Storyteller + civic designer ✨| 2022 Joyland Open Borders Fiction Prize | ✍🏼 Editor, Heidi Pitlor Editorial | Previously @PatriotAct @PingChongCo 📺🎭
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In Chiang Mai, I met so many young Chinese people--journalists, social workers, crypto nomads-- teeming with energy + creativity, on how to build new structures of being and community there.
A new diaspora. So excited to share their voices + stories:
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“Suffering in life is essential, she thought, but what a pity it is to suffer the wrong thing.”
New flash fiction up in Gully Magazine!
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The shooting of Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi is an obscenity beyond words.
The targeting and murder of Palestinian journalists MUST now be the subject of independent criminal investigations.
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While investigating @Adobe for deceptive subscription practices, we discovered an executive admitting that hidden early termination fees are “a bit like heroin” for the company.
Subscription tricks and traps have surged as more firms become dependent on subscription-based revenue. It’s up to consumer protection enforcers and lawmakers to stop the abuse.
Do I cancel 4 days early just for the bit? @Adobe This is fucking awesome, I love the way you guys operate, because like, the audacity is insane.
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Phenomenal piece of reporting and writing on Gaza and the collapse of international humanitarian law by Suzy Hansen. Total clarity of purpose.
I started a Substack! Welcome to "With Pleasure" --essays, interviews, and the occasional fiction on art, travel, and pleasure as civics + design.
My first post--visiting the shrine of my ancient philosopher great^22 grandpa (1020-1077) Zhang Zai!
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I wrote this story about international students in America in 2020, and sadly it is all the more relevant today.
From the Joyland archives: "Slow Clap" by @azhang852, a story about ambition, betrayal, and the uneasy path from Shenzhen to America. Selected by @AlexKleeman as the winner of the 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize.
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RIP to the incandescent Alice Notley. There's innumerable things to say about her and her work, but here's something she said in an interview about Ted Berrigan a couple of years ago, and it seems as fitting a tribute as anything
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So this is definitely new territory for both sides.
This is the first time Americans (en masse) are exploring a side of China where China has "home court" media advantage.
And you can tell how this is a bit scary for some Americans, particularly those that see themselves (knowing or subconsciously) in a traditional narrative gatekeeping role.
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Matt Gaetz pick is so crazy people have forgotten the Tulsi Gabbard pick which was so crazy people had forgotten about the Pete Hegseth pick. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
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Israel assassinated farmer Yousef Abu Rabee and his two colleagues today as they were delivering seedlings to his neighbors in the North. He was a true hero, resisting genocide in impossible circumstances. Farewell, my friend. To God we belong and to Him we Return.
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The IDF apparently targeted, very specifically, a meeting of teachers, working to figure out a way to provide education for children in Gaza this year.
Breaking🚨: 11 @UNRWA teachers have been killed today in an airstrike on a UNRWA school in Al-Nusairat Camp
1_Mahmoud Aql
2_Yasser Abu Sharar
3_Shadia Salmi
4_Obaida Ali
5_Iyad Matar
6_Hani Mattar
7_Hussam Hammad
8_Bassam Shaheen
9_Mohammed Zayed
10_Laith Hattab
11_Ayser Qardaya
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To explore this, we're opening up applications for the second round of our HEAL Fellowship -- a year-long program offering U.S journalists $5,000 grants to design solutions reporting projects by, for, & with young people.
Learn more and apply by 10/8!
solutionsjournalism.org/init…
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Co-sign. ATLANTICS is exquisite — ghost story, class critique, doomed romance, and magical realism, all effortlessly interwoven by images of startling power and lyrical beauty
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The @PeriplusCollect app is open. This Fellowship is run on pure love by so many. Honored to serve as a mentor. WOC reach out if you have questions regarding the application.
Psst: The application for the 2025 Periplus Fellowship — offering mentorship and community to writers of color — is now open! 🥳 Learn more and apply by 9/20 at bit.ly/periplusfaq. There's no fee to apply.
Please help spread the word: retweets and other sharing welcome!
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"If [the Chinese people] had the proper leadership, there are no limits on what they could accomplish. They are such kind, generous, capable people. They just gave and gave and gave to me."
-1990 article on Tim Walz after he returned from teaching in Foshan, China. -Star-Herald
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It's been AMAZING to see #socialprescribing getting so much great press lately!
Honored to have my reporting in @BBC today, exploring the story of the resilient caregiver Akeela, whose volunteering prescription saved her life.
Featuring research and insights from @DrZoffness Dr. Ellen Langer, Dr. Stephen Post & more
bbc.co.uk/future/article/202…