Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

I was going to go to bed early, then I picked up my phone: a memoir

Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.

A bit of James Baldwin today: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

Most Americans don’t know that the U.S. violently colonized the Philippines in 1898, through 1946. An estimated 600k Filipinos were killed in the years after U.S. annexation, to crush resistance to colonial rule.

“You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back.”

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"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."

"artists’ lives ... are often lived queerly in relation to time — not always in terms of sexuality or gender, but in the refusal of normative clocks. We start late, shift mediums, pause for caregiving or parenting, recommit after detours. Our timelines are asynchronous, cyclical, out of sync."

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

Loved today’s talk at the San Francisco Public Library’s Filipino American Center! I have peaked, y’all

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Girl, anyway.

Loved being part of today's @atriabooks.bsky.social panel on resistance - and discussed the joint power of written resistance in THE PEOPLE'S PROJECT, curated by @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, out September 9 (I contributed a poem!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pe...

Chaofeng Ge is the third Asian and 12th person overall to die in ICE custody this year. The 32-year-old man from China was held at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center for several days — a disgraceful ICE facility with a documented history of medical neglect and psychological abuse. 🧵⬇️

MONTHS since I've been on Bluesky. Thanks, anxiety! What have I been up to? 1) My #undocumented Filipino American food memoir, DIRTY KITCHEN, published in May with @atriabooks.bsky.social + my editor @abastagli.bsky.social . Here's the New York Times Book Review: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/b...

#TheWhiteLotus #TheCaucasianLotus: we all got thrown for a loop! The use of Asian/East Asian non-linear storytelling (not arc- or plot-driven, more about exploring themes, sometimes circular, as it was here) did cross my mind mid-season, so it’s cool to see that that’s what was actually done. 1/3🧵

Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility by revisiting our Both/And essay series, filled with stories of invisibility and hypervisibility, sexy stories, dreams and love and grief, told fearlessly and honestly by trans and gender nonconforming writers of color.

Alicia Kennedy is here!!!

Books I recommend on this (theory, academic): “The Queerness of Water” by Jeremy Chow and “Underflows” by Cleo Wolfle Hazard…both explore ecologies and environmental sciences through queer theories (the first book) and trans theories (the second book) 1/2

Toni Morrison Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Amy Tan Jhumpa Lahiri

lmao what the fuck

Just ordered this book.

My piece for @thenation.com on Duterte’s arrest by the ICC is up today. How did he get away with it for 6 years, and how are his autocratic machinations a warning sign for the US? www.thenation.com/article/worl... #duterte #rodrigoduterte #philippines #icc

My piece for @thenation.com on Duterte’s arrest by the ICC is up today. How did he get away with it for 6 years, and how are his autocratic machinations a warning sign for the US? www.thenation.com/article/worl... #duterte #rodrigoduterte #philippines #icc

When R.F.K., Jr., says that Americans are “the sickest people on earth,” he does not acknowledge that the nations at the top of the health-care rankings all have two things he doesn’t like: universal health care and comprehensive vaccine programs.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

“Because of the president, we have a fear.” Fearing deportation, undocumented workers are staying home. The impact is being felt not only in immigrant communities, but also in the industries that rely on their labor, including residential construction, agriculture, senior care and hospitality.

Responses like these are the most toxic of all. Life tip: stop condescending to tell immigrants to be grateful to be in America and to thank people lol. It’s embarrassing. Immigrants owe nothing. My responses are below in this thread 👇🏼

*sneaks back into Bluesky* My @nytimes.com op-ed on leaving America as an #undocumented #immigrant and returning as a different person is now up. Gift link below 👇🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...

so hurry to where it's soft & I will weep with you. —Ina Cariño, from "Point to Home"

Sometimes I just love Reddit. Today’s fave post: someone found a video on Doechii’s Youtube from 5 years ago. What a journey. Queen shit! youtu.be/f9hOEtND_zs?...

DIRTY KITCHEN has its first ever Goodreads review and whew, I am EMOTIONAL 😭 Rachel Martin, I don’t know you, but thank you for the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you for contacting the abyss. Your scream is very important to us.

“The Rider,” by Naomi Shihab Nye, from her book Fuel.

The reason people think that AI excels at summarising long documents is because they haven't read the long documents that they are using the AI to summarise

Deleted Instagram for the week as part of the #Meta protest. Cheers to @alexanderchee.bsky.social for the heads up! (Here’s a picture of me in wrinkly pajamas at 3am, testing out my early birthday present)

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

My first year writing students do often enjoy it.

“These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ.” www.teenvogue.com/story/wildfi...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

There are families who will never be able to come back from this devastation, and many of them were in generational homes, passed down from people who bought homes in the 1970sand 80's in Altadena. All of the fires are a tragedy, but especially for those who don't have the resources to rebuild.

Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as deprivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. I had to make alternative routes; it made me curious; it made me ask, “Is this enough for me?” —Ocean Vuong

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

Just the @nytimes.com cementing its rep as the guardian of the wealthy. In covering the LA wildfires, the Getty Museum and “iconic mansions” are mentioned. Nothing abt working- and middle-class ppl losing their homes, the unhoused, the elderly, or animals/wildlife. No resources shared, either. Lol.

A New Form of Slavery? Meet Incarcerated Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires for $1 an Hour (from 2018)

I wrote about a documentary featuring one of the first Filipina Americans born and raised outside of the Philippines in the Bay Area. 🇵🇭✨