Bennington MFA. PEN America Emerging Voices fellow. VONA and Tin House Summer Workshops alum. #Multiethnic memoirist. #Educator by day. Random tweets at night.
It's sad to see Asian students being used to gut Affirmative Action. A reminder that the Model Minority Myth is a tool of white supremacy, not a road to acceptance.
My first full weekend post teaching complete. I can’t stop eating and peeing. Probably because my body needs nutrition and I can finally pee when I want. I don’t have to wait till lunch or after school in huge line.
I keep watching videos of what people can fit into bags that they carry, because I want to buy a new bag. And, thinking: Dudes don’t carry the world — a pharmacy — with them.
I just want to fit my wallet, sunglasses, reading glasses, a book and journal.
Not 5 kinds of wipes
I had to tell one student who was annoyed at me that I care and want them to pass. That’s why I was on them. Then, the student relaxed and got to work.
Fun week of almost bullying kids into passing my class. Like I literally have to tell them which assignments to do during finals block so I don't have to fail them. If I didn't, they'd just take the L. How did we get here?
My students wrote kick-ass micro memoirs. So impressed. Some claimed that they didn’t know what to do. One wrote a beautiful, painful braided essay that wowed me to tears. So grateful to see such young talent. Wish I could have them as students for one more year
@Geniusbastard My friend growing up and I had terrible/hysterical laughs. My sister went with us to see one of the Ghostbuster movies and my sister told us after that she would never go see a funny movie with us again.
Congrats to Natalie Mislang Mann MFA '21 (@natmismann)! Her essay, "Too Loud to Sleep," appears in a new anthology, ESSENTIAL VOICES: A COVID-19 Anthology from @WVUPRESS. https://t.co/RkXkVyuMjp
Official AWP "Unshuttered" release party, 3/10 from
5 to 9 pm, Northwest African-American Museum, Seattle. Open wine bar, yummy food (shrimp and okra beignets!), private museum access & guest readers @kwamedawes, @poetess151, @Dalai_Mama_ & @theferocity! Please retweet!