Trần Văn Dĩnh’s BLUE DRAGON, WHITE TIGER (Kaya Press) is on our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth! This new edition of Trần’s book—the first Vietnamese American novel published in the United States, now reprinted—features an afterword by Sydney Van To. kaya.com/books/blue-d...

Omg this makes me sick

Boots Riley’s zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

Soon Jones’s THESE AREN’T MY WOODS ANYMORE is on our #APAHeritageMonth reading list! Published by @poetose.bsky.social, this debut poetry collection “captures the experience of living as a mixed-race, queer, Asian American from the rural South.” www.poetose.com/store/p16/th...

A 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy was found buried with a fragment of Homer’s work, perhaps as a passport to the afterlife.

I’ve been saying it for years!!!!!

We’re listening to @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth playlist this weekend! Find poems and audio recordings by Sean Cho A., Courtney Alyce, Shlagha Borah, Vasvi Kejriwal, and more here: shopoetryjournal.com/aapi2026/

In EACH CRUMBLING HOUSE, Melody S. Gee “asks about inheriting a language that isn’t hers and a culture that died during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” Poetry from @perugiapress.bsky.social & our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: perugiapress.org/product/each...

Turns out, schools are way cheaper than ballrooms...

Just hours into his second term, President Trump suspended entry for all refugees and halted decisions on refugee applications. More than 100,000 people had been conditionally approved for resettlement; many had been waiting for years. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/E4yB8w

Omfg please

Rough draft: “I was also learning what sparked my imagination — and deserved critical questions. I had to learn to use Google as a tool of exploration and excavation.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montagn...

Nina. Newport Jazz Festival, July 4, 1968. David Redfern.

NEW: Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages New accounts from 17 men, women and children who have filed formal claims after being detained in a late-night raid paint a violent and terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ actions.

Literature is the least-supported artistic discipline in the U.S., receiving only 1.9% of the $5 billion in arts grants from foundations. This underfunding, which is persistent, underscores the urgent need for increased support for the nonprofit literary arts field. #LiteraryArts

I am BEGGING reporters: Couldn't just ONE of you come to those Mike Johnson press briefings with an iPad LOADED with trump's latest idiotic statements, so he can stop saying "I haven't heard/seen it?"? How hard would that be? JFC.

Me han traído una caracola. Dentro le canta un mar de mapa. Mi corazón se llena de agua con pececillos de sombra y plata. Me han traído una caracola. —Lorca 📸 "¡Ay de mi!" por Gloria Vilches

So Mamdani balanced NYC’s $5bill+ deficit without slashing services or raising taxes on working New Yorkers and he did it in *checks watch* 3 months. Maybe we should have some more socialists in charge that believe gov can work for the people instead of capitalists who are looking to exploit them. 🤷‍♂️

This excellent analysis lays bare that they realize they're wildly unpopular (popular agendas can achieve success through democratic means). And of course the more of this they do the more unpopular they become, so it's a treadmill and feedback loop.

“We need a new social contract for the age of AI. The current arrangement — the commodification & extraction of our lived experience into data analytics that are sold to manipulate human behavior — should not be legal.” —Otto Scharmer #ai #humanai

11pm, November 5, 2024 They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.

just updated @diacritics-dvan.bsky.social's books to review list! am i missing anything? want to review something? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

hello, why do we even do this anymore?