May Ngo 吴玉美 🇰🇭 🥔 🥟

Writes @kyd_magazine | @SydReviewBooks | @Meanjin | @pleiadesmag | @asianwomenwrite mentee | @Tin_House wkshop '18 '21. Former academic. I would like a pension.

[May Ngo 吴玉美 🇰🇭 🥔 🥟 @mayngo2]

30 April marks the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. My father was there. For @dia_CRITICS, I wrote a piece about my father’s memories, Cambodia and memorials. Thanks to @ericnguyenisok for editorial support!
https://t.co/GA3pJf7ztU

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Mothers who are mothering without being mothered by their own mother are living a completely different reality than mothers who are being mothered while they mother.

[May Ngo 吴玉美 🇰🇭 🥔 🥟 @mayngo2]

@her_eloquence Linked a couple of mine :) Zadie Smith and Elizabeth Strout

[May Ngo 吴玉美 🇰🇭 🥔 🥟 @mayngo2]

@her_eloquence https://t.co/GZbM7gdlva

[May Ngo 吴玉美 🇰🇭 🥔 🥟 @mayngo2]

@her_eloquence https://t.co/GciKw3QbzC

[sgb @sadgirlyboss]

“happy to hop on a call” i would actually rather join a 14th century monastery

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone except:

-the people who think pregnancy is “easy”
-the ones telling mothers to stop complaining that motherhood is hard
-invisible labor and mental load deniers
-and the people who would gladly force women to have more children while offering little support once those children arrive

We love our children but Motherhood is work. Pregnancy is work. Recovery is work. Keeping families afloat is work. Too often, “women are so strong” is code for “we’re comfortable letting them suffer.”

Calling suffering “strength” is a convenient way to avoid actually supporting women.

[sarah hagi @KindaHagi]

re: smoking discourse… tweeted this before, but this passage from nickel and dimed where barbara ehrenreich realizes why her coworkers at a diner smoke so much really made sense to me…

[katie @katefeetie]

people ask “why aren’t women having babies???” as if we can’t see the way you people treat moms who bring their babies on planes or take them to daycare or have busy careers or get divorced or live in small apartments or don’t breastfeed or buy fast food or

[Zadig @piebyfour]

The West is obsessed with Chernobyl, churning out award-winning series about a 1986 disaster that killed 54 people on impact.
Yet they remain silent on Bhopal 1984, where an American-owned factory leaked gas, killing 3,500+ people instantly.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

My coworker and I were talking about capitalism, and he said, “The Earth is a resort for like 500 rich people, and the rest of us are just the staff.” Now I can’t unsee it.

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

At the same time, it’s crucial to move beyond this racial framing. None of the societies in Europe’s East can be reduced to ‘Slavic’, they’ve always been more diverse and many people have belonged in them: the Roma, Jews, Crimean Tatars, Vietnamese families, many immigrants… 1/2

[Mallory @MalloryMovies]

cinema is not simply an art form, it is a mechanical-industrial process powered by laborers. The medium cannot be divorced from the labor of the millions of human beings that have delivered it into the world. There is no cinema divorced from industrial labor anywhere on earth

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

they did the meme

[Zaf @Buenozaf]

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never set foot in Coachella again! I'm so proud of them #Strokeschella

[meadowsweet @umbersorrow]

does anyone know of any intellectual, academic, novelist, or anyone else who has published a book who has included in their acknowledgments section (or anywhere else in writing) thanks to a nanny (or anyone else) for taking care of their children while they wrote the book?

[nope @truhtnac]

From 2015. The number of independently wealthy writers pretending they bootstrapped their careers is now no doubt higher.

“Sponsored” by my husband: Why it’s a problem that writers never talk about where their money comes from, by @annbauerwriter
https://t.co/FtkUbfrpln

[cph @cathyparkhong]

I have respect for Dewitt’s work but for $175,000, I would figure out a way to access WiFi. The video requirement is also minimal. Now if she has a disability, that’s on wc to accommodate her. But if not, I’m not going to shed tears for a grown woman who made her decision.

[May Ngo 吴玉美 🇰🇭 🥔 🥟 @mayngo2]

Some writers are such wankers

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

*DPhil not PhD

[edna bonhomme, phd @jacobinoire]

Really loved this piece's candid take on class divisions among writers and, more specifically, how they shape one's literary legitimacy. There is the survival work of the working class, and the inherited capital that finances the lives of the upper class. https://t.co/HwbPgVv23h