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lisaskwon.bsky.social
stop romanticizing palm trees
@lisaskwon.bsky.social
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luxury is for the people...heaven’s gate is a butterfly door 🏎 💸 • writer with bylines in Teen Vogue, Vulture, Dirt, blah blah • [email protected]
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Jul 21
the great darkening has arrived. read my convo with Sam Bloch about his new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and let us all get shade-pilled 🚫🌴

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It’s Only Getting Hotter | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lisa Kwon talks with Sam Bloch about his new book “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.”
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Jun 12
new substack post on a little songbird, greenwashing the good things out of our lives, the police state

pc: Jabz Gallo (a new friend and founding member of Save the Vireo

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Migratory birds don't know borders the way we obsess over them
...así que todavía estamos dispuestos a seguir hasta la victoria
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yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · Jun 12
this made me cry. rios i was not familiar with your game
A screenshot of a screenshot; on twitter, @lisaskwon posts a screenshot of something she saw on instagram from @rios.imagines, saying "all week i've been thinking about this caption". The image shows riot cops aiming guns at protesters barricaded behind pink park furniture amidst a cloud of tear gas. The caption from @rios.imagines reads: "images of the bright pink civic furniture line that we designed for @grandpark_la "the park for everyone" being used by LA protesters stopped us in our tracks. These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect. we stand in solidarity with our city during moments of civic expression in support of unjust treatment, and we are reminded why we design: for our community, diversity, and a sense of belonging."
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · May 12
new substack post about @ LA Scanner, who many of us relied on for realtime updates during our January wildfires. this is about "cop watchers" who deputize themselves as lone heroes

i enjoyed writing this one. this is the kind of LA stuff ill keep posting

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A Scanner Darkly
On LA Scanner, community surveillance, our January wildfires
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · May 6
i made a substack to chip away at what LA is/isn't + share occasional cultural commentary. my first post is about the Hongdae Boys, made viral in April. Leave Hongdae Boys alone/i wish people would worry on understanding their own desires/ur being racist

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To All the Hongdae Boys I’ve Loved Before
A straight-coded post on desire plus an intro.
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Apr 29
doing my best
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Apr 29
today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. I interviewed poet @cathylinhche.bsky.social about her new book of poetry reflecting on her parents’ work as extras on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and American myth-making of the war impulsemagazine.com/symposium/be...
“Becoming Ghost” with Cathy Linh Che — IMPULSE Magazine
Che’s latest collection of poems looks at the American myth-making that shaped public memory of the Vietnam War.
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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · Apr 26
I’m always interested in work that situates big-time sports in our larger culture.

This seems pretty deft.
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Dec 11
pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...
Astria Suparak On The Politics Of Sport
Astria Suparak speaks about how sports and the arts are not mutually exclusive sources of inquiry and criticism of our political and cultural spheres.
www.thepolisproject.com
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Apr 26
things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻
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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · Apr 25
Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE

“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.”
Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE
“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.” Occidental College students are engaged in a hunger strike to protest heightened policing on cam...
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Apr 26
things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻
lapublicpress.bsky.social
LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · Apr 25
Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE

“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.”
Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE
“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.” Occidental College students are engaged in a hunger strike to protest heightened policing on cam...
lapublicpress.org
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Dec 11
After one of the WILDEST council exchanges in recent memory, with councilmembers accusing each other of making backroom deals (!!!), LA's Olympic wage passes 12-3, guaranteeing LA's tourism workers a minimum wage increase to $30/hour by 2028

My previous story: www.torched.la/the-olympic-...
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Dec 11
writing
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Dec 11
pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...
Astria Suparak On The Politics Of Sport
Astria Suparak speaks about how sports and the arts are not mutually exclusive sources of inquiry and criticism of our political and cultural spheres.
www.thepolisproject.com
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Dec 7
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Dec 4
it be two girls at happy hour going “i can’t cry, i intellectualize my grief”
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Dec 2
when an editor says i came back with strong reporting + writing... im better than you
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Nov 26
waist deep in pow!! surfs up in mammoth
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Nov 26
I will! I’ll share when I do 💗
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Nov 25
i love being inaccessible
snow capped trees in a mountain town on a snowy day more snowy trees and a building dripping with icicles
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Nov 25
thank you!!
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Nov 25
she’s writing about ktown again..a return to form 🤷🏻‍♀️ my essay on sickly housing concept art for cusper magazine open.substack.com/pub/cusperma...
On Housing Concept Art
By Lisa Kwon
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Nov 22
lest we forget that we always have the choice to say "fuck that i aint doing that"
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Nov 20
follow me if you cannot stand simu liu
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Nov 19
it’s maybe the one thing I’ve wanted to write all year but media is !!!frustrating!!! so im planning a screening + discussion with friends instead
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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · Nov 19
i am struggling to find a home for a piece I’d like to write about the psychic damage Koreans have endured ten years after Seth Rogen’s The Interview came out. that film cycle needs a proper critical reappraisal but I don’t think people care to hear how much Obama is at fault for Korean relations!!!
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