Update: I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a message from my sister. As expected, it’s been absolutely brutal. They shot into her house. And are in her street. The military is shooting randomly at any sign of life, trying to scare people into the streets 1/ In the streets, they will be arrested, shot or killed. My sister said someone in her neighborhood was killed and two of her friends were arrested. She is still safe but they are lying on the floor to avoid being seen because the military is still outside in the street. 😢 2/

Let me tell you, I am declaring being done w/ the shame spiral & apologizing for my #AsianAmerican identity. There's a lot of work to do as a community, but we can't do that work, if we can't acknowledge that shame is part of white supremacy that keeps us in our place (thread) 1/ First, I want to shout out Black feminist & linguistic scholars, including the fantastic @BlackGazePod convo w/ Dr. @aprilbakerbell. @DrPorcher & @dr_s_bertrand, your unapologetic stance that Blackness will save Black people reminds me to stand in my own truth 2/

I am finally watching/listening to this week's @BlackGazePod conversation w/ Dr. @aprilbakerbell. From the intro, the idea of internalizing linguistic oppression. Whew! Thank you, @DrPorcher & @dr_s_bertrand for this! Also, I see you @DrPorcher & @dr_s_bertrand. Knowing you, I could hear in your voices how hard it was to be present in this space with #BreonnaTaylor on your hearts & minds. Thank you for standing for #Blacklinguisticjustice in the midst of it all ❤️

Ironically, my TEDx talk on humanizing pedagogies comes out on a day when I had a real human moment. Sometimes we let our frustrations get the best of us & make assumptions about people that we need to keep to ourselves, but let slip out. 1/ In those most human of moments, when we are not at our best, we need to take responsibility for our words and actions, then show grace to ourselves. Grace doesn't make the words go away or excuse the impact, but continuing to stew doesn't help either. 2/

Y'all do not understand how much I missed @BlackGazePod! 1/3 of the way through Episode 1 of Season 2 -- Protect Black Womxn. @dr_s_bertrand & @DrPorcher bringing it again! Also, shout out to @MauricePorcher for the sound effects. The claps though 👏👏👏 1/ Also, got me wondering, has @DrPorcher given me a nickname? Do I need to rethink our relationship? 🤔 @BlackGazePod #BlackGazePodcast 2/

I didn't want to distract from Scholar Strike the last two days, so I didn't post the #blogpost I wrote yesterday, but it actually works out because I blogged today too & they are pretty nice companion pieces. Sharing them here with you 1/ "I believe in myself. I believe in the healing power of reflection and writing. I am learning, whose voices to listen to, when to listen and how to listen. I am learning how to make space for pain I don’t think I deserve. I am learning & growing & it is beautiful but painful." 2/

Okay, so I had thought I’d live tweet read @mdawriter’s Becoming a Teacher but the writing is so good, I am just letting myself be carried away by the story of Ms. Hall through which so much about the teaching journey can be learned 1/ That being said, I am tweeting this quote from p. 75, “Preparation and self-education underlie all good teaching. It is a cycle of forward thinking that never really stops.” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Amen. 2/

Drs. Linton & Hollins remind us that we must confront our responsibility as educators for the society in which we live and the schools in which we have created #antiracistteachered Dr. Hollins notes that racist curriculum produces this racist society -- we need to look inside the profession & push back to challenge racism in our society #antiracistteachered

Q2 of #antiracistteachered webinar -- What does this moment teach us about where Teacher Education programs need to go? Dr. Linton reminds us that we have to come into teacher education as elders, center community, center caring, understand one another, see one another's strengths & make it work for children #antiracistteachered

I love that @Mahea818 begins by acknowledging Dr. Etta Hollins & her work. She then moves to talk about the importance of transparency, looking at who we are as a field & as individual programs. What is our program identity & how does it inform our work? #antiracistteachered @Mahea818 As programs, we have to start by declaring who we are & then embodying those principles within our programs, considering the contexts in which we work & communities we serve #antiracistteachered

Question 1 of the CA-Name #antiracistteachered webinar is: How do we best prepare teachers for anti-racist teaching? Dr. Etta Hollins focuses on: ACCESS -- preparing teachers to provide access for underserved, underrepresented groups. She notes this as a powerful charge of classroom teachers & teacher educators #antiracistteachered

Dr. Grace Yeh speaks about the importance of knowing our histories as #AsianAmericans, but also the necessity of responsibility & care for other communities of color & indigenous peoples. #Ethnicstudies I also love learning about Dr. Yeh and her work, like the "Filipino Love Stories" project to highlight immigrant lives on the central coast: sanluisobispo.com/news/local/art…

Grateful to learn from @DrDorindaCA @soutomanning @ilana_horn Manka Varghese & Jamy Stillman in the #DivKAntiracist seminar on "Centering Justice and Anti-Racism in Teacher Education" So appreciative of the grounding in radical love and Black/ WOC feminisms during this #DivKAntiracist by both @DrDorindaCA & @soutomanning as we look towards a racially just world that does not yet exist.

A thread on my day, highlighting humanity & what a "fun" adventure my life can be:
I'm on a focus group Zoom about a project at 10:30am when the power suddenly cuts off. I log on to the Zoom via phone & finish the call. 1/ At 11am, I leave my "office" (i.e. bedroom) to investigate the situation. [Note: I am proud bc I scheduled 11-12 for a lunch break before the webinar I am giving] My husband has checked our fuses, in & outside of the house & called the utilities company. Nothing. 2/

My sister-friend @pinayism w/ some profound truth in #fightthetower: “Even w/ this laundry list & CV, which can be misconstrued as a woman that can do it all w/ ease & w/o challenges & obstacles, I still combat my own internalized guilt...” 1/2 “...a questioning of whether I am doing enough & what I am sacrificing in order to accomplish it all.” (p. 351) Yes and amen. Every day.

I debated sharing this, but think transparency is important. In a recent anonymous student evaluation, a student said that I came off as "pathetic" for making an off-handed comment about my awkwardness being turned into a meme, while I was online teaching during COVID (a thread) The student prefaced the comment w/ "this is going to come off as harsher than I mean it," and ended it w/ how awkward it made the class feel when I said it.

Comments like this are unnecessary, dehumanizing and hurtful. 2/

I just started this book & I can tell it is 🔥🔥🔥So excites to read about #AsianAmerican women scholars’ resistance AND renewal in the academy. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for ❤️ Will probably tweet to this thread thoughts as I’m reading. My first is how much I appreciate that the book begins w/ a women of color in academia manifesto that embodies #solidarity and notions of #collectiveresistance #fightthetower

On my Facebook memories, it showed that 10 years ago today, I crossed the stage to be hooded, on my way to complete my PhD that summer. I didn't have an academic job & went back to my 8th grade classroom to teach. 1/ Later that year, I struggled with major health issues which led to an extended hospitalization & missing almost 6 weeks of the school year. It took me 3 job cycles to find an academic position (yr 1: 1 on-campus interview; yr 2: nothing; yr 3: 1 phone offer/1 on-campus) 2/

Y’all better! I see you ⁦@DrPorcher⁩ & ⁦@dr_s_bertrand⁩! ❤️💕Thank you for sharing your #sistercircle w/ us & thank you to Black feminist scholars leading the way in their work & embodiment of Sister Circles in Academia. Check this out! anchor.fm/black-gaze/epi… Also, I just want to shout out my own #AsianAmerican sister circles. First, my original Asian American sister whose handbills on an escalator drew me into this whole journey of identity in many ways, @jungkimphd & who, in true sister fashion, will fight me for books 📚😂