MT Vallarta (they) 🍉
@itsmelktea.bsky.social
poet and AsianAm lit critic; What You Refuse to Remember (Harbor Editions); Asst Prof in Ethnic Studies @ Cal Poly 🇵🇭🌈
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · 10mo ago@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth playlist features six poems by poets recently published in the journal, including Hannah Keziah Agustin, Karla Myn Khine, Akira Ritos, Elise Thi Tran, and MT Vallarta! Listen to it here: shopoetryjournal.com/filipino-ame...
I waited for the low-rise jean trend to end, and I can do it again.
Thank you for the shoutout, @clmporg.bsky.social! shopoetryjournal.com/apa-heritage... @arahko.bsky.social @sati-m.bsky.social @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social @eylieblue.bsky.social @itsmelktea.bsky.social @bunkong.bsky.social @theoceanisgay.bsky.social
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Roundup 2025 - Shō Poetry Journal
To celebrate Asian/Pacific heritage month, we’ve curated this selection of poems that give voice to Asian American experiences centered around inheritance, history, memory, and belonging. This roundup...
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · last yr.Spend some time with @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth playlist this weekend! You’ll find poems by Sati Mookherjee, Elise Thi Tran, Vannida S. Kol, Jessica Nirvana Ram, and more: shopoetryjournal.com/apa-heritage...
My new novel, THE DREAM HOTEL, is out in 2 weeks! It follows a woman whose dreams are used by an algorithm to predict that she will commit a crime. Releasing a book in the middle of all this [waves hand] isn't optimal, but I worked hard on it and I'd be grateful for your preorder! shorturl.at/if3CE
What makes some people heroes is what makes us criminals. It is almost simplistic to say we are guilty by birth. - Mohammed El-Kurd on the politics of appeal (From @haymarketbooks.org )
The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that engages with the ideas of mental health and mental wellness. Submit by end of day on 2/9, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks. Details at the link below: https://buff.ly/3SsM4QL #writingcommunity
This is terrifying and sad
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2y agoSalama Maarouf, the head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, says more than 12,000 bodies are estimated to be trapped under the rubble in the enclave, amid a lack of equipment to retrieve them due to Israeli restrictions. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/xr13pe
NEW: Several branches of the military are pausing sexual assault prevention training because of President Trump's executive order on DEI. My latest @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
Military freezes sexual assault prevention training after Trump executive order on DEI
The U.S. Marine Corps ordered all Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Training be put on "pause" in order to comply with one of President Trump's executive orders, according to an internal email re...
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In her upcoming book, "Unmaking Botany," Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez traces a history of botany in the Philippines during the last decades of Spanish rule and the first decades of US colonization. Read the intro for free our website now! #PostcolonialStudies #AsianStudies https://buff.ly/4hCKdD7
"Catastrophic": Trans Youth Lose Access to Care as Hospitals Capitulate to Trump Attacks
“Catastrophic”: Trans Youth Losing Access to Care
As President Trump continues to sign new executive orders attacking transgender people and their rights, we hear voices of protest from New York, where hundreds of people rallied Monday outside NYU Langone...
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President Trump’s declaration that the U.S. could “take over” the Gaza Strip and that its Palestinian population could be displaced was immediately criticized in the Middle East and beyond.
Trump’s Proposal to ‘Take Over’ Gaza Sparks Immediate Rebukes
President Trump’s suggestion was denounced in the Middle East, Washington and beyond.
nytimes.com
One day I am going to be that weird wrinkled professor who walks into a classroom and terrifies all their students. #oneday
www.erininthemorning.com/p/school-sys.... "On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed."
School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order
On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed.
erininthemorning.com
How did LAUSD decide schools near the L.A. fires were safe to reopen? A key factor was an "olfactory inspection." That's a fancy way of saying: sniff test. As in, a geologist took a whiff to see if it smelled like smoke. Are parents satisfied? Our story: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Schools opening near fire zones are safe, district officials say. Parents aren't so sure
In the race to reopen schools, parents are demanding proof that campuses near the Palisades and Eaton fires are safe. But who determines whether they are?
latimes.com
This is the biggest danger of Trump's EOs. They are not law, and yet Denver Health is complying in advance, ending all trans surgeries under 19 years of age, including chest masculinization - a rare, but much needed surgery for some trans teens. www.9news.com/article/news...
The ceasefire in Gaza is not a solution but a mirror held up to our collective failure. The root causes that led to October 7 and the subsequent genocide remain unchanged: decades of Israeli occupation, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid against Palestinians.
A Ceasefire Is Not Enough | Tariq Kenney-Shawa
The ceasefire is not a solution but a mirror. Decades of Israeli occupation, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid against Palestinians brought us here.
thebaffler.com
the brilliant @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong wrote this, also last summer, connecting the attacks on Gazans and pro-Palestine protesters to attacks on the disabled, the unhoused, and on public health writ large — centered around mask bans.
Mask Bans Are an Insult to Disabled People and Protesters Alike
The bans threaten disabled people and protesters alike.
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this project does crucial work in keeping our Palestinian friends connected. please support if you can. (also Alice is an incredible person and if you're not following her, you're missing out!)
Alice Wong@sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 2y ago🧧🐍🎊🏮 Happy #YearOfTheSnake! eSIMS are in more than ever. Help us raise money so people can stay connected. Update from @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social and me disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/01/29/c... #LunarNewYear
there's so much cute shit in Canadian dollars on this fundraiser auction for ESims for Gaza! www.32auctions.com/organization...
Funds for E-Sims for Gaza
Silent auction 'Funds for E-Sims for Gaza' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Now that there’s a ceasefire, I’ve seen a decrease of posts about Palestine. A reminder that 1) Isnotreal has violated ceasefires in the past & will continue to do so 2) Isnotreal’s occupation, colonization, and ethnic cleansing of Palestine is a structure, not a one-time event.
I can’t wait to get older and look like a witch.
![Social Skills Training
by Solmaz Sharif
Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/sharifpoem]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlmttkf54je7ie22kz7oymca/bafkreigd6yv4wvtxd2uwuzf27xbt62mpxep67ljta2edqmjeywqi7zfmhu)
![When ICE authorities in dark SUVs arrived in Chicago’s Little Village, a predominantly Hispanic enclave of around 70,000, to begin enacting President Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda, another operation began. The community launched its own counteraction: an urgent system of text chains, social-media groups and calls between local leaders. The response was nearly instantaneous.
“Videos are coming in, text messages, people are hitting the street following them throughout the neighborhood until they left,” said Alderman Michael Rodriguez. In the end, the officers made no arrests, Rodriguez said.
Federal officials say the Trump administration's efforts to ramp up arrests is running into a challenge in some places: a robust outreach effort by activists to methodically track ICE’s movements and educate migrants on what to do when immigration officials come to town. That includes not answering questions or letting anyone inside without a proper warrant. [Source: WSJ, via library]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pmct542tz3grqn6nrpm62hl3/bafkreihjnac7plcw4fjlutc2ryvjdwmzympjvxroyetqmvxrk6yjjqbekq)
