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...

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."

I had my students do trivia on nuclear testing in the Pacific, and one group chose the team name Mushroom Clouds 🤣

Honored to have been nominated for Best of the Net. Read my poem here: phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...

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. www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uplo...

The pharmacist said my name was pretty and wrote it in calligraphy

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

This morning, I found out there's a chestnut tree across the road from me and this is the tastiest accidental discovery

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...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

I had my students rewrite a Mbembe quote as a tweet, and I'm still laughing at what they wrote. Some examples:

My favorite part of handwritten reflection journals is seeing all the students' cute misspellings, AI could never

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

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"

Like I needed another reason to avoid Home Depot and Lowes.

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. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

I finally wrote an essay on my experience in my PhD program: panoramajournal.org/issues/issue...

Had the cutest interaction with a student who was so excited to discover that I’m also Chinese American

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

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

Crocheted a scene from Howl’s Moving Castle! Pattern: wellsaidane.wixsite.com/crochet/patt...

“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?

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...

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.

if ken cuccinelli is appointed president of UVA all hell will break loose here

a crowd has gathered at the UVA rotunda in response to the forced resignation of president jim ryan

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

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.

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.

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/

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.

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...

If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.

At the VCU conference yesterday, someone asked if UVA had professional advising, and I got to say that they do now

Me, giggling madly at my course image

Still thinking about those Korean corndogs @madssmoods.bsky.social and I ate

If you are stopped by Trump's ICE goons, or any other kind of cops: I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT. Memorize it. And don't let ICE in without a JUDICIAL warrant. No, administrative warrants don't count.

UVA students react to latest DEI amendments from Board of Visitors

I helped a facilities person pull something up a hill, and he told me, "Good luck on exams!" He probably thinks I've lost it because I couldn't hold back my laughter while telling him "thank you"

Federal agents did not have a warrant when they arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student who had been an outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights, according to court documents.

One of my students didn't realize I work over the summer and was so adorably excited to learn that he could email me because he thought we'd be unreachable like professors

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

I worked with #CityYear right before grad school and learned so much from my second graders. I wouldn't be the teacher I am today without that experience. Americorps also saved me from having to pay hundreds of dollars in grad school application fees, and their education award funded my laptop.

Kicker: Columbia solicits donations to “support our international students in this challenging time”

Mint Springs Valley Park: traversed some mint springs, chased several butterflies, found some cute friends

Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.

UVA’s international community mailing list received notice this evening that a student’s visa has been cancelled. No further info yet, at least not public.