eileen chengyin chow
@chowleen.bsky.social
@chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
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The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
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The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
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My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
How North Carolina Rose Up Against Trump’s Latest Anti-Immigrant Crackdown
“Operation Charlotte’s Web” may mobilize North Carolina’s working-class Latino members and allies to shift the political balance of power at the local, state, and national levels.
www.thenation.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
So terrible www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Death toll in Hong Kong high-rise fire rises to 44, with 279 reported missing
Hong Kong leader John Lee has said 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday. He said another 279 people were reported miss...
www.npr.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So terrible www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
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It has been SO satisfying seeing #Bugonia and Knives Out 3: #WakeUpDeadMan in crowded cinemas and to be immersed in the screen and to hear audible gasps (from me, too).
I love going to the movies.
I love going to the movies.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It has been SO satisfying seeing #Bugonia and Knives Out 3: #WakeUpDeadMan in crowded cinemas and to be immersed in the screen and to hear audible gasps (from me, too).
I love going to the movies.
I love going to the movies.
Rather charming to have all three GenZ kids blasting ‘Half A Person’ in the car and singing along and then asking, only semi-ironically:
“You know The Smiths, right?”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sLX5...
“You know The Smiths, right?”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sLX5...
The Smiths - Half A Person (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Smiths
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Rather charming to have all three GenZ kids blasting ‘Half A Person’ in the car and singing along and then asking, only semi-ironically:
“You know The Smiths, right?”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sLX5...
“You know The Smiths, right?”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sLX5...
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Be seated! Wednesday, in a movie theater, to see #WakeUpDeadMan! See my pinned post for a theater finder link
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Be seated! Wednesday, in a movie theater, to see #WakeUpDeadMan! See my pinned post for a theater finder link
It has been SO satisfying seeing #Bugonia and Knives Out 3: #WakeUpDeadMan in crowded cinemas and to be immersed in the screen and to hear audible gasps (from me, too).
I love going to the movies.
I love going to the movies.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It has been SO satisfying seeing #Bugonia and Knives Out 3: #WakeUpDeadMan in crowded cinemas and to be immersed in the screen and to hear audible gasps (from me, too).
I love going to the movies.
I love going to the movies.
The border is a rusted hinge that does not bend.
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The border is a rusted hinge that does not bend.
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
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Our local organizers are amazing! Strong existing networks meant everyone could come together in the space of a few days. See poster for all the groups that mobilized together.
Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social also for great work across NC.
Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social also for great work across NC.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Our local organizers are amazing! Strong existing networks meant everyone could come together in the space of a few days. See poster for all the groups that mobilized together.
Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social also for great work across NC.
Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social also for great work across NC.
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Contra the latest NYT bit - SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE at rallies and protests in NC. And brave ones - when they and their parents are the ones being profiled and dragged out of their cars, churches, grocery stories, school parking lots.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Contra the latest NYT bit - SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE at rallies and protests in NC. And brave ones - when they and their parents are the ones being profiled and dragged out of their cars, churches, grocery stories, school parking lots.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
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Exactly!
And there were people passing out flyers at our demonstrations too
And there were people passing out flyers at our demonstrations too
Contra the latest NYT bit - SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE at rallies and protests in NC. And brave ones - when they and their parents are the ones being profiled and dragged out of their cars, churches, grocery stories, school parking lots.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Exactly!
And there were people passing out flyers at our demonstrations too
And there were people passing out flyers at our demonstrations too
Contra the latest NYT bit - SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE at rallies and protests in NC. And brave ones - when they and their parents are the ones being profiled and dragged out of their cars, churches, grocery stories, school parking lots.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Contra the latest NYT bit - SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE at rallies and protests in NC. And brave ones - when they and their parents are the ones being profiled and dragged out of their cars, churches, grocery stories, school parking lots.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
This is one of my Duke students. High schoolers spoke as well.
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Durham, NC tonight. A massive and righteously joyful crowd. So so many young people.
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Durham, NC tonight. A massive and righteously joyful crowd. So so many young people.
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Cherries in a blue bowl
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cherries in a blue bowl
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Excuse me, I need you to look at the color of these perfect apples.
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Excuse me, I need you to look at the color of these perfect apples.
Cherries in a blue bowl
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cherries in a blue bowl
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
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Léon Spilliaert - Marine - 1904
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Léon Spilliaert - Marine - 1904
Our local organizers are amazing! Strong existing networks meant everyone could come together in the space of a few days. See poster for all the groups that mobilized together.
Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social also for great work across NC.
Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social also for great work across NC.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Our local organizers are amazing! Strong existing networks meant everyone could come together in the space of a few days. See poster for all the groups that mobilized together.
Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social also for great work across NC.
Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social also for great work across NC.
The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
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Durham, North Carolina showing up!
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Durham, North Carolina showing up!
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I was looking at protest photos from NC and if this isn’t the shadiest, most southern ass sign… I love you, Durham!
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I was looking at protest photos from NC and if this isn’t the shadiest, most southern ass sign… I love you, Durham!
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So, I won a National Book Award.
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
So, I won a National Book Award.
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I’m faculty advisor to Beyond Borders, a Duke student immigration advocacy group. They have been working nonstop this year - training workshops, working w local and national orgs, lobbying state legislature & DC. So much respect for their determination to work and care for their community.
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I’m faculty advisor to Beyond Borders, a Duke student immigration advocacy group. They have been working nonstop this year - training workshops, working w local and national orgs, lobbying state legislature & DC. So much respect for their determination to work and care for their community.