Unsolicited opinion from a black man: everything that's wrong with race in America is three white men starting a conversation "about race" and having it immediately degenerate into an argument about "law and order."

A teenage TikTok-er pointed out that there were no ASL interpreters at the debate last night, which means ~600,000 deaf Americans were not afforded the chance to participate in their democracy. I can't stop thinking about it. How can that STILL be an oversight in 2020?

My first review is published in collaboration with Brittany Nguyen on Sawako Nakayasu 's SOME GIRLS WALK INTO THE COUNTRY THEY ARE FROM. It's a fun little heart-to-heart exchange about identities, cultures, translations, and so much more. Check it out! columbiajournal.org/a-deconstructi…

So glad that I watched Vicious before GOT... would have been traumatized by Ramsay otherwise 😂

The entry fee for translation submissions is waived to support and promote more translated works!! Sawako Nakayasu will be our judge 🙌 Please spread the word, and let’s make the first Columbia Journal translation winter contest absolutely fun and amazing!! 💛

At a time when anti-Asian hate crimes and bias are the worst we've witnessed in decades, the last thing we need is a United States Senator engaging in generalizations so racist and ignorant they sound like they could have been pulled from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

Our 2020 Winter Contest is *EXTENDED* through Dec. 31st! Send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation! Winners will be published in Issue 59 and win $500 cash. $15 entry fee. Check out our fabulous judges and full submission guidelines here! columbiajournal.org/open-for-submi…

ICYMI, congratulations to our 2020 Winter Contest winners and runners-up! We are so excited about these artists and thanks to everyone who submitted! *We'd like to correct a previous version of this graphic; our winner in Translation is K. Gabriela D'Addario, @ga8rie1a !

Odelia Lu and I will be reading our translations of Chinese poems (by Li Qingzhao and Chen Nianxi) and today at 3pm EST for @SantJordiNYC ! Hop in for a discussion & live chat: youtu.be/U1tmVIn4YG8

NOW ON: What can we learn from dialogues with other translators of the same language? In this discussion, translators Kevin Wang and Odelia Lu will read and discuss their differing approaches to translating ancient and contemporary Chinese poetry.

Submit your poetry translations to this wonderful magazine!! Non.Plus is a team of passionate, lovely people who advocate for the unknown, the surprising, and the underrepresented ❤️

The launch of Queer Time: A Special Notebook of Taiwanese Tongzhi Literature / 酷兒時間：台灣同志文學 aaww-nyc.bsky.social is Monday, July 26 at 7pm. It's been a great pleasure for me to translate Lin Hsin-hui's short story “Peeling Off." Come and hear an excerpt of it! aaww.org/curation/launc…

“What is it about this country that makes it so that to hold something as our own is to have won?” - Kat Chow, from Seeing Ghosts

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