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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 9d

🏃‍♀️ I'm doing the NYC Marathon and trying to beat my worst marathon time of 10 hours 37 minutes. All money raised all goes to build a hospital in Kenya.

Please support me in doing something great (building hospital) and dumb (a marathon with legs that don't run)!

shoe4africa.org/cause/kristi...

Kristina Wong

<p class="" data-start="0" data-end="107">I’m running (staggering through) the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon for SHOE4AFRICA!</p> <p cl ...

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 9d

We don’t need scary Halloween decor. We have news headlines.

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 14d

If I bring a Costco size bottles of Tylenol and peanuts to a schoolyard, am I actually an armed terrorist?

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 15d

👩‍🎓 I’m a guest at Harvard these next two days. Ever heard of it? It’s like a more prestigious Devry University.

My schedule:

calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/kristi...

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 16d

The easiest way to make food insecurity go away is to stop measuring it. Sort of like if you stop Covid testing, nobody is getting it… that you know of.

Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity

www.nytimes.com

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 17d

THE AUDIENCES IN BOSTON are LOVING THIS SHOW! One last show today at 2pm. "JUSTICE" gets 2 for 1 tix.

🎟 artsemerson.org/events/food-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLgP...

Boston, do not miss Food Bank Influencer!

YouTube video by ArtsEmerson

www.youtube.com

Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 19d

🧦 Boston! Four shows starting tonight at Arts Emerson’s Paramount Center.

KRISTINA WONG, #FoodBankInfluencer

The world’s only solo karaoke musical about the emergencyfood system!!

🚨Day of rush tix avail and two for one tix with code JUSTICE

🎟️ artsemerson.org

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 20d

Do not stop joking. If we stop joking then the fascists win.

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 20d

Did America peak at Obama?

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 20d

I must be a homicidal maniac because I watched the Jimmy Kimmel monologue and saw nothing wrong.

youtu.be/-j3YdxNSzTk?...

Trump Grieves By Talking About $200 Million Ballroom, MAGA Hits New Lows & Guillermo at the Emmys

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 20d

Jimmy Kimmel should have done the right thing and earnestly suggest all homeless people be euthanized instead.

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 21d

Senate hearings are places where some people get to yell at other people who they will never change.

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 22d

Am I late to the joke that Brian Kilmeade’s new name should be “Brian Killdahomeless-Whoopssorry”. ?

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 26d

i'm at the YMCA, but didn't want to out myself as a Christian gym nationalist in this political climate.

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 26d

This Charlie Kirk assassination must be serious because New Yorkers haven't yet put on the Tyler Robinson look-a-like contest yet.

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 27d

If there were no guns Charlie Kirk would be alive and just have a little bit of spit to wipe off his neck.

But you know, freedom rules I guess.

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 27d

How you going to blame the "liberal rhetoric" for Charlie Kirk's murder when we hate guns and can barely get our shit together to use our Yoga studio memberships?

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 27d

Utah sounds so lawless. Send in the National Guard.

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 27d

Actually just arrest all the students and all residents. Everyone is suspicious!

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 27d

The violence that there are open carry laws on college campuses or something else?

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 27d

In order to find Charlie Kirk’s killer, they should arrest any and all white men in Utah. You can never be too careful. Everyone is a suspect.

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · 27d

What’s Joe Biden’s alibi? Where was he when Charlie Kirk was assassinated?

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Reposted by Kristina Wong

KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · Sep 6

🎧 Listen to the podcast!

Performance artist @kristinawong.bsky.social, community organizer Jocelyn Jackson &
@tufts.edu's Kareem Khubchandani spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the underrated power of aunties and how they approach the nuclear family unit and systems of care.

🔗:

How Aunties Power Our World

KQED's Forum · Episode

buff.ly

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · Sep 7

We loved hearing your stories about the aunties and tias in your life, and what you love about being an auntie. 💞

Listen to @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social's conversation with @kristinawong.bsky.social, community organizer Jocelyn Jackson & professor Kareem Khubchandani wherever you get your podcasts.

White text on a dark blue background reads "My partner and I are aunties to many family and chosen family niblings and it is one of the great joys of our lives. I hope as they grow up and head out into the world, they know how deeply we love them and will always be there for them. My personal favorite thing about being an auntie is having art making and art viewing adventures. Forum listener on Discord.”

White text on a dark blue background reads, "I wanted to talk about my Aunt Linda, my only aunt. She was born in 1950, a breach birth - and she was developmentally disabled for her short life (she died at age 40). But she was the sweetest, kindest person in my entire family. She was savant-like in that she would finish my Oma's sentences, always remembering the name of someone, or their address or phone number or how old they were. In a quite chaotic family, she taught me a lot about patience and calm. Scott, Forum listener."

White text on a dark blue background reads, "I’d like to shout out my Titi Carmen, my grandmother’s sister. She had a pregnancy early in her marriage that did not go well and wasn’t able to have children after that. She was a close aunt to my mother and her brother, and a second grandmother to me and my sisters. We lived within walking distance from her, so we spent a lot of time over at her place. She was the one who taught us things like how to play cards and told us all the funny stories of her and my grandmother’s childhood. Adriana, Forum listener.”

White text on a dark blue background reads, "It's crucial to have tías who model different womanhood from your mother. My tías are fun - smoking weed, laughing uproariously, making me special cookies I mentioned once loving, painting murals, shopping with my sister. Now, my sister is the ultimate fun tía to my children- famous and glamorous to many as La Doña, but she was my firstborn's first babysitter when she was right out of college, and now a reason for absolute excitement, joy, and reverence in both my kids whom she both spoils and sets straight. Rene, Forum listener."

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Kristina Wong @kristinawong.bsky.social · Sep 5

FRIDAY MORNING 9am!

I will be live on the air on KQED talking about the power of Aunties!

www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

How Aunties Power Our World | KQED

We’ll talk with artists, scholars and community organizers about the underrated power of aunties, and the ways in which they actively redefine the nuclear family unit and our systems of care.

www.kqed.org

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