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Don’t miss this year’s Vancouver Book Award ceremony at #VWF2024! This FREE event on Oct 25 will include readings and the announcement of the 2024 Book Award Winner. ASL interpretation provided. City of Vancouver Vancouver Public Library writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event…

Are you an ally? Or just a piece of shit?

Yesterday I was walking to a lunch date with a friend, carrying an orchid that I was planning in giving her. A man driving past slowed down and yelled, "Thanksgiving is over, baby!" I mean, I wasn't carrying a turkey, you gormless weirdo.

I've just realized my dog is basically Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.

My latest for nwasianweekly: The story of their lives: Book recommendations. nwasianweekly.com/2024/10/the-st… Jen Sookfong Lee #ChristinaVo #PeterBacho

Happy birthday Sylvia

My new story, "Jawbone Lake," is in the second issue of Camel! A story of a single lake in upstate New York from the ice age thru the present and all the way to the mushroom-glimpsed future, "Jawbone Lake" has settler colonialism, the 60s, private beaches, and poorly run airbnbs.

I started to cry last night at dinner while telling my person about how my mother and grandmother grew and preserved mustard greens, if you want to know the level of tenderness I am walking around with right now.

This iconic photo is now part of Iranian history, capturing the deep frustration of women with the regime—a powerful statement against repression.

Up to here with "women care about abortion, men care about 'the economy.'" Reproductive justice, balancing family and work, choice in life stage is "the economy," esp in a country w near-zero mat leave. Most women who have abortions are mothers. They know "the economy" deeply.

Now more than ever the books matter. The challenging ones, the ones that make you uncomfortable, the uplifting ones, the ones that tell you a story you have never heard before. Books matter. Art matters. Don't let them take those away from us.

I get why people are posting inspirational memes right now but truly let me wallow in the darkness and despair for a hot half second.

Ugh will I ever leave this place? Anyway find me in the sky, use my regular name, love you, still grieving what we used to have here.