This book traveled with friends and family from Seoul to New York to Ohio to London to meet me 🤍

There’s nothing like seeing a couple Shakespeare statues, reading a Bernard Shaw play, and crying to a song from Wicked to remind a person what they went to undergrad for

"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Be open to a world where you may not

It's sad to see Asian students being used to gut Affirmative Action. A reminder that the Model Minority Myth is a tool of white supremacy, not a road to acceptance.

There is nothing more humbling than having to speak in a zoom call with a group of complete strangers!! My entire limbs are vibrating and I feel so human

It is very important to do better than referring to the Asian American community as a monolith in statements like this, because plenty of Asian students from less privileged backgrounds will also be hurt by this decision.

We need to completely rethink how art and culture have been taught in schools for the past twenty years, so that the focus is no longer on analyzing texts but on cultivating joy and appreciation. Thread:

Seeing tourism ads in the UK is so wild, like why is this black cab telling me to visit New Jersey

Hi. I’m trying to raise funds for my top surgery. As of this morning, about 35% of my goal has been met. I’m beyond grateful for your support, and I still need your help to get me closer to this procedure. Can you help me spread the word? Thank you! gofund.me/f39217a4

Oppenheimer built the bomb that killed my great-grandmother while her grandsons were drafted into the US army and the govt imprisoned her kids. If you're into moody great man biopics, I guess that's cool, but I personally really don't care how he felt while he was doing it.

This note at the end of Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s essay in the NYT is theeeee most badass queen shit, I LOVE HER

A gift in the wake of my impending dissertation deadline 😌

An Appalachian school district’s daring experiment in economic integration. trib.al/GM72trf

Having an existential crisis about my dissertation two weeks after turning it in like... open.substack.com/pub/mailenguye…

⚡️NEW: Mailé Nguyen ’s ESEA Lit Fest dispatch — in tandem with our latest Wasafiri 116 - Shorelines: South East Asia and the Littoral — explores the burgeoning of the ESEA term & community, and the event’s gestures towards new ESEA futurities. Read here: wasafiri.org/article/esea-l…

AANHPI Heritage Month is coming to an end. For many of us, celebrating is a no-brainer. But others have complicated feelings about the month of May. As a Vietnamese adoptee, writer Mailé Nguyen examines the question of who has the right to this month. joysauce.com/who-has-a-righ…