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In an ideal world, there would be abundant roles for Simu and other AAPI actors, especially queer ones, who are not given a chance. 7/
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Maybe I should have made it more clear that I meant having more representation IN ADDITION to Simu, not INSTEAD of, but to me that is implied because, why would I want to silence the one Asian actor we have lol. 6/
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And I would never blame Simu for Hollywood’s actions — I was clearly calling out tokenism in the industry, and I wish people could have focused on that. 5/
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I also included queer Asian men to play the role of Ken in the article, considering that the Barbie franchise is a big deal for the queer community. And for the most part, I was just regurgitated the suggestions of other people on Twitter with links to their Tweets 4/
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For most of my childhood I could only name 2 famous Asian men: Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee, and I could relate to neither of them. I don’t want Asian-American kids today to only be able to name one or two famous Asian men because that doesn’t feel like progress 3/
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Hollywood and the entertainment industry has a history of choosing one underrepresented person and hiring them for every single role, when they seem to understand that there are many types of white people, but the same understanding does not exist for other ethnicities 2/
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Ok, so Simu responded to this article I wrote for HuffPost and some people are up in arms about it. It's getting a little out of hand so let me just say first and foremost that I don’t think the idea that Hollywood is using Simu as a token actor should be a controversial take. 1/
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I won the Pulitzer Prize yesterday! I’m so thrilled and so humbled. I woke up this at 6 am to my proud Jamaican father calling people to tell them about it!
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Congratulations to @newsbysamuels, @ToluseO, @VikingBooks, @NewYorker and @washingtonpost. #Pulitzer
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i do honestly believe that destroying yr compulsive desire to be liked all the time is a key to happiness
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Jordan Neely’s murder should remind us that the pretexts for lynchings often boiled down to discomfort felt by whites around Black people. Further, they weren’t done in secret. They were public spectacles, attended by white families for community building and lauded by newspapers
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if you’re in new york, you need to be paying attention to what happened to jordan neely. you need to understand how important bystander intervention is. and what you’d do to step in if you witnessed someone being harmed. he was just a person asking for help.
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"...pink was the primary color of the Me Too movement, which Lagerfield frequently and publicly criticized. Like many other old, white men in the industry at the time, Lagerfeld characterized Me Too as some sort of witch hunt." I said what I said!
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NY STAND TF UP!!! I’M BACK IN BROOKLYN NEXT WEEK FOR A SURPRISE PERFORMANCE @ NOWADAYS WITH MY FAVORITE GIRLS 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Not to make it even more depressing in here but the journalism freelance economy is not built for this. People should not be forced into gig work because all of the staff jobs are gone.
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Time to hit the piers
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Horrible: BuzzFeed News is shutting down
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A Black boy goes to pick up his little brothers. He rings a doorbell or knocks at the door...and gets shot in the head. "There was a racial component to this case,'' the prosecutor says. When will this stop? When will our boys be safe?
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Some people could literally become so much better overnight and the only thing stopping them is their ego
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No reason I should go through JFK to get from Bushwick to Jackson Heights
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"White journalists make up about half (53%) of those who report on social issues and policy, but they make up large majorities of the other 10 beats studied, including 84% of those who cover environment and energy."
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env and energy reporters are the whitest beat out there, per new @pewresearch data.
@prosaaquino shared with the @uproot_project crew and WOW. a reminder why we need groups like ours
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023
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Please tell me y'all see what I'm seeing. twitter.com/thedailybeast/
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for i questioned why black women continue to play a role in chris brown’s anti-blackness by collaborating with him in this endless attempt of a redemption arc
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Wrote a piece about #BEEFNetflix, which came out today. I finished watching the series two weeks ago and it's been a STRUGGLE not being able to talk about it with anyone. TRUST you won't regret watching.
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Going on dates as a journalist is hard because naturally, I'm a good interviewer so it's hard to decipher if we actually clicked or if I just asked good questions 🤨
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What I see every time I scroll past “the mole” on Netflix
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“But I also told people that I had just gone off my meds cold turkey, which is how I learned that the exact same thing had happened to a lot of them too.” Thank you for letting me write about what it was like to go off my antidepressants!
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Does he know what Germany, Italy and Spain were doing in WWII lol
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Replying to @ElijahSchaffer
Japanese, like all Asian cultures, are taught from childhood to think in a "collective" way. A very cohesive social structure. Not so good, however, when that collective integrity is focused on a single individual, like emperor in WWII. Let's hope the Japanese learned better.
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Wrote a story about Native American children in North Carolina who are being asked to cut their hair by the schools they attend.
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My mom just asked me “how do you call giant calamaris in English?” She meant octopus
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