I appreciated this take on One Battle After Another from @ellenejones.bsky.social, one of the few voices to treat the film critically—and delve into its racial subtext. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

In time for the BFI season on Anna May Wong, I spoke with her biographer @kayteesal.bsky.social about her key style moments, for The Face Magazine: theface.com/culture/the-...

On Anna May Wong for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

It was nice little treat to read this review of my book from @pamhutch.bsky.social in @silentlondon.bsky.social: silentlondon.co.uk/2025/08/20/s...

To celebrate the UK paperback release of Not Your China Doll, my biography of film star Anna May Wong, I’m giving away two copies! Here’s how to enter: 1) Subscribe to my newsletter Half-Caste Woman: halfcastewoman.substack.com 2) Comment on my most recent post by Friday, Sept. 5: bit.ly/464TtuU

I’m giddy with excitement for the British Film Institute’s monthlong season of Anna May Wong films this September! To celebrate the film festival, I talked with Dr. Xin Peng about programming the season’s selections and what moviegoers can expect: halfcastewoman.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

"She says each tent had eight large cages, which hold 35 to 38 inmates, which means each tent holds close to 300 detainees." ...Like “an oversized kennel.”

Which is more interesting: AI writing that mimics human writing Human writing that mimics AI writing Neither Or: In five years, there will be no difference between the two.

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Thanks for having me on the podcast @infinite-women.com!

I pass by this building almost every day on my nightly walks and wonder who is going to pay the nearly $5M price tag so that they can be observed in a fishbowl by the entire neighborhood. And with no closets! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/r...

Join me and writers @aimeeliu.bsky.social and Darien Gee today at 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET for our LIVE event on Substack - UNFILTERED: Life as a Published Author - where we’ll discuss all the messy, behind-the-scenes realities that go along with publishing a book. substack.com/@dariengee/n...

RED CAR is a fantastic book and a real treat for Anna May Wong fans, myself included!

The state of reading in 2025, from a Q train rerouted on the R line from Chinatown to Downtown Brooklyn: two women bonding over a book they both just started reading — @tonytula.com’s REJECTION. Then commiserating how you can’t start up conversations with people reading on devices. 📖✨👀

A new post by @kayteesal.bsky.social on Anna May Wong's savvy self-promotion. camillelebromley.substack.com/p/the-chines...

The state of reading in 2025, a report from an Acela headed from NYC to Boston: A woman has a paperback novel splayed open on the table with one hand, while scrolling TikTok on her phone in the other.

Me watching The Last of Us last night. But honestly, could be applied to anything that has happened in America in the last 90 days.

Scanning the program for the Association of Asian American Studies conference next week in Boston. One clear trend: academics in AAS really love using "re-orienting" in their panel titles. Guess no one is immune from a bad pun, not even scholars.

Just added my name to this letter. So much of my work is informed by the books I'm able to check out from NYPL and BPL. I honestly don't know what I'd do without public libraries. www.nypl.org/speakout?utm...

Take a break from the dumpster fire/apocalypse/end of democracy and read a zine...? My friend Camille produced this beautifully designed, “whip-smart little zine” called Know-It-All. I contributed a piece on the thing I know the most about—what else but Anna May Wong. substack.com/home/post/p-...

“White Supremacist Hopeful Becomes Target of His Own Hate.” That's all you really need to know about Chisa Hutchinson's brilliant play AMERIKIN. My review for Observer: observer.com/2025/03/revi...

Amused that this guy thinks the title of my book — NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL — is “horribly devisive.” But why is it divisive . . . Because you realized Anna May Wong is not your personal China doll? Nor is any Asian woman?

Tried to attend an information session on National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships today. Silly me.

When are we marching? I’m ready.

Census.gov has been totally wiped. Information I was looking at just days ago about demographics from the 2020 Census has disappeared.

My latest for Observer, a review of Khawla Ibraheem’s searing one-woman play “A Knock on the Roof” observer.com/2025/01/revi...

I feel good about how I spent Jan. 20: watching an anti-Nazi themed marathon of Indiana Jones films & catching up with a good friend. Little kid @kehuyquan.bsky.social can brighten any day.

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us

I have family and friends who are affected by the fires and may have to evacuate. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Years ago I tried to explain to a college friend how the Santa Ana winds spark fires. He didn’t believe me, a SoCal native, arguing that air couldn’t spontaneously combust. I sent him Joan Didion’s essay “The Santa Ana.” Then he got it. www.tumblr.com/bobbyhundred...

"It’s another [thing] entirely to understand in practical terms how the absence of female perspectives affects the way #history is told, to recognize the threads that go unexplored or are never thought of in the first place," @kayteesal.bsky.social. lithub.com/history-skew... #womenshistory

Jan 16 @ 6pm: The Chinese American Museum is hosting a screening of "The Toll of the Sea" (1922) featuring Anna May Wong. Anna Wong (niece of #AnnaMayWong) & @kayteesal.bsky.social will participate in a post-screening discussion. camla.org/upcoming-eve... #silentfilms #HollywoodHistory #filmhistory

Today is the 120th birthday of actress Anna May Wong, born in #LosAngeles on January 3, 1905. A map of Anna May Wong's Los Angeles, courtesy of the Chinese American film star's biographer @kayteesal.bsky.social -> www.notyourchinadoll.com/amw-map-key #AnnaMayWong #HollywoodHistory

Today Anna May Wong turns 120. Here’s looking at you, kid! Photograph by Nikolas Muray for Condé Nast, circa 1937, courtesy of Anna Wong’s personal collection.

This year PAVEMENT BUTTERFLY 🦋 (1929), one of Anna May Wong’s best performances and her last silent film, enters the public domain. Screen a beautifully restored version of it on YouTube here: youtu.be/mAZNJmcS09U?...

Another thing to be outraged about. Another Asian woman silenced and written out of popular history. Thanks to @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social for digging this up! open.substack.com/pub/merrillm...

Nice to see my favorite screening experience of 2024 make it into Metrograph’s best of list metrograph.com/metrograph-b...

Yunte Huang, a man who made up stuff in his biography of Anna May Wong, is being platformed by Biographers International at their upcoming Bio Lab in January. The news is disappointing but not surprising. A thread. (1/10)

This Pyschology Today article on mixed race Asians has not aged well 🫢 www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/...

We love to see it! 😍 Thanks @yvonneliuwriter.bsky.social for spotting #NotYourChinaDoll out in the wild!

Hello Bluesky! Allow me to introduce myself: I’m a writer and photographer interested in culture and race, telling stories primarily about the Asian American/mixed race/female experience. www.katiegeesalisbury.com