Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈

Educator, writer, 👩🏻‍🏫, veteran, editor @WrathBT | They/Them | She/Her | Skin sheath full of scorpions 🦂

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

⚡️ “Letters to My Country That She Will Never Read” Essays on #NineEleven #ForeverWar #Afghanistan https://t.co/T402pGx9OU

[Disruption Network Lab @disruptberlin]

"The man told him not to be foolish, it was common practice for fighters--indeed a common practice among soldiers everywhere--to make spoons of their bodies and nestle close to share heat." @Drewspeak
#TRANSITIONING
Live: https://t.co/XUxj6w6OU5

[worms cited @christapeterso]

One of the cis women featured in the BBC’s “are some trans women sexually predatory?” piece is a serial rapist.

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

“I fear that like your defeat in Vietnam, the humiliation you feel now will overshadow your victims’ humanity. We Vietnamese were never people to you. Nor were Afghans. We were caricatures, numbers, props for political rhetoric, but never people.” #Afganistan #Vietnam

[The Nation @thenation]

From Vietnam to Afghanistan—and Back: An Offering https://t.co/4S0vgeceJ9

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

As we move toward the 20th anniversary of #NineEleven, I ask that we consider how our pain has shaped these many long years at war. I ask that we consider the consequences that will play out in our memories and homes for much longer.

[The Cut @TheCut]

“I fear that like an abuser, America will take this pain only to forge it into a more hateful weapon. I fear that the dissonance of our defeats will drive us to choose force over compassion,” writes @Drewspeak https://t.co/9Xi7aIH2sL

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

"I shouldn’t have been surprised when America sent me to Afghanistan to win hearts and minds only to compel me to hurt Afghans the way Americans hurt my family decades before." @Drewspeak writes https://t.co/rvi6YFE1bC

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

⁦⁦@WrathBT⁩ ran a #flashfiction piece I wrote about insane love in the age of unending war:
"On Their Lips, the Name of God" ⁩ https://t.co/2MRktZe62m

[CNAS @CNASdc]

TOMORROW, 12:00pm ET: In honor of Pride Month, CNAS' Military, Veterans, and Society Program will host a LGBTQ+ Veteran Author Panel, ft @ericfanning & a discussion moderated by Richard Brookshire w/ @Drewspeak, @emily_emiller, & @BrynnTannehill. Register: https://t.co/51UUA0JzkW

[Mark Galarrita @MarkGalarrita]

Writer and friend Drew Pham (@Drewspeak) is teaching a class on trauma and memory. More info and sign up here: https://t.co/Cu3MwEO2wg

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

Registration link is up for my summer workshop on writing trauma and memory, with @CleaverMagazine!

https://t.co/0UC0AZZnfQ

[Kayla M. Williams @kwilliams101]

Registration now open for a writing workshop with @Drewspeak:
https://t.co/9xt1YH4ooQ

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/6xni3LUPJm

[Poetic Theater Productions @poetictheater]

We’ll see you tonight at 7pm EST for our Veteran Voices: The Interview Sessions with @Drewspeak Reserve your tickets now! https://t.co/fukP6qhDLG

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

@hanbae Omg tysm! 🙏🙏🙏

[Incoming Radio @IncomingRadio]

We have had wonderful instructors this Masterclass series: @kathyfish, @TurnerBriturn3, Abby E. Murray, and @Drewspeak. WOW! Incoming/ @Sosayweallsd and our students are so grateful.

[Beyond Their Limits of Longing @orthveillon]

Drew Pham next up on WWrite Veterans Day Countback! Nov.20 WWrite reposts, honors vets+WWI memory. Today: How to Remember Your Ancestors’ Names
https://t.co/TkQbRLL7JW
@Drewspeak
@tracycrow1
@WrathBT
@WW1CC
@wherrypilgrim

#WWI #VeteransDay2020

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

#TransWeekOfAwareness

[She Extends @68tilinfinity]

Very Urgent & Time Sensitive:
Nova is a trans sex worker without stable housing who is several hours behind paying for the hotel room she's staying in. Please RT & donate if you're able to ASAP so she doesn't lose her room in the middle of a pandemic

https://t.co/yROzUmei9d

[Nancy Stroer - Author of Playing Army @Nancy_Stroer]

Support the troops! My Twitter is only for reading/writing, so here's a list of bookish military types. Big shoutout goes to @Drewspeak & their online literary journal @WrathBT. READ IT to dispel your stereotypes about the intellectual lives of soldiers:

https://t.co/s7p4Us7tS0

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

Thanks to @EliErlick for for taking these lovely photos and helping me realize this vision.

[Drew Pham | ACAB | ⚧ 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 @Drewspeak]

#VeteransDay is complicated for me—I feel pride & shame & sadness & joy & relief & angst all at once. In the war I fought, I was my own insurgent, my traitor, my liberator, & the woman I’d camouflaged from sight. What can I do but give voice to a self I’d silenced for so long?