May 2013
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My Fervent Desire
Gerard: no, can you really name a Mexican maid on a TV show who does not have the name Conseula?
RuPaul’s Drag race, Awkward, Family Guy
me: ha so racist
“all mexican maids are named consuela”
Gerard: It’s like.
me: new pinboard!
Gerard: lol i created two new ones
i haven’t put pins on it
me: seriously, find all the consuelas
ugh remember...
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April 2013
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Does the Media Focus Only On White Survivors When... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
wagatwe:
As institutional coverups of campus rape become a mainstream issue, there is a lack of diversity in the survivors the media features. What do we miss by seeing just one type of survivor?
My latest at PolicyMic
Finally broke through my writers block to talk about an issue near and dear to me: diversity in the portrayal of survivors in the media. There is...
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feist covers leonard cohen for take this waltz...
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In the week after the bombing I was scared and hoped they would do whatever it took to catch the people who did it.
When Framingham police, transit special forces with automatics and the fire department descended on our train on Wednesday I remember benign baffled by the display. I blamed it at the time on the man making fake threats. The conductor said, “sorry folks, but this is he world we...
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I’LL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY
March 2013
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New Articles: Asian Americana
For Sampan, covering Boston Chinatown and the New England Chinese community at large:
Quincy Lunar New Year celebrates Year of the Snake
‘Spoonful of Ginger’ raises awareness for Asian Diabetes
Photographer documents Chinese-American contribution
The last article was the one I connected with the most. Corky Lee roams around the country taking pictures of every Asian cultural...
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Try again
To write about how great and good Enlightened is without sounding so maudlin. And without pitting it against Girls, though I still want nothing to do with those characters.
How about I talk around it? Today, my coworker came up to me and asked if it was true, had I liked Enlightened’s facebook page? And then he told me that if I didn’t know about it before, to listen to Mike...
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Procrastination
the key to writing
February 2013
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The two times I've commented on the AV Club
1. To proclaim that that sex scene in Observe and Report is rape
2. To defend Beyoncé, indubitably
January 2013
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Discovered this while tooling around on Longreads.... →
The plot is short-story-perfect. I also like how the writer deals with the protagonist’s Chinese-Americanness (and let’s get real - that she gives her that ethnicity, because I could count on one hand the stories I’ve read with Asian American protagonists.)
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November 2012
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Finally! Some clips for 2012!
Good thing my China clips were technically done a year ago, because my time there seems like so much longer ago than that. Though not for lack of trying, I didn’t publish anything anywhere else when I was in France, so I’m even more thankful to have been able to be productive when I moved back home, and for it to all have paid off!
Without further ado:
Westborough Congregational...
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APRES MAI: APRES MAI - Bande originale du film →
apresmai:
01 Terrapin - Syd Barrett 02 Green Onions - Booker T & The MG’s 03 Strings in the Earth and Air - Dr Strangely Strange 04 Two Dances: Almaine / Bransle for my Lady’s Delight - Amazing Blondel 05 Know - Nick Drake 06 Air - Incredible String Band 07 Sunrise of the Third System - Tangerine…
i love that i’m followed by the tumblr for...
October 2012
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Just wanted to let you know that this blog is...
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Interview with Wu Qing, founder of the Beijing...
This article was originally printed in Agenda’s social enterprise issue (July 14-27, 2011).
As a former English professor, a local politician, and as the founder and head of a training center for rural women, Wu Qing has spent over 50 years trying to improve China’s political system and society, namely through women’s empowerment. Phoenix Tso met with her to learn how she uses her position...
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September 2012
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August 2012
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July 2012
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Hey Teebs: The Day Amy Died →
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There is as much me or you as a spoon- ful of water or the constellation of sailor tattoos slowly being wheeled from her home under a deep red sheet. The internet is unable to contain itself. Newsfeeds scroll like the grey and blue banded clouds ticking rain like thin linens across the…
First Billie & Frank, now Amy and this guy…
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The Chinese in America
I’m reading this great book by The Rape of Nanking writer Iris Chang, a comprehensive history of Chinese immigration to the United States, with a compare and contrast between their experience in Qing/Republican/Communist China and life in their new homeland. Among others, I’ve learned some tidbits like these:
- Chang and Eng Bunker were two of the first Chinese people to come to the...
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Here are 9 publications that I'm pitching to...
…as an aspiring travel writer.
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The Awl
Created by two former Gawker editors, the Awl publishes well-reasoned and researched original content (essays, poetry, illustrations, and video) on every topic imaginable in a distinctly snarky tone. Travel writing published here range from city guides to places like Portland, ME to reports on China’s drinking culture. Bonus if your submission...
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May 2012
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Why I hate Arles
Because:
I was stuck with yelling, crying children on the train there and back
A guy stopped to help me find the tourist office, then sort of followed me, telling me I was beautiful in English and…Italian?
By the train station, another guy stopped in his car to blow me a kiss. A kiss that sounded like a cross between a fart and somebody pulling a plunger out of a toilet
I...
Ethnocentric observation #1
universallypopularandwellliked:
Krakow is the Brooklyn of Poland.
BAM!
April 2012
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Not gonna rest until I can write a New Yorker... →
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