Mark Tseng-Putterman

@tsengputterman

I write on race, U.S. history, Asian America, and social movements. Words in . [he/him/his]

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Jun 2018

    "The model minority myth is even more dangerous when it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: how can students envision an Asian American student movement when they’re constantly told it doesn’t, or can’t, exist?"

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    May 12

    Happy Mother's Day. "The challenge is to transform reproductive work from work that reproduces people for the market to work that reproduces people for the struggle." --Silvia Frederici (2014).

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  3. May 12

    AsAm activists aren't symbols for us to project our own agendas onto—we do them a disservice when we don't struggle alongside their own political evolution and analysis. Kochiyama's "Passing it On" memoir and Diane Fujino's "Heartbeat of Struggle" are good places to start.

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  4. May 12

    "I was just a neophyte in the civil rights movement that was for integration and he was an integral part of the black liberation movement...that's totally different." —Kochiyama on how Malcolm X challenged and shifted her politics towards revolutionary nationalism

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  5. May 12

    Yuri Kochiyama didn't occupy the Statue of Liberty as a freedom fighter for Puerto Rican liberation for you to call her a "civil rights" activist. Thank you for coming to my APAHM X Ted talk

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  6. Retweeted
    May 11

    Hey folks, Jee's had to discontinue treatment in the short term due to a lack of funds. Donations would make a really big difference right now. Here's the link again:

    Hey all. Jee continues to need help with finances. She's a queer WOC survivor who's been unemployed for the past year due to disability caused by the assault. During the holidays, lots of people give out to orgs. Pls consider giving to individuals as well
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  7. Retweeted
    May 10

    . think of Cambodian mothers—genocide survivors—who are resisting the deportation of their sons. I urge you to .

    Cambodian mothers gathering in resistance of deportation of their sons. This Mother’s Day, they’ll be without their children. ⁦⁩ you can reunite families.
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  8. Retweeted
    May 10

    I've lost track of how many rounds of ICE raids on the Cambodian community I've witnessed, how many goodbyes I've witnessed, and how many broken hearts. It doesn't have to be like this. can and stop deportations.

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    May 10

    W/Mother's Day coming up, now is the time to stop the separation of Cambodian American mothers from their children by deportation. We call on to end separation of families in a community that has endured war/genocide/poverty/violence/incarceration.

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    May 10

    remember this ? let our families be free

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    May 10

    . reading off the names of the 52 Cambodian men facing separation from their families and the United States, the only home they have ever known. We're ringing a bell for each of them and holding a moment of silence. – at California State Capitol Building

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  12. Retweeted
    May 11

    1. Erasing LGBTQIA folks from the discussion of abortion and centering solutions (if you can call this a solution) around cis/heterosexual sex is counterproductive.

    Our reproductive rights are being erased. Until women have legal control over our own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy. JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. I’m calling for a . Pass it on.
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    May 11

    Artists who have an opinion about the conditions and dynamics of the production of their art aren’t being selfish or ungrateful.

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    May 10

    "This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reflect on imperialism, racism, and genocide as core aspects of North American history."— on the for

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  15. May 11

    Artists who have an opinion about the conditions and dynamics of the production of their art aren’t being selfish or ungrateful.

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  16. May 10

    Good piece on how FOTB sacrificed Constance Wu’s character, along with any semblance of political subversion, in its pursuit of white bread palatability

    just gonna leave this here
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    May 10

    Cambodian mothers gathering in resistance of deportation of their sons. This Mother’s Day, they’ll be without their children. ⁦⁩ you can reunite families.

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  18. May 10

    I am all in for Representazn: Civil War 🍿

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  19. May 10

    Remember the Chinese migrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad. Remember the enslaved ppl who built RR through the South. Remember the Native nations whose lands were stolen in the process. Remember the RR capitalists who profited from it all.

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  20. May 10

    Reminder for those tempted to position the military as the polar opposite of contemporary hate violence and mass shootings: Vietnam veterans basically revived American neo-Nazism

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  21. May 10

    do colonized ppl not count in this equation or what

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