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Rodlyn-mae Banting

Rodlyn-mae Banting is a freelance journalist, cultural critic, and poet writing at the intersections of gender, race, and popular culture. They have bylines in Jezebel, Electric Literature, Tone Madison, Madison365, and elsewhere.

Rodlyn-mae's Latest Articles

The cover of Mandy Tu’s chapbook, "Monsoon Daughter," showing a drawing of a crocodile and flowers on a green background, is set next to a headshot of the author.
Grief is a kindness: A conversation with Mandy Tu on her debut chapbook, “Monsoon Daughter”
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Culture
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May 16, 2022

The poet and UW-Madison MFA student celebrates the book’s release at a May 28 virtual reading.

The university won’t love you back: The UW System’s pursuit of normalcy in the time of corona
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Politics
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October 25, 2021

What happens to a failing system when you assume that there is no need for alternatives?

Yellow skin, no masks: The politics and precarities of being Asian in a maskless Madison
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Politics
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June 2, 2021

Right now, in America and around the world, racism portrays the unmasked Asian face as a poisonous symbol.