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박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen

@readingspark.bsky.social

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Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Children’s Literature; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com Cover art: Nancy So Miller Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (EMLA)

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박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social · Nov 21

CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿

@ebonyteach.bsky.social Ebony Elizabeth Thomas & I are co-editing a book!

ANNE FOR EVERYONE: GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS @upmississippi.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/AnneForEvery... proposals by Dec 1!

#AnneOfGreenGables #ChildLit #ProfessorLife #iSchoolUI

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박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social · 9d

One of the BEST nights of my life! So glad we could share this experience together!!

박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wow!!! 😍

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fellow KidLit writers:

I’m begging you to stop with the twins separated at birth who miraculously run into each other later in life stories.

🕳️🕳️🕳️

It is a played out trope that perpetuates harmful stereotypes about orphans, adoptees, and fosterees.

It is also lazy writing.

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박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social · Aug 8

👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · Jul 9

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

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박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social · Jul 8

😢 hope it goes away soon

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Meicen Sun @meicensun.bsky.social · Jul 8

My 80th anniversary tribute to Vannevar Bush's July 1945 manifesto: No winner can take all in #AI and we must keep it that way.

🙏 @cartercenter.bsky.social

uscnpm.substack.com/p/winners-ca...

Winners Can't Take All in AI

Competition to dominate the AI race comes at the cost of needed global advancement

uscnpm.substack.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jul 7

Are we great yet?

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jul 4

The Republicans timed the Medicaid cuts to hit right after the 2026 midterms so that the idiot masses will blame the Democrats after they take back the House.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jul 3

The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 3

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jul 4

Rebellions are built on hope.

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Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · Jun 28

We Need Diverse Books and over 25 critically acclaimed authors have launched a virtual panel series, “Magic Stories Are For Everyone,” to raise money in support of trans and nonbinary youth and creators. With Holly Black, Dhonielle Clayton, Marieke Nijkamp, Mark Oshiro & more.
(Fuse 8)

Press Release Fun: We Need Diverse Books, Authors, and Indie Bookstores Support Trans and Nonbinary Youth

Someone's raising money for trans and nonbinary youth and creators? Get on this, people!! It's happening today!

afuse8production.slj.com

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박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social · Jun 26

LOL what were we saying in that action shot 😂

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박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social · Jun 19

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jun 18

Hard to argue with that.

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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · Jun 16

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 13

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jun 13

The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jun 7

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

protesters surround federal detention center in Los Angeles

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Jun 8

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.

That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · Jun 7

I know for a fact that citizens would not be getting tear gassed by ICE and DHS in Los Angeles in June 2025 if we elected the other viable candidate for president.

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박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social · Jun 7

Tell me your pet’s name with a gif!

박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social · Jun 6

BeautiFULL!!! I LOVE YOU!! Congratulations!!

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · Jun 5

Yesterday! Thrilled and grateful to be #FinallyFull. #ProfessorLife #ChairLife #ForeverGoBlue 💛💙

Ebonyteach in a 1940s style black net dress with cherry embroidery. From Detroit's Peacock House boutique. Paired with red floral embroidered flats. Behind is a window showing a golf course and pond beyond. On the window is a flat screen with blue background with the text "Thank You / Faculty Promotions & Tenure Celebration."