may the new year help, not hinder; and allow us to shed the sorrows of the old. [豐子愷 采藥 Feng Zikai, "Collecting Herbs"] #蛇年安康

Hi friends. The audiobook for Chinese Prodigal was released last week, so if you've been waiting to read it, why not have me read it to you? (Yes, I'm the narrator!) It's available on Audible (Amazon), Apple Books, and Audiobooks.com. Thanks!

I know it sounds insane but this is not a joke, Texas pays millions to bitcoin miners to not eat up electricity during high demand days. That’s a real policy that exists bsky.app/profile/juli...

mel tucker’s contract is worth over twice wvu’s budget deficit

Join me live on WPR's The Larry Meiller Show on the Ideas Network tomorrow (Thursday) morning from 11:00am-11:45am CT to talk about Chinese Prodigal. Over the air and streamable from the show's website. Hope you can tune in and call in to ask a question!

My hell money arrived. Love the way it looks!

They did Mary Shelley dirty in the Frankenstein film credits.

I get to talk about Chinese Prodigal in this fun interview with Tom Beer, editor-in-chief of Kirkus. You find out why the title is a pun!

This means so much to me, @alexanderchee.bsky.social. Thank you, truly.

For Lithub, got to write about reading Asian American writers for the first time.

Perfect take on this topic and the age-old architecture of blaming the victim messaging.

the hanania affair is most revealing for the simple reason that it is the easiest possible case. do you disavow and exclude the legitimately stupid guy who is openly a genocidal racist? and for a bunch of the commentariat the answer is “maybe…no?”

clarence thomas was that guy at your high school with a bmw

ICYMI On the occasion of James Baldwin's birthday, my essay on the 60th anniversary of The Fire Next Time and what it means to teach it in a new era of book bans.

Resurrecting this fierce rabbit god in the latter half of #YearOfTheHare #兔年 to guard us from the current Hellmouth [林窯。余淑麗 2011, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan]

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally

Honored to be included in this group with @amyhundley.bsky.social for my memoir Chinese Prodigal, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic on August 15! https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/92879-writers-to-watch-10-noteworthy-nonfiction-debuts-fall-2023.html

*taps mic* Hello, good people of the sky. I come with your midweek reminder that we have a #HISTORY feed: 🗃️ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6brknehpd7ecbvd56ko6mhlm/feed/aaaby3zazwhrq

Her response here is so inspiring. To be this young and this free.

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he looks like namath when namath was on the brady bunch

The dismantling of Twitter is a watershed moment with serious implications for our democracy. Re-upping “On Twitter’s End.” This one’s for you @jack.bsky.social. https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/on-twitters-end?r=1sqa3e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Of COURSE the hard “er”remains

Hey everybody bookshop.org has free shipping today and tomorrow in response to Amazon prime day, and it supports your local independent bookstore.

profiles in alt text excellence #18: I was taken aback by the poetry of alexander's captioning. I felt like I was actually there

Also failed to disclose membership in the secretive Charlie Bucket Society.

*closes Threads*

I thought Patrick Henry was Black because i did not understand why he would be shouting “give me liberty or give me death” otherwise.

you know, if you were just a person living on tatooine who didn't know any different, it probably just seemed like luke killed his aunt and uncle and ran away

Highly recommend this book from @nicolechung.bsky.social

On the 60th anniversary of The Fire Next Time, my latest for The Progressive, which originally published the book's first essay in 1962. Truly my honor. https://progressive.org/latest/on-the-anniversary-of-the-fire-next-time-shih-20230704/

Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals

I was a guest this morning on This Week on ABC to talk about the Supreme Court’s decision in the affirmative action case. WATCH the segment here: https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/affirmative-action-decision-disastrous-sherrilyn-ifill-100596013

this was him right?

There is so much that is wrong about the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action in college admissions. Hours after its release I could only hit the worst of it. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/john-roberts-supreme-court-brown-v-board-of-education.html

it's july. i fear that school supplies are prominently displayed in stores again, aren't they?

My latest on the end of affirmative action, in which Chief Justice Roberts erroneously invokes Yick Wo as an ancestor to anti-affirmative action Asian Americans to pursue a colorblind myth. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/supreme-court-affirmative-action-asian-discrimination.html

At the Grove Atlantic booth at #ALAAC23 in Chicago to talk about writing of Chinese Prodigal.

Decided what should be my first post on here. A mural from my beautiful college town in western Wisconsin. #BlackLivesMatter