My first cover! Cyanotype on fabric with gold paint and gold leaf 🥳😍 so special to do it for my queer Asian sib 💕💕

Alison Lubar@theoriginalison.bsky.social · last mo.

she’s out in the world! and thank you to @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social for the cover 🦋

I collected all my frustrations on the mixed Asian trope trotted out in four contemporary American television shows, and Resonate Voices generously published it! www.weareresonate.com/2026/07/mixe...

Just a Pretty Face: The Shallowness of the Asian/White Trope on TV

From Shrinking to Interior Chinatown, why is mixed Asian representation on TV still treated as hollow window dressing? Addie Tsai unpacks the mixed-race tropes.

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The latest review of my monograph, considered thoughtfully by Archer Porter at Dance Chronicle. Grateful to be given such generous attention in a space where I often feel like the odd man out! 🥹 Here's a little snippet from the conclusion:

Thanks to Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts for publishing "Namesake," one of the first poems I wrote when I started suddenly writing poems again shortly after moving to Virginia. gristjournal.com/2026/03/name...

Namesake - Grist

A biracial Asian artist and writer, Addie Tsai (any/all) teaches Creative Writing at William & Mary. They collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, amon...

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Apparently my monograph has gotten so much interest my publisher pushed the paperback release up six months! Pre-order link for is now available on the Bloomsbury website (pub date September 17)! www.bloomsbury.com/us/straight-...

Straight White Men Can’t Dance

Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture investigates a trope proliferating throughout popular American media over the l…

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I have turned off AI overview in chrome in every possible place but it keeps showing up, please help!

they are very shady

Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Spotify uses AI to create audiobooks of authors' work without their permission. This is wild to me. It's worse because it can cannibalize book and ebook sales. Blatant theft, on top of messing over musicians. Free link: archive.ph/2023.12.13-1...

Not sure what you’ve read already or what your taste is like, but I’d rec: - The Tensorate series by Neon Yang - unwieldy creatures by Addie Tsai - the spirit bares its teeth by Andrew Joseph White - The Raven tower by Ann Leckie - the water outlaws by SL huang - the woods all black by Lee Mandelo

Thanks to Underdog Bookstore for featuring my baby UNWIELDY CREATURES in this Frankie display with other much loved babes! @danielolivas.bsky.social @victorlavalle.bsky.social

Chuffed to get this first review!

Methuen Drama@methuendrama.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Smart, layered, and often quite funny in its observations about how white male identity has been staged, protected, and parodied over decades." @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social's 'Straight White Men Can’t Dance' reviewed on Lou Reviews Blog: https://bit.ly/47L7Wyh

OUT NOW Addie Tsai’s 'Straight White Men Can’t Dance' interrogates popular American media portrayals of white male movement, analysing how such representations reflect gender and race ideologies. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3HKDGJB

Losing my mind at this recent blurb of my new monograph, Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture from Thomas DeFrantz:

Please see me present on the Trump dance as part of Critical Humor Studies Association’s virtual symposium, “Humor and the Right.” I’m up first with Session 2 at 2:15 ET/11:15 PT Friday, November 14. QR code to register below which includes program, linked here: drive.google.com/file/d/17Hmj...

And @sarahlaudenbach.bsky.social’s picks! (3/4)

We're hiring, offering small stipends! Take a look here: www.justfemmeanddandy.com/join-the-tea...

join the team! — just femme & dandy

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Thanks for the Unwieldy Creatures shout out! 🥰

perpetualpages@perpetualpages.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🔔 NEW VIDEO! Excited about Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN? I have 12 ideas for books you can check out that re-tell (or are inspired by) the classic #Frankenstein tale! #BookTube 📷 youtu.be/fwtFBLAB9fU

“Every gesture, every word, involves our past, present, and future. The body never stops accumulating, and years and years have gone by mine without my being able to stop them, stop it.” (Trinh T Minh-Ha)

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Nicholas Perez@zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Book Haul. Finally found @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social 's book in the wilds.

Very happy for Unwieldy Creatures to be on this Frankie list!! theportalist.com/frankenstein...

The Best Frankenstein Books and Retellings

Whether you love the original 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley or a more contemporary take on the science fiction classic, this list of books has you covered.

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The last time I saw Jubi Arriola-Headley he bowed at my feet & showered me with love. We didn’t see each other often but we had such a tender connection. I was honored to publish his kilt essay at @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social. I’m not ready to accept he’s gone. A tremendous kind fierce spirit.

Did a little homage to Diane Keaton over at my fashion remakes IG (@ addiewearshistory)

The conference takes accessibility seriously. This means all our conferences are online and they are free to speakers. We offer accessibility training. We provide slides ahead of time with alt-text, encourage written copies of papers, provide a code of conduct and clear guidelines on the day 1/

Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social · 10mo ago

What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror... romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

Thanks to Justin Trinh of Soapberry Review for this thoughtful review of Unwieldy Creatures! They really got the book, and I really love Unwieldy Creatures being reviewed for an Asian American lit review journal. soapberryreview.com?p=5931&fbcli...

Please take a look at @anmlymag.bsky.social's newest issue! Very proud of being Fiction Co-Editor for Anomaly, so please take a look at the stories, and also read the rest of this incredible issue! anmly.org/ap41/?fbclid...

HTX: Come to my book talk for Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film & Popular Culture at @basketbooksandart.bsky.social, October 23, 7:30 PM. I'll be in conversation with @rachelafi.bsky.social, & we'll close the night with a dance party! www.basket-books.com/events/36641...

Film talk: Addie Tsai, author of Straight White Men Can't Dance | Basket Books & Art

Houston, Texas based independent bookstore, art gallery & gathering place, specializing in art books from near and far, small press fiction, poetry, theory and philosophy; host to art exhibitions, fil...

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this is how it feels to wear high rise pants

Delighted to be in @loverseyepress.bsky.social's David Lynch tribute! The folio includes my video collage On Lone, which explores my relationship to solitude since early 2020, when I found myself solitary due to divorce & COVID. www.loverseyepress.com/post/video-b...

Video by Addie Tsai

On LoneTsai_Addie_on loneAddie Tsai (any/all) is the author of Dear Twin (2019), included in American Library Association’s Rainbow List in 2021, Unwieldy Creatures (2022), a Shirley Jackson finalist ...

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Curious if academic folks have read any scholarly articles looking at race on tv you could link me? Looking for specific pieces you found illuminating. If it's Asian-focused, even better. I've been grumpy about a mixed Asian girl trope for long enough & I finally just need to write about it! 😂😭

Show me your favorite author websites, please? Can also shout out your own! Looking for minimalist, clean look 👀

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The Bride! | Official Teaser

YouTube video by Warner Bros.

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