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R. O. Kwon 권오경
@rokwon
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • Lambda Literary Prize • 2025-2026 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow • substack.com/@rokwon
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    May 9, 2019
    Things that are truly pro-life: - abolishing the death penalty - vastly improved prenatal care - universal health care - vaccinations - better gun laws Things that are deeply hateful & not at all pro-life: - this whole fucking travesty of a misogynistic Georgia abortion law
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    Mar 28, 2020
    who else has the type of anxiety that tells you that, if you stay hypervigilant & informed & if you, in detail, imagine every possible bad outcome, you will thereby ward off harm to yourself & your whole community like some kind of powerful, jumpy magician & how are you doing
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    Sep 27, 2019
    all this skincare & I’m still going to have to die
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    Jun 12, 2022
    that sounds great. Whatever works for everyone! Not a problem. Up for anything. Down for anything. Yes to all of the above! Does anyone have a preference? Either sounds excellent. I'm open to options! I have no needs. I have no wants. I'm a lady
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    Jan 10, 2021
    shoutout to all the anxious people who anticipated roughly this level of chaos & feel nothing but miserable about having been right
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    Jun 28, 2024
    the physical fatigue that comes with feeling grief every single day about the country you live in, the people who run it, the world you inhabit
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    Nov 5, 2021
    well I was six when a white boy handed me a note saying “I don’t like Coreans” so maybe start at the same time as the spelling lessons
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    CBS News
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    Nov 4, 2021
    How young is too young to teach kids about race? cbsn.ws/2ZQJYBJ
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    Apr 15, 2020
    extremely rude of writing to remain difficult in the midst of a global crisis
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    Aug 17, 2024
    humans have fucked up so much but we did also come up with the idea of putting bits of food into little dough wrappers & the collective genius involved makes me emotional. Mandu. Gyoza. Har gow. Pierogi. Momos. Ravioli. Kreplach. Empanadas. Shish barak. Manti. XLB. Phenomenal 😭
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
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    Feb 18, 2022
    Christina Yuna Lee was killed in New York on Monday. In New Mexico, on Tuesday, an Asian woman was murdered at the massage parlor where she worked. A memorial in Chinatown to Christina Yuna Lee was vandalized. I don't have words anymore for this heartbreak
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
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    Feb 3, 2022
    absolutely aghast that I have lived this long without anyone telling me that this is how a peacock looks when it's flying
    peacock in flight
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    May 22, 2022
    the widespread idea that there are no mothers ever who regret having had children is so incorrect & wild. There are definitely mothers who can't wish their children gone, but do wish they could rewind time & undo it. I've lost track of how often I've heard this firsthand
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
    @rokwon
    Mar 19, 2021
    Asian reporters fluent in Korean who know Atlanta are being told they might be too biased to cover the shootings & I mean who are they, who are these newsroom people telling Asian reporters they'll be too biased to cover an anti-Asian massacre, I just want to talk
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    Michelle Ye Hee Lee
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    Mar 18, 2021
    Since the shootings, @aaja members reported: -being fluent in Korean, knowing ATL, asking to cover but being told they may be too biased -being the only AAPI at work and feeling overwhelmed they have to represent all AAPIs -& more. To their newsrooms: aaja.org/2021/03/18/aaj…
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    R. O. Kwon 권오경
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    Mar 30, 2021
    Asian people—& other people too, but especially Asian people—if you see the video from yesterday of the 65-year-old Asian woman being attacked in Manhattan, you might not want to watch it. I did & it's all I can think about, I wish I could unlearn this part of it