the great darkening has arrived. read my convo with Sam Bloch about his new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and let us all get shade-pilled 🚫🌴 lareviewofbooks.org/article/its-...

It’s Only Getting Hotter | Los Angeles Review of Books

Lisa Kwon talks with Sam Bloch about his new book “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.”

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new substack post on a little songbird, greenwashing the good things out of our lives, the police state pc: Jabz Gallo (a new friend and founding member of Save the Vireo justacity.substack.com/p/migratory-...

Migratory birds don't know borders the way we obsess over them

...así que todavía estamos dispuestos a seguir hasta la victoria

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this made me cry. rios i was not familiar with your game

new substack post about @ LA Scanner, who many of us relied on for realtime updates during our January wildfires. this is about "cop watchers" who deputize themselves as lone heroes i enjoyed writing this one. this is the kind of LA stuff ill keep posting justacity.substack.com/p/a-scanner-...

A Scanner Darkly

On LA Scanner, community surveillance, our January wildfires

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i made a substack to chip away at what LA is/isn't + share occasional cultural commentary. my first post is about the Hongdae Boys, made viral in April. Leave Hongdae Boys alone/i wish people would worry on understanding their own desires/ur being racist justacity.substack.com/p/to-all-the...

To All the Hongdae Boys I’ve Loved Before

A straight-coded post on desire plus an intro.

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doing my best

today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. I interviewed poet @cathylinhche.bsky.social about her new book of poetry reflecting on her parents’ work as extras on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and American myth-making of the war impulsemagazine.com/symposium/be...

“Becoming Ghost” with Cathy Linh Che — IMPULSE Magazine

Che’s latest collection of poems looks at the American myth-making that shaped public memory of the Vietnam War.

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I’m always interested in work that situates big-time sports in our larger culture. This seems pretty deft.

stop romanticizing palm trees@lisaskwon.bsky.social · 2y ago

pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...

things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻

LA Public Press@lapublicpress.bsky.social · last yr.

Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE “We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.”

things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻

LA Public Press@lapublicpress.bsky.social · last yr.

Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE “We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.”

After one of the WILDEST council exchanges in recent memory, with councilmembers accusing each other of making backroom deals (!!!), LA's Olympic wage passes 12-3, guaranteeing LA's tourism workers a minimum wage increase to $30/hour by 2028 My previous story: www.torched.la/the-olympic-...

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pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...

Astria Suparak On The Politics Of Sport

Astria Suparak speaks about how sports and the arts are not mutually exclusive sources of inquiry and criticism of our political and cultural spheres.

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it be two girls at happy hour going “i can’t cry, i intellectualize my grief”

when an editor says i came back with strong reporting + writing... im better than you

waist deep in pow!! surfs up in mammoth

i love being inaccessible

she’s writing about ktown again..a return to form 🤷🏻‍♀️ my essay on sickly housing concept art for cusper magazine open.substack.com/pub/cusperma...

On Housing Concept Art

By Lisa Kwon

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follow me if you cannot stand simu liu

i am struggling to find a home for a piece I’d like to write about the psychic damage Koreans have endured ten years after Seth Rogen’s The Interview came out. that film cycle needs a proper critical reappraisal but I don’t think people care to hear how much Obama is at fault for Korean relations!!!

i will not gatekeep but you will have to ask me where it’s from

in a first, cried while interviewing someone today. if you tenderly show me a picture of your late wife and tell me how much you miss her, bye 😭 Im a writer second, Aries first

you may be an LA cultural icon and creative shapeshifter but in the end we are all the same, made of flesh and bones, that a dog just wants to cuddle up on

im so thrilled that i reached out to hanif abdurraqib to talk (so tenderly!) about his wild sneaker collection because the world needs to know also, chris paul WOULD make a great poet youtu.be/bNyskgDYYRc?...

Hanif Abdurraqib | Flight Club: Friends & Family

YouTube video by Flight Club

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sorry to my friends mel, carol, jazz for blowing up the spot you used to grow up frequenting, but a legend is a legend read my latest on Pasadena's Top Restaurant (YES, THAT IS THE NAME) for Eater LA la.eater.com/2024/2/23/24...

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