Addie Tsai (any/all)

@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social

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Queer Asian non-binary writer and artist. Dance PhD. Author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures. Shirley Jackson Awards finalist. Features and Reviews editor of Anomaly. EIC of just femme & dandy. Editor and sensitivity reader. http://www.addietsai.com

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I am honored and quite flabbergasted that my hybrid poem, “Dissociation: An Ars(enal) (of) Poetica, published with @manyworlds.place, is included in CLMP’s Disability Pride Month Reading List! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presseswww.clmp.org We asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in honor of Disability Pride Month, observed ann...

btw for those of you using substack, you can go into settings to not allow substack to train ai based on your posts - settings, publications details, scroll down and toggle to no.

new review up from our new translation column over at @anmlymag.bsky.social, acts of translation, from the column editor, jordan silversmith! check it out here: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

another source i'm looking for is dealing with the racial alignment of Black backup dancers supporting white pop artists

"To say, as many critics have, that whites steal from Blacks who originate important work in music or fashion is beside the point." (Hilton Als)

a very serious citation from today's chapter of focus for the monograph revision: www.tumblr.com/lesbianswhol...

dance scholars / scholars in fandom studies - seeking articles that address celebrities seeking individuals posting dance videos that will then be posted on the celebrity's social media, etc ...

for folks who feel the need to stay on socials for "professional" reasons) who are not interested in / deeply against being an AI training ground, tell me yr thoughts about remaining - do you have boundaries around what you're sharing or yr accounts etc?

suggestions for where to submit an asian horror story that just got a really glowing rejection?

academics: are there books on how to write tv scholarship? i feel mostly good about how i've managed it but man this shit is hard and it would be helpful to have some guidance at times, and i think for new scholars too...

Sooooooo...this week my asynchronous students are tasked with reading Dictee, and a number of other Dictee-related readings. Let's see if they still like me after this. 😂 In my little video for them, I told them to surrender to beautiful confusion. 🥹

Any water babies want to review / interview for this new book on the gendered struggles of women’s swimming and the history of aquatic performance? DM or [email protected] www.barnesandnoble.com/w/swimming-p...

Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water|Hardcoverwww.barnesandnoble.com A groundbreaking history of how women found synchronicity—and power—in water.If you’re not strong enough to swim fast, you’re probably not strong enough to swim ‘pretty,&...

Unwieldy Creatures made it on another library list, this one for Frankie books at Boston Public Library, which is one of my favorite libraries ever. bpl.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1...

BostonPL_Actually, It's Frankenstein's Monster: 9 Riffs on the Gothic Classic - Boston Public Librarybpl.bibliocommons.com BostonPL_Actually, It's Frankenstein's Monster: 9 Riffs on the Gothic Classic by BostonPL_KirstenD - a staff-created list : Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, penned by Mary Shelley (August 30, ...

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I am constantly impressed by the cartoonists that ALT their comics and how good they are at doing it. ALT’ing comics is something I struggle with. It really shows how connected artists are with their art.

be crow do crime

what's our favorite bhanu kapil to teach to undergrads in creative writing?

Check out the forward by Dao Strom for A MOUTH HOLDS MANY THINGS: A De-Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection, an anthology I'm so chuffed to be a part of. lithub.com/a-mouth-hold...

A Mouth Holds Many Things: On the Magic of Hybrid Writinglithub.com I am walking along a shoreline. A shoreline is a place, a geography, where two elements—water and sand—meet. We call this place of meeting a line, but it is also the continual erasing of line. How …

summer syllabus fun: tell me your favorite mixed-genre writing by Asian writers. you're welcome to mention the obvious ones but definitely excited to hear about those off the beaten path!

GRADES IN. STRAIGHT As.

New poems over at @manyworlds.place! Here's a link to one of them! manyworlds.place/issue-4/diss...

Dissociation: An Ars(enal) (of) Poetica by Addie Tsai -manyworlds.place I’m asked to write an essay about my relation to attention. I insert the word dissociate. An editor encourages me to describe it physically, a consolation to his worry my usage treats “an extraordinar...

One more interview, this one with Horror Writers Association for AAPI month! horror.org/asian-herita...

Asian Heritage in Horror Month: An Interview with Addie Tsaihorror.org What inspired you to start writing? I’ve written poems since I was eight years old. In third grade, I won third place for a Mother’s Day contest. So, initially, I wrote poems for my mother and stepmot...

New interview up! This one holds special meaning for me as it was conducted by @theshenners.bsky.social was the Mandarin and pinyin reader for Unwieldy Creatures. I feel honored to be included among the other wonderful Taiwanese American writers. readingasiam.blog/2024/05/13/a...

Author Interview: Addie Tsaireadingasiam.blog Welcome to the first interview in the 2024 run of my Taiwanese American Heritage Week series dedicated to featuring Taiwanese authors and their work. Taiwanese American Heritage Week occurs every year...

I don’t have words for how how much this book is a book of my heart. It might be the first to resonate w this stage of me—post-divorce, thinking of choices & growth & what ifs & futures & pasts. I strongly urge you to pick up @emnorth.bsky.social’s IN UNIVERSES.

A poem I wrote last year about my grief around (not) having children. Resharing in case it helps you today.

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fuck mother's day INTERVIEW W THE VAMPIRE S2 PREMIERE TONIGHT

okay okay to those images of the reasons for why this day can be hard but i'm grumpy about the "difficult relationships with mothers" because sometimes it's "those who had bad / harmful / neglectful mothers" say the thing out loud

May 12.

Got a very sweet note in my mailbox from a student in my Frankie class about being a kind and understanding mentor, but the best was the PS: "You always have a great fit. ❤️" 🥹😭

#OOTD orange eyeliner, pink and orange lipsticks blended, rainbow stripe star barrette, pink and yellow headphone earrings, yellow Yoplait shirt, rainbow brite skater skirt, orange and pink argyle socks, color block sneakers with orange and teal shoelaces, denim jacket.

Just rewatched Get Out for the 1st time since it came out in prep to cowrite this scholarly article. It's unreal how timeless it is. How terrifying it remains in my mind while having such few moments of violence? Let's say it hits different after divorcing a yt person & co.

Little shout out for Unwieldy Creatures at around 1:02:00 on this horror fiction podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2gmf...

Frankenstein Retellings with Jocelyn Codneropen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from Books in the Freezer - A Horror Fiction Podcast on Spotify. It's the era of Poor Things and Lisa Frankenstein. Let's talk about why it looks like Frankenstein is having a b...