Sarena T (田 玮 炜)
@sarendipitous.bsky.social
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Educator, writer, and doctor (the PhD kind). Cinnamon roll with a chunk of salt in the middle.
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“I love bones. I’m a bone eater”—my mom (Leaving this out of context because it makes me sound like I'm descended from someone dangerous)
about 1 year ago
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Philly Poetry Chapbook Review
about 1 month ago
Editor Aiden Hunt announces Philly Chapbook Review's 2026 Pushcart Prize anthology nominations in this editor's note and provides links to, and a carousel of, the nominated poems.
phillychapbookreview.org/december-25-...
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Skye
18 days ago
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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Obsessed with this melon sorbet that came in a cute container I got to keep
23 days ago
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Committed two crimes today by eating this poor octopus bao and these goldfish dumplings
about 1 month ago
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My mom and I, looking at a menu outside: My mom: “You need to order something” Me, pointing out that there are no English translations: “I cannot” My mom: “Oh no”
about 1 month ago
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Last night’s dinner view over Peking Duck
about 1 month ago
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Weeping because you can order $1-3 plates of sushi in Hong Kong that come to you on a little conveyor belt
about 1 month ago
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Baked madeleines for the first time
about 2 months ago
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After an unexpected hiccup, the newest crochet tapestry has finally been added to the office
about 2 months ago
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Crochet is the only time I will willingly do math
about 2 months ago
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Fucking Bitch Hat
2 months ago
Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the
@nytimes.com
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Anyone who says Humpback Rocks is an easy hike is a liar
2 months ago
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Beyond excited about this adorable ceramic yarn bowl I that I thrifted for $3
3 months ago
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Now available as an eBook!
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3 months ago
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Charlottesville sunrise
3 months ago
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My students wrote some 🔥 final reflections, I am so relieved and excited that they took away what I was hoping they would from my class
3 months ago
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Deborah McDowell
3 months ago
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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The B'K Magazine
4 months ago
Please note the CWs You stuck your slurs into my skin when you tried to silence me, afraid of my aberration. Read more of "Your Remains are My Religion" by
@sarendipitous.bsky.social
in All My Relations, Volume 9:
www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
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Check out my novelette! Fun fact: I started writing it because someone once told me that writing can't work as "a piece of art or entertainment as well as an awareness platform."
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4 months ago
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I had my students do trivia on nuclear testing in the Pacific, and one group chose the team name Mushroom Clouds 🤣
4 months ago
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Honored to have been nominated for Best of the Net. Read my poem here:
phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...
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4 months ago
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Delegate Katrina Callsen
4 months ago
Here is the Virginia Department of Health standing order that can used to get a pharmacy based covid vaccine for those 65+ or 18-64 with at least one underlying condition. Your pharmacy should have a copy as well.
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https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uploads/sites/134/COVID-Vaccine-Standing-Order.pdf
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The pharmacist said my name was pretty and wrote it in calligraphy
4 months ago
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Before every class, I play a song by a Francophone singer from the country/region we're studying. Yesterday, I chose Naïka's "Belle, Belle!" and a student said the song was fire and added it to his playlist
4 months ago
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This morning, I found out there's a chestnut tree across the road from me and this is the tastiest accidental discovery
4 months ago
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Last fall,
@yellowarrowpub.bsky.social
published my poem "A Doctoral Education." This fall, they featured me in .Writers.on.Writing., where I discuss my piece and my writing:
www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/writersonwri...
4 months ago
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David_j_roth
4 months ago
We took the paywall down on this one.
defector.com/how-the-fuck...
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How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
https://defector.com/how-the-fuck-are-you-supposed-to-get-your-covid-vaccine
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I had my students rewrite a Mbembe quote as a tweet, and I'm still laughing at what they wrote. Some examples:
4 months ago
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My favorite part of handwritten reflection journals is seeing all the students' cute misspellings, AI could never
5 months ago
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I was blessed with the best bus ride ever. Her owner said it’s highly unusual for her to take to strangers, but she just lay down under my seat and stayed there the whole time
5 months ago
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Thrilled to have one of my favorite poems republished in All My Relations! Check out the issue and my poem "Your Remains are My Religion"
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5 months ago
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Kevin M. Kruse
5 months ago
Like I needed another reason to avoid Home Depot and Lowes.
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Alejandra Caraballo
5 months ago
The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized.
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Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement
“Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.
https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-students-unsafe-brown-university
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I finally wrote an essay on my experience in my PhD program:
panoramajournal.org/issues/issue...
6 months ago
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Had the cutest interaction with a student who was so excited to discover that I’m also Chinese American
6 months ago
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Joseph “offline” Howley
6 months ago
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
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Have discovered my favorite line from a book, The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation by Binh Tu Tran
6 months ago
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Crocheted a scene from Howl’s Moving Castle! Pattern:
wellsaidane.wixsite.com/crochet/patt...
7 months ago
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Tiffany C. Li
7 months ago
“He’s easily bruising. He has bone pain. He looks pale .… He has also lost his appetite …. His mom is terrified that these are symptoms that his leukemia situation might be deteriorating.” A 6-year-old with cancer is languishing in a U.S. detention camp. Who will answer for this cruelty?
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Erik Linstrum
7 months ago
More than 100 UVA faculty (and counting) have signed an open letter condemning political interference in the university. The forced installation of a new president under these circumstances will cast a shadow on teaching and research. Read here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open Letter on Academic Freedom at UVA
Open Letter from Members of the Faculty of the University of Virginia In light of reporting that officials at the Department of Justice are pressuring University of Virginia President Jim Ryan to re...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tjXTWFbtoHH0ggRTlQq5kgDhcSfpBD7uyB81PspWnXE/
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If DEI is such a problem, tell me why, when I met with one of my Asian advisees, they wanted to know what kind of Asian I am before we bonded over wanting to learn how to speak our mother tongues fluently.
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7 months ago
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jamelle
7 months ago
if ken cuccinelli is appointed president of UVA all hell will break loose here
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molly conger
7 months ago
a crowd has gathered at the UVA rotunda in response to the forced resignation of president jim ryan
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Kelly Moore
7 months ago
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
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University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/university-of-virginia-president-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Inclusivity and languages matter: I had a student tell me that she appreciated me including my pronouns in French and Mandarin in my Zoom name
7 months ago
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Oliver Ghingold
7 months ago
CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.
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molly conger
7 months ago
just a reminder that only water goes in your eyes, don’t wear contacts to a protest if you can help it, hot showers will hurt like hell if you have mace or gas residue on your skin. turn off face ID on your phone. pick a buddy & never leave their side. if detained, ask for a lawyer & then shut up.
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Thrilled to share that
@thehellebore.bsky.social
has published an alternate version of one of my poems in Issue 12: Marrow!
thehellebore.com/sarena-tien/
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Sarena Tien
Mother Tongue In Mandarin, my mom tells me,The house doesn’t have any crayons. I ask why she needs them, but she replies,No, not crayons, the little round things.I don’t understand. What round thin…
https://thehellebore.com/sarena-tien/
8 months ago
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Alejandra Caraballo
8 months ago
A Harvard international student was just detained for hours and had her devices confiscated by CBP at Logan airport. She was released but this comes hours after DHS ended the ability for international students to enroll at Harvard. Absolutely terrifying time for colleagues and classmates.
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Adil Ray
8 months ago
The UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, says 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if more aid doesn't reach them
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
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UN tells BBC 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without urgent aid
Tom Fletcher says five aid trucks allowed into Gaza yesterday have not yet reached people, as the UK, France and Canada threaten action against Israel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq8037dd3p9t
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