as @lawjsharma oh so aptly observed, we are all just interlopers in a real life @parksandrec episode 🙃 —— a friendly reminder from your friendly neighborhood book nerd to channel your inner Katniss, Frodo, Tris, Dregs Club member—or any BA leading hero of your choice, really—and #WearAMask to protect yourself and the world during this global pandemic. —— video by @lawjsharma, caption created via @mixcaptions.
I am proud to be a multiracial azn. My existence is valid despite what YA literature, Hollywood, and Rainbow Rowell would like to lead you to believe. I am tired of having to keep shouting into a void about how harmful RR’s racist words in Eleanor & Park are—esp to many of us multiracial azns who spend more time in microaggressive environments during our developmental years than healthy, safe, loving, accepting ones. When there are so many other own voices projects, even her own personal projects, that could be adapted over problematic text. But I will. // Earlier this morning, I was made aware via twitter that RR is actively restricting any comments on her Instagram posts that even remotely reference any sort of critique or request to comment on the racist nature of her text and her intentions regarding this film. Actions speak louder than words, of which there are none. Her actions are those of valid critic censure. Frankly, it’s disgusting. This has dug up the graves of painful past traumas with family infighting, and the entirety of my schooling from k through college. Many of my friends and peers feel similar exhaustion and ptsd from continuously having to engage with this text and this exact conversation to be witnessed and acknowledged. Listen to us. Amplify us. Stop erasing us. We exist. We are full human beings with our own unique cultures we’ve dedicated our entire lives to. Affirm THEM. Not the yt person’s fantasies about them. Please help us stop this cycle of pain. ————— STOP CO-OPTING IDENTITY STORIES THAT AREN’T YOUR OWN TO TELL & AMPLIFY OWN VOICES, HOLLYWOOD PUBLISHING. ————— going forward, i will (with permission) be amplifying threads that educate on E&P, including personal accounts of how this text can and has harmed and hurt people with content warning face out images, keeping a keen eye on my mental health. // for now, i hope you enjoy this carousel of cute photos of me from my smoll multiracial azn human self til now, ‘cause we erase messages of hate and ugliness with messages of joy and beauty. thnx for re-activating me, racists 🙃✌︎ // { cross-posted on @tediously_brief }.
konbanwa book nerds 💕 it’s my bestie, podcast partner-in-gab, and fellow book nerd @bigscreenbooks aka @kaitnicolefoster’s birthday today!!! kait had just graduated from college and started to work for @traderjoes full time while planning to save up to move to italy in the fall after moving back home to norcal. then covid-19 hit and she’s been kicking butt as an essential worker servicing her community, as well as continuing to innovate amazing ways to help her family’s amazing wine lounge @platinumwine weather the new covid-19 normal. she is such an incredible soul that i am so continuously blessed to get to call a friend and a cohost. i couldn’t imagine my life without my cancerian heart ♥️ love you so much, kait ♋️ hope you had the best birthday today, enjoying life, love, and joy. you deserve it all 💫 everyone be sure to go wish kait a happy birthday 🎂🎉🎁 (ps. sailor moon is a cancer too!) ————————— *edit created using @canonusa @lightroom @picsart. blues, pinks, and purples are how i see kait’s aura full of love, healing, truth, integrity, self-knowledge, and wisdom 🤍
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aloha book nerds 💚 i has this post cued for a different caption yesterday, but i decided to start a spontaneous read-a-thon Live series where i’m going to hop on IG Live for an hour a day, picking different organizations that i am passionate about to highlight, with a primary focus on educational bbipoc, nbpoc, lgbtqia , young femmes, mental health, anti-bullying, suicide prevention instead. they won’t be at any set time, basically just whenever. they’ll be logged and saved in a “spontaneous read-a-thons” series over in my IGTV tab, like little hour long saved live-action lo-fi study music youtube streaming channels, but here at @travelingbooknerds it will be a live-action lo-fi reading music stream, complete with you very own customizable asian girl reading with headphones on as her pet animal familiar hangs out close by 🙃. ———————— yesterday i read the first half of Never Play Piggy from @kellyoxford’s When You Find Out The World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments, about summer camp, expectations, and how to survive when you realize your reality and your fantasy are not one in the same. it’s poignant, funny, charming, relatable, heart warming, distressing, simultaneously both validating and mildly triggering all at once, and just an all around experience that made me physically react as i read it, which is always the biggest indicator that i am all in on my reading experience. so excited to finish reading it later, hopefully mid-afternoon 😌 high key currently juggling around 6 reads over here atm like a career academic so hoping scheduling in daily pleasure reading helps 🙃. ——————— @blackgirlscode is working to “increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. To provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040.” [souce: blackgirlscode.com]. ———————— *q: what are you currently reading?
aloha book nerds 💚 i has this post cued for a different caption yesterday, but i decided to start a spontaneous read-a-thon Live series where i’m going to hop on IG Live for an hour a day, picking different organizations that i am passionate about to highlight, with a primary focus on educational bbipoc, nbpoc, lgbtqia , young femmes, mental health, anti-bullying, suicide prevention instead. they won’t be at any set time, basically just whenever. they’ll be logged and saved in a “spontaneous read-a-thons” series over in my IGTV tab, like little hour long saved live-action lo-fi study music youtube streaming channels, but here at @travelingbooknerds it will be a live-action lo-fi reading music stream, complete with you very own customizable asian girl reading with headphones on as her pet animal familiar hangs out close by 🙃. ———————— yesterday i read the first half of Never Play Piggy from @kellyoxford’s When You Find Out The World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments, about summer camp, expectations, and how to survive when you realize your reality and your fantasy are not one in the same. it’s poignant, funny, charming, relatable, heart warming, distressing, simultaneously both validating and mildly triggering all at once, and just an all around experience that made me physically react as i read it, which is always the biggest indicator that i am all in on my reading experience. so excited to finish reading it later, hopefully mid-afternoon 😌 high key currently juggling around 6 reads over here atm like a career academic so hoping scheduling in daily pleasure reading helps 🙃. ——————— @blackgirlscode is working to “increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. To provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040.” [souce: blackgirlscode.com]. ———————— *q: what are you currently reading?
aloha book nerds 💚 i has this post cued for a different caption yesterday, but i decided to start a spontaneous read-a-thon Live series where i’m going to hop on IG Live for an hour a day, picking different organizations that i am passionate about to highlight, with a primary focus on educational bbipoc, nbpoc, lgbtqia , young femmes, mental health, anti-bullying, suicide prevention instead. they won’t be at any set time, basically just whenever. they’ll be logged and saved in a “spontaneous read-a-thons” series over in my IGTV tab, like little hour long saved live-action lo-fi study music youtube streaming channels, but here at @travelingbooknerds it will be a live-action lo-fi reading music stream, complete with you very own customizable asian girl reading with headphones on as her pet animal familiar hangs out close by 🙃. ———————— yesterday i read the first half of Never Play Piggy from @kellyoxford’s When You Find Out The World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments, about summer camp, expectations, and how to survive when you realize your reality and your fantasy are not one in the same. it’s poignant, funny, charming, relatable, heart warming, distressing, simultaneously both validating and mildly triggering all at once, and just an all around experience that made me physically react as i read it, which is always the biggest indicator that i am all in on my reading experience. so excited to finish reading it later, hopefully mid-afternoon 😌 high key currently juggling around 6 reads over here atm like a career academic so hoping scheduling in daily pleasure reading helps 🙃. ——————— @blackgirlscode is working to “increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. To provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040.” [souce: blackgirlscode.com]. ———————— *q: what are you currently reading?
aloha book nerds 💚 i has this post cued for a different caption yesterday, but i decided to start a spontaneous read-a-thon Live series where i’m going to hop on IG Live for an hour a day, picking different organizations that i am passionate about to highlight, with a primary focus on educational bbipoc, nbpoc, lgbtqia , young femmes, mental health, anti-bullying, suicide prevention instead. they won’t be at any set time, basically just whenever. they’ll be logged and saved in a “spontaneous read-a-thons” series over in my IGTV tab, like little hour long saved live-action lo-fi study music youtube streaming channels, but here at @travelingbooknerds it will be a live-action lo-fi reading music stream, complete with you very own customizable asian girl reading with headphones on as her pet animal familiar hangs out close by 🙃. ———————— yesterday i read the first half of Never Play Piggy from @kellyoxford’s When You Find Out The World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments, about summer camp, expectations, and how to survive when you realize your reality and your fantasy are not one in the same. it’s poignant, funny, charming, relatable, heart warming, distressing, simultaneously both validating and mildly triggering all at once, and just an all around experience that made me physically react as i read it, which is always the biggest indicator that i am all in on my reading experience. so excited to finish reading it later, hopefully mid-afternoon 😌 high key currently juggling around 6 reads over here atm like a career academic so hoping scheduling in daily pleasure reading helps 🙃. ——————— @blackgirlscode is working to “increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. To provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040.” [souce: blackgirlscode.com]. ———————— *q: what are you currently reading?
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aloha book nerds 🌙 i was going to read a book over the last two days but my diabetic immunocompromised mom tripped and fell, she thought she fractured her rib, so we had to brave a trip to cedars urgent care. was not the best experience, caretaking a parent alone and finally getting to the hospital. got shamed repeatedly for not thinking to ice her rib upon being informed of said injury nor giving her tylenol (our cvs has been sold out since end of feb) within the 5 minutes of my finding out about her injury, feeding her, making sure she took her insulin, and walking her to the hospital. the important thing is it was not a fracture, just aggravated her old healed one from when she tripped on a rocky beach in hawaii 10 years ago. but life happens. sometimes you lose track of time. sometimes life causes you to have to adjust and readjust. and if things are important to you, you have to *make* time for it. because you’ll never just *find* the time—not for me anymore, anyway, now that my mom is out of commission for a bit. that’s where this idea came to me. being a book blogger, i read—a lot! i know how hard to make time to sit and read without any distractions or getting pulled away to do something else really quickly, which ends up taking more time than expected. so i want to start doing spontaneous read-a-thons to raise money for different awesome educational, bipoc, nbpoc, lgbtqia orgs i care about while also hopefully inspiring people to incorporate more spontaneous reading breaks in their every day life. i’m going to try to commit to 1 hour of reading in the place of 1 hour of mindless scrolling every day. i don’t know if i’ll post every hour-long stream to feed, but i feel like committing to this will keep me accountable. we’ll see how this goes. hopefully y’all enjoy it, join in on the fun, and embrace the daily practice of reading. so today, i read Never Play Piggy from @kellyoxford’s When You Find Out The World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments and raised $48ish for @blackgirlscode. reading @kellyoxford’s writing is such a visceral experience for me, i love it so much. if you watch tmrw, you’ll see what i mean ☺️
