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16 Sep, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Please take the time to read this incredibly in-depth and thorough investigative essay by ⁦@aarontmak⁩ on the MRAsian subculture on Reddit. I sincerely appreciate the attention Aaron took to this story. slate.com/technology/202…
So many women and feminists I know have experienced devastating online harassment by MRAsians, and the injury is only compounded by the relative invisibility of these attacks by a mainstream & progressive Asian America that nonetheless routinely ignores that this is happening.
Please read this essay to get a sense of the depths of this harassment. It is high time our community finally acknowledge what AsAm women have had to endure for literally decades, and that we finally do something to challenge this ongoing pattern of harassment in our midst.
One thing that never quite gets communicated in descriptions of this harassment is how truly harmful these attacks can be. Attackers organize campaigns to try to deplatform women, doxxing them, get them thrown out of school or fired for being a feminist.
Feminists in the crosshairs of these attacks face real-world danger, never mind the mental and emotional toll of having to deal with an unceasing avalanche of rape and death threats.
This shit has been going on for decades, at least as long as the internet has been around. Most every prominent AsAm women has had to figure out how to survive it, while every AsAm of prominence with the privilege of not having to deal with it basically just ignores the problem.
That’s why I’m so glad @aarontmak wrote this. Thank you for even just treating this issue with seriousness and acknowledging that this is happening.

Now, my AsAm fam, what’s it gonna take for us to finally put a stop to this type of coordinated anti-feminist harassment?
Also, and I’m sad I have to say this, but stay safe Aaron. I know what this essay will probably open you up to so thank you for writing this anyways. ❤️
Same sentiment to @eileenxhuang. Thank you so much for continuing to share your story here, and for your broader activism. ❤️

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2 Sep
So talking a bit more about the nitty gritty of this TX law. It’s truly, truly, truly scary.

Note: I don’t have a law degree. My husband does, but not from TX. This is just us talking about the law as we understand it.
First things first: this is popularly being referred to as a 6-week abortion ban. Effectively yes, but it’s actually a ban on any abortion after a fetal “heartbeat” is detected. Typically, that occurs at 6 weeks, but can be detected earlier.
For my first pregnancy, for example, which was accomplished with incredible fertility clinic support (and so far and above more than one’s typical prenatal screenings), we detected a “heartbeat” at 5 weeks to confirm my pregnancy was present.
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This is devastating blow against reproductive rights that will affect millions. | Texas 6-week abortion ban takes effect after Supreme Court inaction - CNN Politics apple.news/ApvqBgGHYRKWUD…
I have been pregnant twice in my life, both times very intentionally because I required fertility assistance. unlike most pregnant people - I was monitoring my fertility and pregnancy status very closely.

Even so, my pregnancies were still only confirmed at ~6 weeks.
I point this out to say that even under circumstances of actively watching my pregnancy status closely, I didn’t know I had a viable pregnancy until 6 weeks, at about the time when this ban would mean that in TX I would have no reproductive rights options.
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Exclusively for Patreon supporters, I posted a short video sharing some thoughts about why food features so heavily in Asian American politics. So much of how we have experienced racism, and also how we create identity, comes out through the medium of food.
When people appropriate our food, it’s not really just about the food. It’s about how Asian Americans have used our traditional food to connect with and celebrate one another, and to create comfort and warmth on the face of racism that treats us as cold and foreign.
Food is one of the few ways that we have historically had to build and define Asian American identity for ourselves. Appropriating our food while ignoring those politics is especially disrespectful because food became politicized as a direct reaction to appropriation and erasure.
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18 Aug
As a newly post-partum parent , one of the crappier things to deal with is public bathroom pumping.
I tweeted recently about the tribulations of back-to-work pumping. Just repeating for emphasis how much public bathroom pumping sucks, and how we need to make the cultural shift towards widely-available, functional lactation rooms.
The public bathroom I use in a pinch is a barely-trafficked single-stall one with lots of space in the stall far from the toilet where it’s just empty wall.

Still, I’m sitting on the floor of a public bathroom and using my battery power source, bc there is no outlet or chair.
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22 Mar
If you’re learning about Asian American women and feminism, and our politics, perhaps for the first time right now, here are a few books off my shelf you could check out. A short thread.
Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminist Breathe Fire, edited by Sonia Shah. 1997.
YELL-Oh Girls! edited by Vickie Nam. 2001.
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21 Mar
I didn’t catch @MeetThePress this morning. Did this really happen like this, and if so, did no one in guest booking think there might be a problem here?
I’m not asking for Asian Americans to be tokenized, but it certainly seems to me that if you’re going to have a panel on anti-Asian racism in this moment, you might want to hear perspectives from an Asian American (esp one doing work around this issue.)
Also please don’t tell me you couldn’t find someone. There are so many great activists and scholars in our community who’ve been doing work around racial justice issues for decades — many of them women. It wouldn’t be hard to book someone, you just have to try.
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