Julia Carrie Wong

Is anyone else experiencing debilitating amounts of dread?

real nightmare scenario huh

eh

This institution was named by an act of Congress, which remains in effect.

ok but what if it’s less of a hill to die on and more of an inflatable novelty hill with flashing lights and a boingy boingy sound

I am a woman of peace, she said, gritting her teeth

tbh we’re gonna need a lot of dumb dumb fart hammers

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

Unity Mitford

just realized that I’m like that kid from that movie but instead of seeing dead people everywhere I see race science

WaPo push alert: “A Polarized Nation Yesterday, 8:02 PM U.S. was the only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people”

Are we polarized? Or are we realistic?

I was sooo cynical and yet somehow not even close to cynical enough

The most scathing critics of Silicon Valley circa 2014 barely scratched the surface of the treachery these companies have shown.

Providing your products to criminal regimes planning to use them to violate human rights on a massive scale is a choice!

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.

When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”

Video + interview with her and her daughter:

A cream Shiba Inu stands on a park bench on the Brooklyn promenade. It’s overcast.

Georgie surveys her queendom

ABC News: “Subway service disrupted on many lines due to various issues during evening rush hour”

I don’t know why but I really like this headline

words filled a book
bombs filled a school gymnasium

“Slurs filled a chat” is a beaut

there’s a wasian Instagram guy who makes little videos where he identifies a “wasian of the week” celebrity and then looks it up and finds out they’re just Jewish and it keeps happening and ngl it’s pretty funny

It’s funny cause he was actually talking about “consciousness hygiene” (clinical, sterile) but in my mind it ended up all lush and leafy, possibly bc I was thinking about his writing about food?

I mean, I fully intend to and feel weirdly grateful to Michael Pollan for touching off the train of thought. I’m filling my mind with vines and lush foliage!

I skimmed an article about Michael Pollan’s new book and thought he was comparing consciousness to a garden and proceeded to get very into the idea of cultivating my consciousness garden, only to realize that I fully misread a word or seven and kinda made that whole thing up

‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr pr...

It was such a pleasure to interview attorney Bryan Stevenson about the photography of Gordon Parks as he curates a new showing in London.

His vivid and intimate colour images from 1956, showing the daily disgrace of the segregated South, remain extremely pertinent to this day:

My parents called me and my siblings Eurasian when we were growing up. And my sister and I liked it bc Armistead Maupin wrote that all Eurasians are beautiful in tales of a city. I’ve only come across wasian in online spaces but it does seem to have legs with the younguns

satire

Right? Like wasian is obviously a derivative term that evolved out of blasian, no? I feel strongly that blasian well predates wasian

Oooh thank you!!!

Penn Announces Wasian Studies Major The major’s inaugural class would matriculate in Fall 2027, with students taking courses such as “MUSC 4673: Traditional Wasian Music from Laufey to Olivia Rodrigo” and “COMM 0180: How To Announce Tha...

I need this but fr fr where are my wasian studies professors

fwiw I am continuing to solicit interesting/good/deranged takes/tiktoks/studies about wasians/hapas/eurasians/multiracial asians/etc

send them my way please my brain is already broken but not yet my spirit