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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 15d

Please note the CWs

You stuck your slurs into my skin
when you tried to silence me, afraid of

my aberration.

Read more of "Your Remains are My Religion" by @sarendipitous.bsky.social in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...

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Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 13d

Check out my novelette! Fun fact: I started writing it because someone once told me that writing can't work as "a piece of art or entertainment as well as an awareness platform."

ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · 14d

New: Definition by Sarena Tien!

Adeline Song is on the run. The US government has started to hunt down people like her. But when Adeline crosses paths with mechanic Finley Reyes, she must decide whether she will let other people continue to define her, or whether she will finally define herself.

Definition | ELJ Editions

Adeline Song is on the run. The US government has started to hunt down people like her. But when Adeline crosses paths with mechanic Finley Reyes, she must decide whether she will let other people con...

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Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 21d

I had my students do trivia on nuclear testing in the Pacific, and one group chose the team name Mushroom Clouds 🤣

Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 21d

Honored to have been nominated for Best of the Net. Read my poem here: phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...

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Delegate Katrina Callsen @katrinacallsen.com · 26d

Here is the Virginia Department of Health standing order that can used to get a pharmacy based covid vaccine for those 65+ or 18-64 with at least one underlying condition. Your pharmacy should have a copy as well.

www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uplo...

www.vdh.virginia.gov

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Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 28d

The pharmacist said my name was pretty and wrote it in calligraphy

Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 29d

Roasted chestnuts for the first time and I how have I missed out on this deliciousness for this long

Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 29d

Before every class, I play a song by a Francophone singer from the country/region we're studying. Yesterday, I chose Naïka's "Belle, Belle!" and a student said the song was fire and added it to his playlist

Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Sep 7

This morning, I found out there's a chestnut tree across the road from me and this is the tastiest accidental discovery

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Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Sep 5

Last fall, @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social published my poem "A Doctoral Education." This fall, they featured me in .Writers.on.Writing., where I discuss my piece and my writing:

www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/writersonwri...

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Sep 4

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector

As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

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Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Sep 4

I had my students rewrite a Mbembe quote as a tweet, and I'm still laughing at what they wrote. Some examples:

Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Aug 28

My favorite part of handwritten reflection journals is seeing all the students' cute misspellings, AI could never

Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Aug 22

I was blessed with the best bus ride ever. Her owner said it’s highly unusual for her to take to strangers, but she just lay down under my seat and stayed there the whole time

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Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thrilled to have one of my favorite poems republished in All My Relations! Check out the issue and my poem "Your Remains are My Religion"

The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 15

All My Relations, Vol 9 also features poetry by Audrey T. Carroll, Dane Lyn, @jpthorn.bsky.social, Leo Rose Rodriguez, Neen Ramos, @sarendipitous.bsky.social‬, and X. Y. Check all the pieces out at www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...

All My Relations Issues

All My Relations Volume 6 is an art and lit, online and printed magazine, exploring the theme of resistance, open to BIPOC, gender variant, and disabled creatives only.

www.talbot-heindl.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 6

Like I needed another reason to avoid Home Depot and Lowes.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · Aug 6

“Have these companies given thought about how this data might put their customers in danger, whether it's cops stalking their exes or aggressive ICE agents targeting yard workers? Probably not." www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops

Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

www.404media.co

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 6

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement

“Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

www.advocate.com

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Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Jul 31

I finally wrote an essay on my experience in my PhD program: panoramajournal.org/issues/issue...

Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Jul 22

Had the cutest interaction with a student who was so excited to discover that I’m also Chinese American

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · Jul 17

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

After many requests, I finally accessed what turned out to be the saddest and smallest library I have ever seen. I was surprised to find that the books were not categorized by author or Dewey number but size. I tried to find a book before my allotted time ended and picked a cooking book; the second time I got a novel. I began flipping through the pages in search of solace, as books have always been my safe haven. To my surprise, I discovered handwritten notes scattered throughout the book, dated and written by various detainees over time. These messages were filled with reminders of hope, strength, and the assurance that this, too, shall pass. Tears welled up in my eyes as I read their heartfelt expressions. It’s incredible how human beings can find ways to uplift each other, transcending time, space, and borders if they want to and if they choose to. I continued to turn the pages, holding on to the hope of finding brighter moments in this terrifying situation—all thanks to the kindness of people I had never met.

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Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Jul 18

Have discovered my favorite line from a book, The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation by Binh Tu Tran

Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Jul 3

Crocheted a scene from Howl’s Moving Castle!

Pattern: wellsaidane.wixsite.com/crochet/patt...

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · Jun 29

“He’s easily bruising. He has bone pain. He looks pale .… He has also lost his appetite …. His mom is terrified that these are symptoms that his leukemia situation might be deteriorating.”

A 6-year-old with cancer is languishing in a U.S. detention camp. Who will answer for this cruelty?

Chron.com @chron.com · Jun 28

“He’s pale. He’s bruising. He cries every night.”

A detained Texas family says their son’s health is deteriorating: bit.ly/4ldATHp

Family sues over US detention in what may be first challenge to courthouse arrests involving kids

A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center.

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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · Jun 27

More than 100 UVA faculty (and counting) have signed an open letter condemning political interference in the university. The forced installation of a new president under these circumstances will cast a shadow on teaching and research. Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open Letter on Academic Freedom at UVA

Open Letter from Members of the Faculty of the University of Virginia In light of reporting that officials at the Department of Justice are pressuring University of Virginia President Jim Ryan to re...

docs.google.com

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Sarena T (田玮炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · Jun 27

If DEI is such a problem, tell me why, when I met with one of my Asian advisees, they wanted to know what kind of Asian I am before we bonded over wanting to learn how to speak our mother tongues fluently.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 27

for the record, just over 12 percent of students at uva are black or hispanic. 12 percent are asian. 5 percent identify as "multi-ethnic." about 57 percent of students are white. this is what Trump considers to be "DEI" run amok.