Born and raised in Yangon, Myanmar, www.machinthe.com
is an anthropologist, writer, and community organizer currently based in the US. She is researching for her doctoral dissertation on the intersections of Myanmar social media activism and the neoliberalisation of activist-influencer industry. Her short stories and poetry in Burmese under the pen name of မခြင်္သေ့ (Ma Chinthe) have appeared in Aruna Global South Blog and Jakarta Biennale. Her intellectual writings in Burmese can be found at Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring
A new collection of poems and essays bears witness to the bravery of ordinary citizens since the brutal military coupe of Feb 2021 in Myanmar.
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