Celebrating another good week in the books!

¡Wow! What a lovely first review for Dique Dominican! “A brutally raw, poignant, and literary coming-of-age memoir.” -Kirkus 😍 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

“how sometimes the camera pauses while a family counts itself, and all of them are alive.” From Mary Oliver’s “Every Morning” thx for sharing @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/every-morn...

poetry prompt of the week: tell me about something a computer could never understand or replicate. tell me about something disgustingly human.

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

omfg other korean LG energy solutions workers in tennessee are preemptively leaving apple.news/ADhXzmk7nTJm...

hey if you're going to @navsa2025.bsky.social & want to split a room with somebody to help keep costs down, the wonderful Kate Oestreich has built a crowdsourced roomshare page, which is available below and at the website: navsa.georgetown.edu

A student was presenting on Jane Eyre, beauty, and ended with some book covers. She shared this one. I had to see it, so you should to 😂😮

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a target of the Trump administration, advances in preliminary election in bid for second term.

Tomorrow, celebrated writer Lauren Groff will be giving the annual college lecture at the University of Toledo! 9/9 at 7pm in University Hall with free parking. Hope to see you there! facebook.com/events/s/202...

As a Toledoan, I’m excited to watch this show about a struggling newspaper (ahem) set in the Glass City!

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

We’ve had so many great conversations, proposals, and ideas come to us already— we love learning what cutting edge ECRs are up to and need in the field, and we love the creative ideas we’ve been fielding from already established authors. @jennifercnash.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Job in Disability Studies!

i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.

This cluster of essays emerged from one of the most special panels I've ever been on at my home conference. Thank you Mona and @zugenia.bsky.social for giving me this space to write about, for the first time, my identity as a Hong Kong-born scholar of the eighteenth century.

In these times, more motivated than ever to get back in the classroom. Teaching Asian American lit, Victorian lit, stepping in as Director of Grad Studies, and going up for early tenure. Big year ahead—let’s go! ✨📚🔥

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

Happy Gwangbokjeol, or “The Day that Light Returned” for Korea after 35 years of Japanese occupation 🙏🏼

“There is nothing more terrible than waiting for the terrible. I promise. Was the grief worth the poem? No, but you don’t interrogate a weed for what it does with wreckage.” “Half-Life in Exile” by Hala Alyan www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Both my books are available for pre-order now! 📚🎗️💚 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/beyond... (All royalties will be donated to Sewol non-profits.) press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po... (All royalties will be donated to non-profits focused on animal rights, environmental issues, or human rights.)

August is 🌻 season in our garden 🪴 🙏🏼

Next on my reading list! Working with an honors student on trans structures of feeling in Frankenstein and he requested we read this 💎 by @hilmalatino.bsky.social! 👏🏼

On my syllabi! ⬇️

It's officially release day for WHAT'S LEFT IS TENDER, a book that I truly didn't think I had it in me to write: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...

“I loved my father. But behind the canopy of love is a trunk of hate, the bark and crack of pain, anger, and violence that love often conceals in its shadow. I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.”

This week I’m syllabusing my Asian American Archives course and trying to write a C19 paper proposal, but they’re making it really hard. 🙈😭

Reading dd’s Umbrella by Hwang Jungeun, a 2‑novella work about a nonbinary gig worker in Seoul mourning the sudden loss of their lover & a writer reflecting on queer lives & solidarity after the Sewol ferry disaster. Translated from Korean by E. Yaewon, the brilliant translator of Han Kang. (1/2)

“Some days, I lay in the morgue of darkness, hyper-alone, and the sunlight, so audacious, paints the color back onto my cheeks.” @taylorbyas.bsky.social 🙏🏼✨ poets.org/poem/i-begin...

Resting Bitch Face comes out in just a FEW months with an August 26th release (and don't forget, it's a September pick for Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club)! Want me to come read in your city, talk to your students, perform at your school/venue, chat about my work? Email me!!

My little one, always basketball 🏀 dreaming 💫

“What is a feminist theory of exhaustion?…We are exhausted from feminism but decidedly not taking a ‘break’ from its demands. We are doing it tired.” Incredible essay by Jennifer C. Nash & Samantha Pinto in @differences.bsky.social. Free to read: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

“When at last the guns were silent,-in the graves where children lay. The crying passed away, & the dead had stopped their weeping. Little children sleeping while the night turned into day.” -Howard Fast’s “Korean Lullaby” 1950, at the start of the Korean War. All too resonant with Gaza’s children.

I've written a new post about "ChatGPT psychosis". Includes a detailed timeline of events leading up to the latest incident with Geoff Lewis. minihf.com/posts/2025-0...

Lines that struck me in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Exilée and Temps Morts 🖤

“For all its claims to superior virtue, the liberal American intelligentsia manifests very little of the courage and dignity it has expected from artists and thinkers in less fortunate societies.” —Pankaj Mishra

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

Revising some poems. 🎶 🇰🇷

“One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.” —Fanny Howe

I’m co-organizing this proposed panel, “The Latinx-Asian Commons,” for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference with @ayendy.bsky.social! Please consider submitting, and please share widely! Due 8/1

Mi gente! The expanded edition of Dique Dominican—with a new introduction and conclusion chapters—has a cover! Pre-Orders will be available July 15, 2025! @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

Cool job posting for Assistant Director at Tulane’s new Global Humanities Center! ✨ jobs.tulane.edu/position/IRC...

“For us, everybody had somebody they—“Before the DMZ” by Cindy Juyoung Ok

I’ve been preparing for my upcoming How to Write an Essay Collection seminar class, and I’m honestly excited for this Sunday. The class meets in two sessions, is recorded if you’re unable to attend at the time for some reason, and has ASL interpreters. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

“The use of ‘ch*nky eye’ like it’s a neutral descriptor shows how deeply anti-Asian racism has been normalized ― especially when it’s disguised as flattery,” said professor @joeykim.bsky.social.

Wrote about the "Love Island" Cierra exit drama, how weird it is that people don't realize "ch*nk" is a slur, and why that might be www.huffpost.com/entry/love-i...

"Border Body", a poem by Joey S. Kim | http://www.versedaily.org/2022/borderbody.shtml @joeykim via @versedailypoems and @DiodeEditions HT @jpdancingbear