moving day! ciao boston ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼- it’s been real (& your winters treacherous)

1 yr ago moving from Oakland ➡️Boston - baby’s got a fuller set of chompers now

know it’s a day I can’t salvage when I’ve wasted the morning researching customizable pens, baby sunscreen & lisbon 🕳 or maybe it’s self-sabotage, a way to defer frustration when words on the page deceive

wish I could claim optimism & say my syllabi are half-full but, nope, empty and blank as can be!

an 8-yr old’s critique of a Rice Krispies box: “how come there are no women and no [elves] of color?”

finally out in the world, 2 years later…the slow time of publishing is hard for someone whose patience is learned, not natural

landed among extraordinary humans 😍

not sure how an entire semester slipped away between tweets but i’m so excited for this final class / e-zine project that students are leading & organizing 💗

mla is around the corner & i’m just thinking about where to eat…that paper will write itself? 😳

mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meeti… from atmospheric river to aesthetics…thinking about impacts of racialization on breath (oh & outdated affiliated institution)

encino man moment: haven’t been on bart for 2 years & only way to get a single issue ticket is with a digital wallet now. & what is that?

like many of you, scrambling to finish syllabi for the spring… any must-reads & cultural/material texts that could find its way into a class about Asian American foodways? if I could have it my way, we’d just go out to eat every class 🤤

this! ❤️ (pardon some typos which I am just catching now) aastumd.squarespace.com/aast498g-fall-…

after the last of us, I will never look at enoki mushrooms the same 🧟‍♀️

even my immigrant Korean mother is watching BEEF 🥩 (she’s most perplexed by the frequency of f-bombs)

Led by my Asian American Foodways students! Cooking demo & food drive if you’re in the area…🫶🏼

everything in my life changed when “i am not enough for academia” got flipped to “academia is not enough for me”

holding in memory Celine Navarro

For those who’d like to share in our rage ✊💕 aast.umd.edu/aast498g-fall-…

✌🏼 put..help me find you where the light is softer @ jencho.bsky.social