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The pioneers of Hong Kong's LGBT movement are largely in jail or targets of Beijing. LegCo is rife with bigotry, most notably in the form of Junius Ho. And next year, Hong Kong will become the first Asian city to host the Gay Games. by Theodora Yu washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…

“We will now clearly state that this sort of intimidation will stop at us. We will not transmit that fear through our compliance.” - HK's Tiananmen vigil organizer, going down fighting nytimes.com/2021/09/08/wor…

My op ed in today’s SCMP: despite zero covid in Hong Kong, children have not been allowed to resume normal school day - and EDB seems to have no plan scmp.com/comment/opinio…

Complete humans rights abuse

In lockdown for 18 months, Singapore’s migrant workers yearn for freedom. nytimes.com/2021/09/29/wor…

"Every year, students from the University of Hong Kong have cleaned the pillar, paying special attention to the words engraved at the bottom: 'The old cannot kill the young forever.'"nytimes.com/2021/11/24/opi…

Removed in the middle of the night… bbc.com/news/world-asi…

7-day average daily Covid deaths per 1 million population, latest figures: Hong Kong 🇭🇰 8.15 United States 🇺🇸 5.23 Japan 🇯🇵 1.87 UK 🇬🇧 1.80 Canada 🇨🇦 1.79 Australia 🇦🇺 1.36 Singapore 🇸🇬 1.36

One of the fundamentally broken things about Hong Kong's current Covid situation is that it has neither the scale/labor force/compliance of the mainland to do a draconian lockdown, nor the democratic accountability to ensure balanced, reasonable public health measures.

That’s about the shape of it

Psyched to have an essay in LETTER TO A STRANGER, edited by Colleen Kinder of Off Assignment, out today from Algonquin Books!

Perhaps my favorite review yet. The Associated Press, you had me at your title, "Humanity crystallized in ‘Letter to a Stranger’". Shout-outs to the work of Jeremy B. Jones is at Bluesky Sarah Perry and Emily Matchar embedded in the review--so well-deserved! 🥂

The novel that’s been bouncing around my brain for years will be published in 2024!

Emily's nonfiction book HOMEWARD BOUND was the first book I ever sold as an agent. More than a decade letter, she sent me her novel!

Riveting preschool pickup line reading from Leslie Jamison

Spring Break southern-midwestern tour!

Thank you Emily Matchar for picking up the conversation like we never left it, as we’ve done for two decades ✨

You will LOVE Emily Matchar’s In the Shadow of the Greenbrier! It’s truly a saga of what it means to be a foreigner in any land at any time — even in your own family. I’m so honored I got to bring it to life in the audiobook! Thank you Molly LoRe @livmacsmith Penguin Random House Audio 🎧 📚 🐧