This book was amazing and a near-unanimous decision in picking it as this year’s Walden award winner 😍😍 Congrats @joshgalarza.bsky.social and thank you for writing such a beautiful book.

Proud to have chaired this committee and picking such amazing books. Stay tuned for the winner on Monday! #booksky #ALANreads

#AERA25 and #AsiamAmAF folks, come out and see me at our book signing on Friday (I have a chapter)

Haven't been active lately, but wanted to shout out for this book launch, in which I have a chapter!

#raciolinguistics friends. Hear me rage (politely via academia) about how people mispronounce my name. Excited to be in this book edited by Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman. Come hear from some smart people.

Yay! Excited to be a part of this esteemed group and the National Book Award for Youth Literature with @davidbowles.us and others! www.instagram.com/p/DHGksh3Opx...

This is for @joannahowrites.bsky.social wearing my “not today, colonizer” shirt in the land of my former colonizers 😂😂

Tokyo street

In Tokyo for the marathon and love this LGBTQ inclusive sign I saw in the very large cosmetics section of a convenience/ drug store. Considering how East Asian is often portrayed as being more homophobic, this was nice to see.

My son is 15. One year younger than this child. My son is a 6’2” baby, not even close to an adult. My heart breaks for all involved in this. Two lives are now destroyed. When science repeatedly shows that kids’ brains are still developing into their 20s, how can we do this apple.news/A_b8YkCB4SB2...

Measles. It’s 2025 people. 🤦🏻‍♀️ apple.news/AW6Mzg4ufS9e...

Currently in a meeting

Trump/Elon say these programs harm AsAms, but I’ve been in convo with AsAm students working with other students of color to defend their campus programs and student centers. Don’t believe the fascist trolls in the White House!

I’ve been following this story and it’s been breaking my heart. They’re saying it’s not a hate crime because his attackers were part of the LGBTQ+ community?! There are hateful ppl in all communities www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

We shouldn’t expect the youth to save us, but maybe they will save themselves (and us along the way. We don’t deserve them.

#LITERACY folks. Talk to me about Stand for Children and Nell Duke's work with them and the Gates Foundation around literacy...is it hard core SOR or a little more balanced? I know Nell’s work is pretty balanced but wondering about it in context if Stand for Children…

Refreshing my IRB certification and came across this in one of the modules…I don’t even know what to think about this. Trump has even impacted how ethical research is being framed/discusses 🤦🏻‍♀️

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

I hate making phone calls (even for pizza) but this is what we do to resist mow.

Done!

Nice! Someone from my town signed up.

Since I’ve divested from Meta, you folks get to see my running photos that would have gone to IG 😂 5 miles of tempo in cold rain. @vaughnwmwatson.bsky.social it was 40 degrees, within your range right? 😂

It’s the year of the snake! My year!!

Ok ok! Pre-order is up for this beautiful book (Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars: Looking Inward to Move Forward). And yours truly has a chapter about my name called “Jung like jungle” 😂😂 www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

How is this our current reality? 😭😡 We truly are living in a dystopia. But we will keep fighting.

🤬🤬 “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Interesting how they’re always “defending” women. Yeah, no thanks. I don’t need you to defend me or speak for me. Cuz I’ve got some words for you. 🤬🤬🤬

This is not some disgruntled ex-employee speaking off the record. This is David Maraniss, a Pulitzer-winning reporter and author who’s now an associate editor at the Washington Post, where he’s been affiliated for more than 40 years.

Such a good question. I know my university has talked about resisting without legal requirement but not clear on anything past that …

First day of spring semester. Decided to be festive with my velvet jacket 🥰 Excuse me while I pet myself.

Support Tribal Colleges and Universities, HBCUs, support Housing and Health initiatives for underserved and underrepresented communities, donate to orgs with boots on the ground helping immigrants, 2SLGBTQIA, and women's health. We protect those most at risk.

Throwing sand in the gears of terrible machinery is also resisting.

Tried to outrun my fear of the future yesterday. All I got were ice eyelashes (it was 5 degrees). #chicagowinter

Decided to delete all my Meta apps and just hang here for now. I’m about to get so much more productive these days 😅😅 And possibly more mentally healthy …

RIP David Lunch 💔

✨PLEASE SHARE✨ It is live!!! There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸 Link: bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...

I don't often write for edited books, but somehow I have at least 3 that will be coming out in books this year. Slated for July 2025 from @sunypress.bsky.social with eds. Marilisa Jimenez & Sonia Rodriguez is a chapter about AsAm girl rep in APALA-winning YA books. Check out the cover!

I saw on X that someone created a google doc of displaced Black families from the fires and links to their gofundmes and even color-coded them to show which ones are in more dire need at this time. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

One thing Newsom should do *right now* is a statewide rent freeze. They did it during lockdown, they can do it again. And yes, statewide, because every landlord within 200 miles of LA is eagerly waiting for fire refugees to move into their area.

1/ I’m gonna say something possibly controversial. I find it frustrating celebrities are saying they’re “starting from nothing” or sharing their family member’s go fund me’s because of the LA fires. It’s ridiculous. You literally have millions in the bank.

I tested my Year of the Snake papercut design with my kid’s book club and it works great! I’m going to make the design available in my next newsletter, so if you’d like it make sure you are signed up: lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/kEmJMT3/n... Wishing us a lucky Year of the Snake this year! 🧧🐍

More ways in which our carceral “justice system” is so unjust.

Binge reading as a middle-aged person is harder than when I was a kid. Behind on my reading for an award committee and having trouble sustaining multiple days of reading in a row without feeling squirrelly. #gettingoldsucks

Ok how much did I love this book by @robinwasley.bsky.social 😍😍 Zombies. Magic. A little romance. And Asian American 🇰🇷identity stuff (along with adoption). Fantastic!! Hope to read more in the future 🤩

Imagine following Lakotaman and his spammy "like" if you love Natives when you could be following all these cool ass Natives doing amazing things in their communities and industries. Like legit embarrassing but it's not to late to turn things around. go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9

@mrschureads.bsky.social congratulations!!!! What an amazing thing and a beautiful book you’ve brought into the world. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

Nothing like a school board meeting that goes until midnight 😭😭😭😭😭 And @tiffanymjewell.bsky.social’s book sticker was on track for some of the things discussed #RacismInSchool

Love this. And I can’t help but think of these lines from NG. and I really hope no white person ever has cause to write about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

Just got my request to re-up for Chicago Abortion Fund. And of course I will.

That Daniel Penny and Daniel Perry and Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman are all walking around free in the most carceral nation in the world is something that demands a reckoning.