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27 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Met with my teaching co-instructor this morning. I haven’t co-coordinated and co-taught a full course in awhile and had been feeling nervous. But my co-instructor spent a few minutes praising me for my natural energy in the class, and how it draws from my activism experience.
It felt so great to be recognized for how my years working with young activists has helped me cultivate an interest in listening to students, and encouraging them to share themselves in this discussion space we’re building together.
Sufficed to say, I’m looking forward to this teaching adventure this quarter, especially bc I’m super excited about this curriculum my co-instructor and I have developed together.
We’re also implementing a lot of new pedagogical strategies into our classroom I’ve dreamed of having a chance to try out. These strategies aim to challenge hierarchal teacher-student power dynamics and I cannot wait to see how they work in practice.

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16 Sep
A lot of talk about MRAsians on Twitter today, and one thing that is regaining attention is how a lot of the harassment AsAm women/non-binary folks receive centers on the accusation that they “only date white men”.
In addition to reading @aarontmak’s @Slate piece, you can also get a primer on this from @pronounced_ing’s essay for @TheCut:

thecut.com/2018/10/when-a…
Long story short, this is the frequently visited well for MRAsian harassment. For these harassers, it often begins and ends with trying to shame an AsAm woman for a real (or perceived) white partner.
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16 Sep
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.
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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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1 Sep
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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21 Aug
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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