No one has to repost me. Don't let that be a valid reason not to support. Writers, platforms, can say a few words about why human translation is important to them, or global coordination, or shifting power to Black publishers, or whatever. Say it, then add this link: ko-fi.com/africantrans...

nbd sobbing over this pic of a firefighter rescuing someone’s cat from the hong kong fire

starting the first day of my taichi training camp at Mount Qingcheng! 👊

What I have been up to in Chengdu: eating the most delicious Sichuanese food and snacks, visiting sites connected to the poets Du Fu and Xue Tao (especially happy about the latter because yay literary female ancestors), touring a cool temple and buildings associated with various gods of literature

so happy to be back in Sichuan after 7 years away. i'm going to have the best food every single day for the next few weeks 😂

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

City Book Room in Singapore sold out on all the copies of The Lantern and the Night Moths they ordered for my event before I arrived XD but they're kindly taking pre-orders for more so if you want to get a copy, please check them out

The Lantern And The Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social and A Study In Our Selves @maxpasakorn.bsky.social 🌈🌈🌈💖💖💖

Go get The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation by @yilinwriter.bsky.social !

I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested. City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hope to see folks in Singapore at this event! Translating In-Betweenness: Readings and Discussions: Diaspora, Gender, and Literary Translation Yilin Wang, Max Pasakorn, Sherice Ngaserin Date: 22. 11. 2025 (Saturday) Time: 4-5:30pm City Book Room 387 Joo Chiat Rd, #03-02 The Modules, S427623

🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth. We hold every name and every story in our hearts. #TDOR

I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested. City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I had the worst experience with a hotel ever last night, involving Habyt Chinatown in Singapore. No keys in the check-in mailbox, unreachable via emergency line, unreachable via whatsapp/text, inaccessible with really steep staircases, emergency keycard that can randomly open other guests' rooms!

made it to Singapore last night. a lot of drama dealing with a hotel (when i went to do the self check-in, keys were missing, emergency line was unreachable, whatsapp unreachable the room number didn't even exist, and i had to rely on other people staying there to try to contact them 😱)

I have sent a letter. Please help us fight against gentrification in Vancouver's Chinatown. The space should be used for social housing, not expensive condos. share.nwmd.social/s/e4iK0k3f

llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever

oh it's so gross

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨ Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong... here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

I am so sad to hear this. Thank you for everything, Alice. I was in touch with her briefly when helping to translate materials for crips for e-sims for Gaza, and she is such an inspiration. Rest in power, Alice 💔

Guys I am ready for the training camp and Daoist temple stay Look what I bought 😂 the book's title is 中国古代导师生活 The Life of Ancient Chinese Daoists and it came from a book shelf section named 道教神仙学（Daoism-the study of immortal deities/Xian) 😂

Hope to see folks in Singapore at this event! Translating In-Betweenness: Readings and Discussions: Diaspora, Gender, and Literary Translation Yilin Wang, Max Pasakorn, Sherice Ngaserin Date: 22. 11. 2025 (Saturday) Time: 4-5:30pm City Book Room 387 Joo Chiat Rd, #03-02 The Modules, S427623

Bookman Books in Taipei will be stocking my book The Lantern and the Night Moths, so the book will finally be available through a bookstore here if you're looking for a copy. www.bookman.com.tw/books/detail...

The Yanai Initiative is pleased to invite proposals for a symposium entitled “Experimental Translations in/with East Asian Languages,” to be hosted at UCLA on April 10-11, 2026. Deadline November 30, 2025, 11:59 PM (PT). See more information threaded below. ⬇️

signed up for a 3-day "secret training camp" (密训营) to learn taichi from the sect leader of the Qingcheng School 青城派 in Sichuan at the end of the month... also planning a stay at a Daoist temple on Mount Qingcheng after. i feel like i'm in a wuxia novel

Wowww!! We are having some wild auroras tonight. Missouri is on fire with magenta skies! (Intensified by the camera's sensitivity but still!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccAT... #aurora #auroraborealis

This is what you get for mistreating translators 🫠 It's karma

Omg that terrible magazine that approached me about publishing my translations while I was fighting the British Museum and then published my work without contracts or proofs in place... has shut down (last year apparently, i was not paying attention)

just a heads up for folks in Singapore that i'm headed your way in late November and have an event planned at the City Book Room on Nov 22nd at 4pm. more details soon but please save the time slot if you wanna come.

What a preventable tragedy caused by a disinformation grievance industrial complex. Shameful.

I will be at National Taiwan Normal University 师大 to do a class visit at the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation on Thursday. I'll be sharing some translations of all five poets including in The Lantern and the Night Moths, and discussing poetry translation.

It is the 150th year anniversary of Qiu Jin's birth. It is an honor to translate the work of this amazing feminist poet. Just want to take some time today to honor her memory 💐

a while ago my translation of Fei Ming's poem "the nineteenth night of december" was chosen by the composer Sun Keting to be the lyrics for a song, and the song is now available on spotify as of today :) open.spotify.com/track/6K5zY2...

i've been working on translations of two poems from the Classic of Poetry 诗经 (the oldest surviving book of chinese poetry dating back to 11th to 7th century BC). I have had to consult 6 annotated editions, and the most thorough edition has 3+ pages of annotations for every single line lol 😅

At this year’s Int’l Booker Prize ceremony, a white translator went on a rant TO MY FACE about how translators should translate into their first languages only and I was genuinely flabbergasted because I was like… Do you know whom you’re speaking to???

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

heard another story about a canadian press being outright racist to a translator of color... we all talk to each other you know. what BS wow

I am giving a talk tomorrow in a building that does not yet exist on Google maps so another translator friend and I are of course now making jokes about translators being literally invisible 😂

I managed to finish a first draft of a musical/libretto! So much revision to do, so much still to learn, and of course I am expecting so much to change during the collaboration process, but wow, who knew that my writing/translation journey would have led me here? 😂💜

i'd like to join the club of critical aunty studies please scroll.in/global/99257...

Just heard that my work is now featured on BC BookWorld, Canada's largest-circulation independent publication about books. Glad to hear it given that Canada has an ongoing issue where it likes to pretend translators/translated literature is not a part of CanLit... abcbookworld.com/writer/wang-...

Please come! Share it with folks you know in Taipei

it's the last day of my stay at a writer's residency and i have developed headcanon featuring an expanding pantheon of queer Chinese gods so i count that as a success lol

omg as someone born in the hometown where Nezha is supposedly from, it's fun to learn that techno Nezha music 電音三太子 is a thing at Taiwanese temples... not a combo i'd have ever dreamed of www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZIx...

Chengdu Worldcon Revokes Administrator Authority

There is apparently a part 2 but i'm not even going to bother