanny Valleys