yong

Co-Founder of @womenwithpenNFT with @Jinyang_art | Living the literary life through crypto-means

🌈Writer, advocate of meaningful change | Eng PhD candidate

[yong @youngliveshere]

Never really works. Sometimes, writing involves more chopping out than actually writing. Congratulations, you've become a farmer dealing with a weed infestation.

To all my fellow typers, writers, scribers out there, I send my support.
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[yong @youngliveshere]

The process of writing. [thread]

Sometimes, writing is not a linear process. Strike that - writing is NEVER a straightforward process.
Often, when you write, the words never sit as comfortably together as you hoped they would. So you fiddle them about, whittle one and (cont.)

[yong @youngliveshere]

rework another until they stand in a row like docile ducks. Only, oddly enough, when you turn your back on them and come back - it's strange again. And so it goes on like that forever. Writing a few words down, erasing whole sentences that you would love to cram in but (cont.)

[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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39th book is Rebecca Solnit!!
Men explain things to me! exclaims Solnit's famous book. A trailblazer for coining "mansplaining" she has written on an array of topics, indigenous history, walking and social power.
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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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37th book is Julia Kristeva
Blood, bile, gore, vomit, shit. Kristeva talks about the abject to talk about how things are cast off from norms and social rules.

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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

The #utility of #NFTcollections comes from #education of brilliant writers through art. Raise awareness and raise support for @charity!

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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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36th book is Audre Lorde
Lorde stands at the intersection of many liberations groups including civil rights movements, second-wave feminism, and LGBTQ equality. Her writing is powerful and asserts the power of love
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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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34th book is Gertrude Stein
Stein pushed the boarders of modernism in novelistic form. She was among the first in modern history to live openly gay.
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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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35th book is Patricia Highsmith
Creator of the ripley syndrome, Highsmith is known for crafting psychological thrillers. The Price of Salt a rare novel of lesbian relationships that did not end tragically. https://t.co/G9LW16row0

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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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33rd book is Sappho
Sappho trumpted the love between women to both scorn and praise. Though much of her work has been lost, some of her works praised even by Plato and Aristotle have endured the test of time, to be read by us today
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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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32th book is Susan Sontag
Sontag has written extensive essays on an array of topics ranging from, travel to AIDS and philosophy. Both a celebrity and a critic, her works continue to reverberate today.
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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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30th book is Harper Lee
Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird poingently captured racism in the American South. With her first novel she was firmly cemented into the American literary classic cannon.
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[Sarah Mendelsohn @ahitofsarah]

Where are the Black women in web3? I want to support you in several ways. I already see that with the small amount of women in this space, they are predominantly white. Working on a few things and want to help Black women a bigger piece of the crypto pie. Let's connect!

[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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30th book is Hye-seok Na
Na was a pioneering writer, painter and feminist in Korea during the Japanese occupation. Writing against the institution of marriage, Na argues that women too are human.
https://t.co/ieRMz1wF8W
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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

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28th book is Joan Didion
THE writer for many other writers, Didion has inspired many to put pen to paper. Her style and insight is unparalleled in its influence on a wave of literary successors.
https://t.co/UkLcuhJWGE
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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

GM! #NFTdrop
25th book is Zadie Smith!
One of the few writers who can make your side split and brain brighter all in one fell cacophonous swoop. Absolutely recommend.
https://t.co/f595mqwTll

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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

GM! #NFTdrop
26th book is Sandra Cisneros
Cisneros writes for all people, regardless of education, age, race. Her strong writing universalizes the Chicana experience.
https://t.co/bV6RcrvljH

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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

GM! #NFTdrop
27th book is Mary Wollstonecraft!
One of the periods brightest minds, Wollstonecraft was a staunch advocate for the education and social equaity of women.
https://t.co/9yoes9SOTu
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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

GM! We minted new book!
#23. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Capitvating the importance of representation and the imaginative power of stories and narratives, Adichie stresses the danger of stereotypes, the single story.
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[Women with Pen | MINTING NOW (3/8~) @WomenwithPenNFT]

Neither women nor workers were committed to a country. They turned away from the patriotism of national states because they had found larger loyalties.