Oh yay, It's Ed Lan (in the book, Ed Lim!) It was such a joy to get to write a smart, powerful Chinese-American man who isn't a nerd or a kung fu hero. #LittleFiresEverywhere
This bathroom scene is INTENSE. It's one of the only moments where you see Mia's facade crack in front of Elena. Until now she's done such a good job hiding it. Amazing performances by @kerrywashington@ReeseW and amazing direction by @zingbling. #LittleFiresEverywhere
Such good acting from @JadePettyjohn in this "congratulations" dinner scene. You can see on her face how her understanding of her family and her own privilege has changed. #LittleFiresEverywhere
Gotta feel for the poor photographer who's trapped in this incredibly awkward family moment. #LittleFiresEverywhere
Every sentence Bill says in this episode is true and yet also reads two ways. Damn. #LittleFiresEverywhere
BTS tidbit: The mural behind Izzy during the Cabbage Patch Dolls scene is a reference to a real mural in Shaker Heights High school. #LittleFiresEverywhere
The horse figurine story comes from the book, and I love that it made it onto the screen. #LittleFiresEverywhere
My husband's phone just dinged and without even looking I knew it was his co-worker who is obsessed with @LittleFiresHulu and this makes me SO happy. #LittleFiresEverywhere
Love how Mia gently and kindly, but firmly, explains to Izzy the problems with her Cabbage Patch Dolls art project. Her tenderness toward Izzy is so genuine and warm. #LittleFiresEverywhere
And Mia opening up to Izzy is so powerful. It's the side of Mia most people don't get to see. Which shows you--if you haven't figured it out already--that Mia's apparent hard demeanor is something she does only when she needs to. #LittleFiresEverywhere
As so often happens, Brian is doing so much work in this convo with Lexie explaining race that he shouldn't have to do. But, to be fair, he doesn't know Lexie's whole story either. It's so hard. #LittleFiresEverywhere
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A story: my mom had tuberculosis as a child, in postwar Hong Kong. TB, fyi, is serious and deadly. Her sister also had it and has long-term health issues. My mom recovered, but TB stays dormant in your system for the rest of your life. (1/X)
In early 2020 my mom was prescribed a biological medicine for something unrelated. It suppressed her immune system and reactivated her TB. Fortunately, her doctors screens for this and caught it right away! Because… TB is also super, super infectious. (2/X)
Side note: think about every Victorian novel you’ve read/TV show you’ve seen. You know how there’s always someone coughing up blood and/or wasting away from consumption? THAT is tuberculosis. (3/X)
Guns make us SO FREE that people in Maine are still on lockdown while police hunt for a mass killer armed with an AR-15. We can’t keep living like this.
But yeah, sure, let’s focus on people in drag, LGBTQ+ kids, and books that mention sex of any kind, that’s the REAL danger
People talk about guns and 2A as important for people to protect themselves. At what point will we agree that part of government’s role is to protect residents, because it *shouldn’t* be every man for themselves?
Horrifying but unsurprising findings here, including: misogyny & racism are rampant and intertwined in the inc*l community, that most already are misogynistic before joining, & “in*els degrade all women but women of color are doubly denigrated by incels.” psypost.org/2023/06/analys…
If you’re wondering why I put an asterisk in the previous tweet, it’s because I’m one of the many, many women of color that live rent-free in these dudes’ minds. I still get random comments from them on unrelated tweets, out of the blue.
“Perhaps naively, we did not think that misogyny would be as common as it is. We suspected that misogyny might be the product of a vocal minority, whereas other users were not there to hate women but instead talk about the difficulties with being an inc*l. This was not the case.”
For an interview, I tried to look up the exact date of a particular attack on an elderly Asian American during the pandemic. There were so many similar attacks it took me multiple attempts to find the specific one I was referring to.
Even narrowing my search to
- Asian person stomped
- caught on camera
- midtown Manhattan
- daytime
led to *multiple* cases. Multiple.
That doesn't include the other cases where people were beaten, stabbed, punched, kicked, had acid thrown on them...
...Or the cases not in midtown but in Times Square, Yonkers, Brooklyn. Or the cases not in New York but in every other major city in the US. Or the cases where it wasn't caught on camera.
What I’m getting from these “just stop masking!” pieces is that deep down, some people feel so guilty about not masking that they’d like everyone to stop… so they can stop feeing guilty. 🤔
I think I’ve talked about this before, but in grad school there was this one guy on campus who always wore a bike helmet. All the time, inside and out. In class, walking around. It was a bit unusual, but okay, cool! If he likes wearing a helmet, why not?
It literally makes no difference to anyone else if someone wants to wear a bike helmet 24/7. It would be ridiculous for someone, say, to write a long piece in a national magazine about why this dude doesn’t need to wear a bike helmet… unless they were somehow feeling bad?
So @Harvard just sent out an email that says "COVID is not going away"... and then cancelling all COVID tracing and mitigation measures university wide. Brilliant.
"Students and employees will no longer need to report a positive COVID-19 case to HUHS. Anyone who tests positive will manage their isolation independently by referring to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance."
"COVID-19 has not gone away. ... Meanwhile, individual action remains critical for personal protection." INDIVIDUAL ACTION REMAINS CRITICAL LARGELY BECAUSE NO ONE IS MAKING ANY COLLECTIVE ACTIONS ON A SOCIETAL LEVEL