Kari Nguyen
@knguyenwrites.bsky.social
Best Microfiction 2020, Best of Boston Literary Magazine, America's Emerging Literary Fiction Writers. MFA at SNHU. Former Nonfiction Editor at Stymie Mag. She/her/hers. karinguyen.wordpress.com.
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Kari Nguyen
@knguyenwrites.bsky.social
· May 18
The mushrooms by the shed stand united in their messaging 🤎
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A lot of the videos I am seeing of people directly confronting ICE in the streets are mostly of women. Are others noticing this too?
December 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A lot of the videos I am seeing of people directly confronting ICE in the streets are mostly of women. Are others noticing this too?
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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"It was amazing to imagine your city was a novel, and that for you to walk around within it meant that you were in language, you were in a thinking text. I had been placed inside of something dreaming, its citizens dreaming, the novels we had all written dreaming."
- Renee Gladman, Houses of Ravicka
- Renee Gladman, Houses of Ravicka
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"It was amazing to imagine your city was a novel, and that for you to walk around within it meant that you were in language, you were in a thinking text. I had been placed inside of something dreaming, its citizens dreaming, the novels we had all written dreaming."
- Renee Gladman, Houses of Ravicka
- Renee Gladman, Houses of Ravicka
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He made dinner.
Pastrami on rye
December 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
He made dinner.
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What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
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what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
cbsn.ws
December 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.
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We all deserve to live in a world where we feel safe to learn, worship, and gather in community. The violence must stop. (2/2)
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We all deserve to live in a world where we feel safe to learn, worship, and gather in community. The violence must stop. (2/2)
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Tonight — as we do every year, but so much more poignantly — we will celebrate Hanukkah in Grand Army Plaza w/Chabad of Park Slope.
Brooklyn’s largest menorah will shine in memory of those killed in Sydney. And to make sure their light never goes out.
www.chabadparkslope.com/templates/ar...
Brooklyn’s largest menorah will shine in memory of those killed in Sydney. And to make sure their light never goes out.
www.chabadparkslope.com/templates/ar...
Grand Army Plaza Menorah Lighting - ChabadParkSlope.com
www.chabadparkslope.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Tonight — as we do every year, but so much more poignantly — we will celebrate Hanukkah in Grand Army Plaza w/Chabad of Park Slope.
Brooklyn’s largest menorah will shine in memory of those killed in Sydney. And to make sure their light never goes out.
www.chabadparkslope.com/templates/ar...
Brooklyn’s largest menorah will shine in memory of those killed in Sydney. And to make sure their light never goes out.
www.chabadparkslope.com/templates/ar...
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Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
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Honestly, I’m furious. Sandy Hook should have been the end of this. Yet on its anniversary more children are dead, injured, and traumatized. It is a horror that is entirely preventable. And we should prevent it. It is not impossible. No matter what the received wisdom has become.
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Honestly, I’m furious. Sandy Hook should have been the end of this. Yet on its anniversary more children are dead, injured, and traumatized. It is a horror that is entirely preventable. And we should prevent it. It is not impossible. No matter what the received wisdom has become.
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Went to bed thinking about Brown and woke up to the news about Bondi Beach. Heartbroken and angry.
December 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Went to bed thinking about Brown and woke up to the news about Bondi Beach. Heartbroken and angry.
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The Sandy Hook anniversary is tomorrow. If anyone is still keeping track anymore.
Two people dead and eight critical but stable condition in hospital, Providence mayor Brett Smiley said.
December 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The Sandy Hook anniversary is tomorrow. If anyone is still keeping track anymore.
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Guns are the leading cause of death for young people in America — this is a five alarm fire and our leaders in Washington have ignored it for too long. Americans are tired of waiting around for Congress to decide that protecting kids matters.
December 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Guns are the leading cause of death for young people in America — this is a five alarm fire and our leaders in Washington have ignored it for too long. Americans are tired of waiting around for Congress to decide that protecting kids matters.
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AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
Longer statement from Brown University:
"We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals."
"We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals."
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?
HOW??????????
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The news out of Brown is horrifying. As an alum, I'm grateful to the student journalists who are covering the shooting, and devastated for the students, faculty, and staff affected by this tragedy.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Active shooter on campus, no suspects in custody, Department of Public Safety reports
The alert and call were sent to students immediately by DPS following the incident, urging students to hide, run or evacuate until further notice.
www.browndailyherald.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The news out of Brown is horrifying. As an alum, I'm grateful to the student journalists who are covering the shooting, and devastated for the students, faculty, and staff affected by this tragedy.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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"Storytelling in all its forms, especially journalism, is what fosters empathy between people who live very different lives. I believe the way to change the criminal legal system is to uplift and amplify the voices of the human beings under its control."
December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Storytelling in all its forms, especially journalism, is what fosters empathy between people who live very different lives. I believe the way to change the criminal legal system is to uplift and amplify the voices of the human beings under its control."
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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deck my body in gay ornaments
December 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
deck my body in gay ornaments
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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This is such a rich list, featuring several novels in translation by excellent presses: necessaryfiction.com/reviews/reco...
Recommended Reading 2025 – Necessary Fiction
necessaryfiction.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is such a rich list, featuring several novels in translation by excellent presses: necessaryfiction.com/reviews/reco...
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Have been up for hours already and the sun hasn't risen yet. Wrote five pages of pep talk, as if a wiser version of me were giving me advice. Basically: It's painful to try new things, but it's the only way to truly grow. Keep going. Maybe this works for you too, today. 💙
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Have been up for hours already and the sun hasn't risen yet. Wrote five pages of pep talk, as if a wiser version of me were giving me advice. Basically: It's painful to try new things, but it's the only way to truly grow. Keep going. Maybe this works for you too, today. 💙
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When the government admits it broke the law to imprison children, that is not a policy failure. It is a moral one.
ICE now admits that hundreds of children were held past the legal 20-day custody limit set to protect their safety.
Five were kept for 168 days.
Some faced unsafe conditions and went days without medical care.
This crosses a moral line.
Five were kept for 168 days.
Some faced unsafe conditions and went days without medical care.
This crosses a moral line.
About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits
Legal advocates concerned over the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody are sounding the alarm before the federal court. U.S.
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
When the government admits it broke the law to imprison children, that is not a policy failure. It is a moral one.
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The turn to slop is something we actually have a lot of power over. We choose what art we engage with and whose art we engage with. We have the ability to choose films based on original ideas, to read books instead of just doom scroll, to talk about poetry instead of just Vanderpump.
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The turn to slop is something we actually have a lot of power over. We choose what art we engage with and whose art we engage with. We have the ability to choose films based on original ideas, to read books instead of just doom scroll, to talk about poetry instead of just Vanderpump.
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Me today (and far too many days).
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Me today (and far too many days).
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me at 5pm ET on this cold December Friday: ladies and gentlemen … the weekend
my editor at 5:01pm: [hops into the Google doc]
my editor at 5:01pm: [hops into the Google doc]
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
me at 5pm ET on this cold December Friday: ladies and gentlemen … the weekend
my editor at 5:01pm: [hops into the Google doc]
my editor at 5:01pm: [hops into the Google doc]