Lucia Cheng

she/they 🏳️‍🌈 || features journalist 🌟|| Grinnell `23 || @thesandb || @SmithsonianMag 2022 BOHS intern and @aajavoices fellow

[e.jin (they/them) @edotjin]

have been wanting to do more reading in community with other writers, so I’m putting together a little book club 📚

[Lucia Cheng @luciascheng]

@zimranjacob Interested!

[Jacob Geller @yacobg42]

My god

[Mariana Dale (she/her) @mariana_dale]

I left Iowa with a heart full of pride for all the reporters, especially my mentee @marinerotristo– Good storytellers & wonderful humans who will shape their community in many ways.

A big ty to @IowaPublicRadio for hosting us!
#NPRNextGenRadio

[Carolyn Burt @CarolynBurt_]

If you have the means, please donate to @bokchoy_baobei
Their car was broken into and their laptop and photo equipment was stolen.

[Lucia Cheng @luciascheng]

Everyone tells me they’re always ready to leave Iowa - but Denver Foote (mayor hopeful!) wants to stay and make the state a better place. Read and listen to their story, with thanks to #nprnextgen!

https://t.co/CHlGa3MJRz

[Lucia Cheng @luciascheng]

@GehrDani And I couldn’t have done it without my lovely mentor Dani!!! 💖💖

[Dani Gehr @GehrDani]

I had a blast working on the inaugural IPR Next Gen Radio project last week! I got to work with the incredible @luciascheng and am so proud of what they were able to create: https://t.co/kFc42JYl8a

[trash jones @jzux]

uh oh

[Lucia Cheng @luciascheng]

considering saying dead-ass-pora instead of diaspora. trying to decide if it makes sense or if it is another instance of forcing a pun

[Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo]

In my @ElectricLit debut, I write about "Beef"'s incisive criticism of the humiliating hollowness in pursuing white adjacency, and the irony of its creators doing exactly that in their handling of the David Choe scandal.

https://t.co/HSED1Jj9AB

[Lucia Cheng @luciascheng]

@bokchoy_baobei tauruses unite and rise up against the system!!!!

[Lucia Cheng @luciascheng]

my cat has officially adopted me as her emotional support human

[Lucia Cheng @luciascheng]

to my lactose intolerant friends: what’s the best brand of lactaid? i would like to eat mac and cheese and drink my coffee in peace

[nhi @onenhillion]

words I want to hear (1/2)

[meghan @banhmigoddess]

Shifting from a “i have to do this” to “i get to do this” mindset has been very life changing, especially when it comes to work & mundane chores that I dread. Very often i think about Thich Nhat Hanh’s passage on washing the dishes and this accompanying essay from Haley Nahman:

[nerve haver @nervehaver]

history books never prepared me for how surreal it is to have to continue with the minutiae of daily life no matter how cataclysmic the news gets, how twisted the fabric of society becomes, or how monstrously those around us behave

[Lucia Cheng @luciascheng]

currently reading i hotel by karen tei yamashita and this book is probably the one that will radicalize me

[Rebecca Aguilar (on Blue Sky & LinkedIn) @RebeccaAguilar]

Calling all journalists! If you are part of the @NPR layoffs, here are more than 90 newsrooms that have openings. If anyone knows of a job opening, let me know on this thread I update this list often. Plz RT
#NPRLayoffs #NPRcuts #CallingAllJournalists
https://t.co/AlLwg13BpQ

[Andrea Hall @WriteitHall]

Local journalists are often seen as lesser. Universities tout their grads who go to large pubs & imply that those who go to small pubs are their weaker students. But local journalism is HARD. It is writing 2-3 stories a day. And taking the photos. And designing it. And editing it