EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL, AND I'M NOT AFRAID by Yao Xiao 要烧 perfectly captures the feelings of a young, queer immigrant searching for connection, belonging, and identity in America.

Get it now ⤵️
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New personal essay on Electric Literature! I wrote about Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, my history with literature and my thoughts on writing in English as an immigrant. electricliterature.com/i-wanted-to-wr…

I wrote about American Born Chinese, both the original comic (which I read when I was 17) and the recent adaptation by Disney+. As a cartoonist and a writer, this means a lot to me. Thank you Literary Hub!

Thank you eileen chengyin chow for reading my alien little zine!

Not sure if this is the best place to get this out into the world but just as an FYI—I work as a freelance transcriptionist! If anyone wants to offload hit me up: [email protected]

Wake up and it's AAPI Month and also May Day:
too many things between those two things

Every day I buy
a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1
because May loves pineapple
and May 1 is my birthday.
I tell myself
that if she doesn’t come back
by the time I’ve bought 30 cans,
then our love will expire too

Chungking Express 重慶森林
dir. Wong Kar Wai

So sad about the news of Catapult shuttering. This was the first piece I published on Catapult with editor @Allisen_ who allowed me space to explore serious topics with comics.

This week's Autostraddle jigsaw puzzle features original art from your fave Yao Xiao 要烧! bit.ly/3JJnSFI

My goal for 2023: make a writing schedule and sticking to it, even though the idea of a set schedule has sent me kicking and crying 😇

My day job (Lambda Literary, queer lit nonprofit) is hiring for a bunch of positions. Applications open through Jan 30. Salaries range $60k-$110k and include health and dental. Mostly remote-friendly roles. Threading the things. 🧵

When I got this 'art approval' from the place screening printing our tenth anniversary edition of our Yao Xiao 要烧
Tote bag (on recycled cotton for the first time!) I knew I had to put them up for sale ASAP.
we'll start shipping these 1/23. LIMITED STOCK.
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Sp proud to be a part of Menachem Luchins since its opening...Happy 10 year anniversary!

Warms my heart to see EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL, AND I'M NOT AFRAID in conversations way beyond pub date!

😍

We are shadows to one another.

-Marina Tsvetaeva, from 'Poem of the End' (trans. Elaine Feinstein) #everynightapoem #fragment

[Keiichi Ichikawa, Tokyo train]

I LOVE Pashmina. If you haven't gotten a copy, be the 100,001!

Anyone also reading The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie? This collection has given me so many new words to describe the psychological fallout of The Cultural Revolution in the most empathetic way possible, it's amazing