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17 Sep, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Thread: In 2018, I made a comic addressing racism & misogyny in AsAm spaces & asked AsAm men & women to not participate in toxic, bigoted behavior towards each other. Since then, Jenn Fang (Reappropriate) has enabled harassment towards me & helped slander me as an "MRAsian." 1/ ImageImage
I don't allow reposts of my comics in part because it's a frequent strategy of Nazis to warp the messaging that implicates them & instead slander me. So to see fellow AsAms do it is disgusting. Yet that's what Jenn Fang & her harasser friends did to my comic Reconciliasian. 2/
I made a sincere effort to tackle a complex, painful topic to encourage empathy & maturity. Jenn Fang & Heath Wong didn't reciprocate that sincerity. They reposted my comic & left out its full analysis—which is disingenuous at best & malicious at worst. 3/
Jenn Fang has been careful to avoid calling me an "MRAsian" & lets her harasser friends do it for her—but that changed today. In her thread about my comic, she directly links me to MRAs—even though I explicitly condemn MRA ideology & am harmed by it. 4/
White male Nazis & MRAs target me online all the time. In fact, they created an entire "Know Your Meme" page dedicated to denigrating my looks, simulating me getting sexual assaulted, & mocking the anti-bigotry message of my comics. So to call me one of them is truly vile. 5/
There's no excuse for how Jenn Fang has encouraged harassers to slander me as an "MRAsian" over the past few years & blacklist me in progressive spaces. So not only do I get harassed by Nazis, I'm left vulnerable because she cuts off sources of support. 6/
When I posted Reconciliasian, I was approached by Jessica Prois at HuffPost—who said she "loved it"—to expand on it in an essay. I turned it down. Based on the harassment I received & how my comic & words were twisted, I realized the community wasn't ready. It still isn't. 7/7

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18 Aug
For AsAms who feel inclined to defend Roslyn Talusan from white people, she was a primary participant in inciting a harassment campaign against me for making AsAm comics. She helped sabotage my Mulan essay, only to later publish her own on the same topic (and get paid for it). 1/
So not only did she help spread slander against me in order to permanently destroy my career and make sure no one in marginalized spaces would platform me, but she financially benefited from the harm she caused. The irony is she said a Filipino shouldn't write about Mulan. 2/
I also had to turn down an offer of rep from a literary agent because of a connection with her. I honestly don't know the full extent of how many resources & opportunities I lost because of her & her toxic harasser friends, but even with the ones I can identify, it's a lot. 3/
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31 May
#APAHM Thread: #StopAsianHate is meaningless until we acknowledge white men as the architects of anti-Asian racism, & the blueprints they use to divide the Asian community & sabotage progress. 1/

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Understanding anti-Asian racism means connecting its history in the US with its history in Asia, instead of treating them separately. US imperialism, war, & colonization abroad directly informs the racism AsAms experience because the goal is the same: divide, conquer, & kill. 2/
White men used war to split Korea & Vietnam in two, & divide AsAms the same way. One blueprint of the U.S.'s domestic anti-Asian strategy is the Mixed Marriage Policy of 1942-1943. Implemented during Japanese Internment, it gave certain Asians special exemptions to leave camp. 3/
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Thread: When you think of Mormons, you probably think of whiteness—and you'd be correct, since 93% are white. What you don't think of is Filipinx.

And yet, for two years, I was a Mormon. 1/

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Before this, I grew up in a loosely Catholic upbringing and rarely went to church. But after my dad left the U.S. Navy and our family, we moved back to the U.S. and lived with cousins who were Mormons. There, we were regularly visited by missionaries, and eventually converted. 2/
Much like being a Navy brat, converting was less of a choice & more of a package family deal. I just went along with it to make everyone happy. But what I didn't know was that going from kind-of-Catholic to Mormon was stepping out of the kiddie pool & going in the deep end. 3/
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Thread: For Fil-Ams & other people of color, the "American Dream" often means toiling away just to obtain a small piece of the spoils that were violently ripped away from your community. 1/

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Second-gen AsAms like me grow up oblivious about our own histories because the US education system purposely withholds info about it, & our parents try to outrun their trauma by never sharing their experiences, instead pushing their children toward an assimilation sleepwalk. 2/
AsAms realize too late we've inherited a deal with the devil we never agreed to: we can keep our language, but only if we speak it privately. Our food, if we serve it. Our culture, if it upholds the illusion of America as a benevolent melting pot that saved us from ourselves. 3/
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Thread: The reason America hates wearing a mask is because it prefers showing its true face. 1/

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For some, this spike in anti-Asian racism comes as a surprise or seems like it's the first time it's happening. But that's because the Model Minority Myth—created by white people—tricked both white people and POC into thinking Asianness is a privilege. 2/
But history shows what America really thinks. The Page Act of 1875 legally codified Asian women as immoral, disease-carrying prostitutes in order to ban them from the US & extended that ban to Asian men with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. These sentiments have never left. 3/
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25 Jun 20
Is the message we want to send to Asian & Black communities: "It's okay to partner with a violent white racist & anyone who criticizes that is a bad person"? Everyone involved in this article should feel ashamed for absolving Kellie Chauvin & minimizing George Floyd's death. 1/
If you're POC & elect to partner with a white person, regardless of gender, you are burdened with the fact that your partner is racist by default & you will have to push them out of it—otherwise they will suck you into their racism & use you to shield them from accountability. 2/
We know 63% of white men & 53% of white women voted for Trump. So why should Chauvin, a white male cop with a history of 17 prior complaints & another fatal shooting, get the benefit of the doubt that he showed no prior signs to his wife Kellie that he was violently racist? 3/
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