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3 Oct, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Why do Fil-Ams account for 4% of nurses, but 25% of COVID nurse deaths? Because America views Filipinx as expendable bodies used to shield "real" Americans from harm. 1/ #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth #FAHM #FAHM2021
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What's depressing is that the lie of the "American Dream" is so enticing that many Filipinx will be lured here thinking they're improving their lives, when really it's just another form of U.S. exploitation. 2/
This American strategy of hiring Filipinx as cheap, expendable labor is long-standing and pervasive. You can find examples in pretty much every industry. 3/3

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11 Oct
Thread: As the discovery of court docs from Bad Art Friend reveal, Celeste Ng leveraged her professional power & networks to undermine Dawn Dorland while also encouraging Sonya Larson to profit off Dorland's content. I suspect Celeste Ng has been doing something similar to me. 1/
Unlike Robert Kolker's NYT piece—which I think did a disservice to the truth by not being chronological—I'm going to do a mostly chronological approach here. So Celeste Ng's name won't show up until a few tweets in. First, I'll need to explain an Asian American issue. 2/
In 2018, I made a comic addressing racism & misogyny in AsAm spaces, asking AsAm men & women to not participate in toxic, bigoted behavior towards each other. At the time, vitriolic online battles were constantly happening between two groups of extremists—and AsAms knew it. 3/
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7 Oct
Thread: As an AsAm creator, I want to talk about how framing the Bad Art Friend story as a white woman vs. AsAm woman fails to account for the ways power & privilege intersect here, & that the people using this framing are harming the AsAm community & don't care that they are. 1/
Sonya Larson got caught plagiarizing. That's a fact. It doesn't matter what she or anyone else thinks about Dawn Dorland—Larson crossed a professional ethical line, & admitted it herself. But the violation of professional ethics likely goes deeper than what's caught on paper. 2/
Sonya Larson's group chat wasn't with "friends," but with fellow writing professionals who have a lot of power in their field. It's hard to believe their distaste for Dorland stopped at socially ignoring her. It's possible they were also blacklisting her before this conflict. 3/
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25 Sep
After 3 years of getting harassed & blacklisted by bigoted Asians, I've come to understand the motivations of why they treat me this way. It's not because they hate my content—it's because they want to steal it. I want to break down their strategy & how they get away with it. 1/
Many Asians who harass me are aspiring artists & writers (it's often written in their bio) with smaller platforms. These Asians—like Roslyn Talusan three years ago—act as foot soldiers, so established Asians in power like Jenn Fang can deny involvement in harassment & slander. 2/
Once the foot soldiers successfully dogpile me with harassment & slander, the established Asians in power use the slander to justify blacklisting me. And it works because these Asians have direct access to massive white-owned media platforms like WaPo, Time, The Cut, NBC, etc. 3/
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24 Sep
I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts from a Black perspective. I think it's important for AsAms to acknowledge how the Asian gender divide isn't just an intra-community issue that only affects us, but also affects the Black community & other groups of color. Thread: 1/
It's important to hold Asian men & other MOC accountable for patriarchal misogyny, but not via rhetoric that invites racist white men to weaponize that accountability & justify their violence against MOC. Same thing with critiquing racist women—it should be done w/o misogyny. 2/
Unfortunately, that's not the current mainstream approach. When Asian men’s misogyny is discussed, it’s frequently blamed on Asianness & not manhood. This gives white men a safe space to reinforce racism against MOC. Here's a recent example. 3/
CW: Anti-Asian & Anti-Black racism
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17 Sep
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/
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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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