Nicole Chung
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, The Washington Post &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung • loyaltybookstores.com/nicolechung
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Nicole Chung
@nicolechung.bsky.social
· Oct 2
When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
www.theatlantic.com
If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.
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I love this book so much.
Three signed and personalized copies of A Living Remedy are up for grabs at the 2026 Brew & Forge Book Fair! Should arrive in time for holiday gifting ❤️🎁 www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/a...
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung — Brew & Forge
Ecco/HarperCollins, 2024. “Nicole Chung weaves a groundbreaking narrative steeped in love, humor, the infinitude of memory, and the essentiality of community.... A Living Remedy is elegiac and ...
www.brewandforge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I love this book so much.
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Three signed and personalized copies of A Living Remedy are up for grabs at the 2026 Brew & Forge Book Fair! Should arrive in time for holiday gifting ❤️🎁 www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/a...
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung — Brew & Forge
Ecco/HarperCollins, 2024. “Nicole Chung weaves a groundbreaking narrative steeped in love, humor, the infinitude of memory, and the essentiality of community.... A Living Remedy is elegiac and ...
www.brewandforge.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Three signed and personalized copies of A Living Remedy are up for grabs at the 2026 Brew & Forge Book Fair! Should arrive in time for holiday gifting ❤️🎁 www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/a...
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
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On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
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Proof of end times = autism speaks being on the right side of the statement 🙃
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Proof of end times = autism speaks being on the right side of the statement 🙃
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if you’d like to learn more about my Memoir Year workshop, come to this free virtual info session on 12/8! writer.org/event/virtua...
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
if you’d like to learn more about my Memoir Year workshop, come to this free virtual info session on 12/8! writer.org/event/virtua...
she is also ready for “let’s circle back after the holidays” season
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
she is also ready for “let’s circle back after the holidays” season
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"Not everyone is rising to the occasion because the times you live in do not immediately shape who you are and what you do... you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self." @prisonculture.bsky.social
prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"Not everyone is rising to the occasion because the times you live in do not immediately shape who you are and what you do... you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self." @prisonculture.bsky.social
prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
if you’d like to learn more about my Memoir Year workshop, come to this free virtual info session on 12/8! writer.org/event/virtua...
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
if you’d like to learn more about my Memoir Year workshop, come to this free virtual info session on 12/8! writer.org/event/virtua...
Three signed and personalized copies of A Living Remedy are up for grabs at the 2026 Brew & Forge Book Fair! Should arrive in time for holiday gifting ❤️🎁 www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/a...
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung — Brew & Forge
Ecco/HarperCollins, 2024. “Nicole Chung weaves a groundbreaking narrative steeped in love, humor, the infinitude of memory, and the essentiality of community.... A Living Remedy is elegiac and ...
www.brewandforge.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Three signed and personalized copies of A Living Remedy are up for grabs at the 2026 Brew & Forge Book Fair! Should arrive in time for holiday gifting ❤️🎁 www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/a...
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org
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You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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To apply, please send a writing sample of 10-20 pages + 1-2 paragraphs describing your writing goals/intentions to [email protected] by 1/24/26. I'm hype and admission is rolling, so feel free to get your app in early! You can ask me questions here or come to the virtual info session on 12/8.
Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung - The Writer's Center
Work on your memoir with bestselling author Nicole Chung! This intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir or memoir-in-essays. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft...
writer.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
To apply, please send a writing sample of 10-20 pages + 1-2 paragraphs describing your writing goals/intentions to [email protected] by 1/24/26. I'm hype and admission is rolling, so feel free to get your app in early! You can ask me questions here or come to the virtual info session on 12/8.
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This Memoir Year workshop is my favorite class to teach. We'll write together for 10 months—workshopping your pages, engaging in craft discussions and generative exercises, seeing your projects grow. You'll have help in establishing the sustainable practice you want within a supportive community.
Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung - The Writer's Center
Work on your memoir with bestselling author Nicole Chung! This intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir or memoir-in-essays. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft...
writer.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This Memoir Year workshop is my favorite class to teach. We'll write together for 10 months—workshopping your pages, engaging in craft discussions and generative exercises, seeing your projects grow. You'll have help in establishing the sustainable practice you want within a supportive community.
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Let's write together in 2026! If you're looking to jumpstart your memoir project—or are already underway & want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this @thewriterscenter.bsky.social workshop is for you. We'll meet twice a month, starting in February; learn more + apply here:
Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung - The Writer's Center
Work on your memoir with bestselling author Nicole Chung! This intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir or memoir-in-essays. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft...
writer.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Let's write together in 2026! If you're looking to jumpstart your memoir project—or are already underway & want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this @thewriterscenter.bsky.social workshop is for you. We'll meet twice a month, starting in February; learn more + apply here:
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The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊
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NEW: Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11.
National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11
National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.
www.lawdork.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 AM
NEW: Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11.
National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’
Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
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Portland’s Mayor, much of City Council, and many Portlanders spent recent days aligning themselves directly with Trump’s policies towards our precariously housed and homeless neighbors, while rabidly promoting a local extension of it.
It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.
It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Portland’s Mayor, much of City Council, and many Portlanders spent recent days aligning themselves directly with Trump’s policies towards our precariously housed and homeless neighbors, while rabidly promoting a local extension of it.
It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.
It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.
when you have a perfect life and you’re still going through it
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
when you have a perfect life and you’re still going through it
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.