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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Sep 24

Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem

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Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · Sep 17

Luiza Brina is an artist on a small, São Paulo-based label who captured my heart so deeply that I wrote a letter to Brazil's ministry of culture so she could get a grant to travel to the U.S., so that we could share her music. This one took a lot of work to produce, and it has my whole heart.

NPR @npr.org · Sep 17

At the Tiny Desk, the Brazilian artist presents a searching set of orações that serve as meditations, no matter your spiritual journey.

Luiza Brina: Tiny Desk Concert

At the Tiny Desk, the Brazilian artist presents a searching set of orações that serve as meditations, no matter your spiritual journey.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · Sep 7

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · Sep 6

The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House

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Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you see this, quote repost with a vampire who isn't Dracula.

Common Vampire bat hanging from a rocky surface and looking at the camera. Desmodus rotundus, picture taken at Sangayan Island, Paracas National Reserve, Departamento Ica, Peru. Photo by: Acatenazzi

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Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · Sep 3

First day of classes on campus = always a shock to transition back to soooo many students omg

Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · Aug 29

Omg earlier I saw this post out of the corner of my eye and my brain read it as Zao playing Tiny Desk, and I was like…. HOW in the world did I not know about Zao playing Tiny Desk?!?

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · Aug 18

I like how Studio Ghibli films are like, "Cool, a new monster friend!" and "A witch and her cat!" when you're a kid, and then "Do you ever think about your parents dying?" and "What if you're so burned out you can't do the thing you love anymore?" when you're an adult

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Aug 5

5 years ago, I had sent this message to students enrolled in my Chinatowns class at the height of online pandemic education. Then, I wanted to send some words of reassurance, and to offer our (virtual) classroom as genuine community.

Uncanny to feel as if we are in direr straits on campuses today.

5. Most importantly, I recognize that none of us signed up for an online Duke experience. I don't expect to be able to teach in the same way nor do I expect you to learn in the same way. Not academically, not socially, not intellectually.
A bit of history: from the very first time I designed and taught this course, I understood it to be about community - the ways it is fostered, even in the direst of circumstances.
Many of the first "Chinatowns" were labelled as such as a result of institutional racism, fear and a desire to ghettoize those who seemed unfamiliar and therefore dangerous. In their more recent incarnations, they are often touristic spaces - yet many of them are once again in peril from the pandemic and the resulting economic downturn, from a resurgence of xenophobia and anti-Asian racism, as well as from existing issues such as gentrification and global political tensions now exacerbated. A bit dark - but what better time to study the history of communities worldwide that have lived through prior plagues and targeted destruction and social upheaval?
However, Chinatown communities also grew out of a genuine longing for home - for normalcy, for nourishment, for protection. Chinatowns have always been about survival and innovation and reinvention, about creative ways to make a living, make a life, and to build family out of strangers and unlikely allies.
In the larger scheme of things, a single course -"Chinatowns," or your entire online Duke fall semester, for that matter - will not make or break your life. None of us knows how things will turn out. Whether our loved ones or ourselves will get sick, whether we can remain financially solvent, whether our passports and visas and identities will be deemed 'illegal, whether we will be shunned from new lands and our homeland, or, what the social and psychic costs will be of the sudden disbanding of our collective lives together.
But my sincere hope is that this fall, in treating each other and ourselves with g…

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Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · Aug 3

Yesterday at an event I had an elderly white lady ask me the classic “but where are you really from” question. Which I don’t often get here since lots of folks tend to think I’m Indigenous, but may have been prompted by the fact that I was wearing one of my Áo Ngũ Thân inspired shirts.

Sigh.

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Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · Jul 23

Don't know who made this, but thank you. adoptastation.org

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media

Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · Jun 23

Hard not to be paranoid when you remember all the times your paranoia was justified.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · Jun 1

I needed to have an emotion in private.

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · May 29

I think about this every day

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Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · May 20

Coworkers doing a photo scavenger hunt came into my office looking for something “strange” for their photo. Their biggest issue was choosing.

Then they asked if I had anything with a rainbow on it and I started laughing at them before overwhelming them with options.

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Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · May 14

First, this is a terrible instructional format for my learning style.

Second, the majority of these videos do not seem to be applicable to my situation and are therefore a waste of my time and I cannot easily skim or search like I’d be able to do with text-based documentation.

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Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · May 14

Rant: just because a lot of users like video content does not mean that everyone should pivot to making all of their content in video format. It can have SO many accessibility issues.
Trying learn something for work and the only options available to me are videos (42min + 55min).

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · May 8

On the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first of a series of increasingly stringent exclusion laws that not only banned the Chinese but also became a blueprint for racially-charged US immigration policy that persists to this day - sharing a poem from Angel Island.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · May 3

“In a time of destruction, create something.

A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”

-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · Dec 29

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · Apr 25

Well overdue for Estey hugs!!

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Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · Apr 18

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · Mar 22

pretending you were asking for more information was the best way to try to get the humans to realize they were doing something stupid.

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · Mar 22

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · Mar 15

Since it's still March, my birthday month. Two things out this month (and yay!)

Wolf's Path: www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...

Cold Steel (second book of the Fire Heart duology): www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...

Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng

within a running wolf, four-pawed, howling

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Dani K. @dkj.bsky.social · Feb 12

So cute!

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