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Vina Orden

@hyffeinated.bsky.social

She/her/siya. Writer, editor, and immigrants’ rights and human rights advocate. 2024 Roots. Wounds. Words. YA Fellow; 2022 Tin House YA Workshop, AAWW Open City Fellow, and Kweli Sing The Truth YA Mentee. Editor, Slant’d Lit Mag.

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I’m currently reading Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People” 💙

09.08.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Each of us plays a role in propping up this Regime. Or helping to bring it down.

Withdraw your $$$ support for #MAGAFascism. Take the pledge for an #AmazonDryJuly -- then #BoycottAmazon thru 7/31 and beyond!

Sign up for tips to quit Prime & a list of Amazon Alternatives! tinyurl.com/AmazonDryJuly

22.07.2025 14:37 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

Just signed up for this. People Power, let’s go! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

05.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dirty Kitchen In the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way ...

Also preorder Jill’s memoir, out in May www.simonandschuster.com/books/Dirty-...

08.03.2025 16:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Self-Deportation Taught Me What I Know About This Country My decision to leave the U.S. seemed crazy. I believed then that America is exceptional, the only nation capable of caring for its people.

Read this powerful piece in the NYT by Filipino writer Jill Damatac www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...

08.03.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This strikes a chord, growing up in the Cordilleras, overrun by gold mines when the US colonized the Philippines. It’s unsurprising Trump idolizes McKinley & TR—white settler colonizers who robbed generations of Filipinos of our sovereignty. I’m for Ukraine & against colonizers. 💙💛✊🏽

01.03.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump and Zelensky Get Into Shouting Match in Oval Office: Full Video President Trump, in a raised voice, told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “you’re gambling with World War III” during a contentious Oval Office meeting.

It’s embarrassing seeing childish bullies gang up on a leader of a country that was once our ally & just like Putin, try to strong-arm Ukraine into giving over rights to American companies for lithium, titanium, and other deposits made rare on earth by our capitalist consumerist society.

01.03.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Blue and yellow text that reads “For Ukraine, Against Colonizers” against a blue and yellow background

Blue and yellow text that reads “For Ukraine, Against Colonizers” against a blue and yellow background

So, President Zelenskyy tried to explain the war to Trump—who didn’t know the year Russia invaded Ukraine—& Vance, who’s never been to Ukraine but “saw stories.” He was then accused of running “propaganda tours,” not being appreciative of his country’s “savior” Trump, & “gambling with WWIII.”

01.03.2025 05:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

01.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 5906    🔁 2494    💬 48    📌 119

Shocked that MSNBC let go of the best person/show on their network. Thank you @joyannreid.bsky.social and Godspeed! I hope you land where your brilliant light is valued ❤️✊🏽

26.02.2025 02:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How to boycott:
• DON'T shop online or in-store, particularly on Amazon, Walmart, or Best Buy
• DON'T spend money on fast food, gas, or major retailers
• DON'T use credit or debit cards for non-essential spending
• ONLY BUY essentials
• ONLY support your small, local businesses IF you must

22.02.2025 18:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
White text on black background listing the economic blackout tour by ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com

White text on black background listing the economic blackout tour by ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com

Working and middle-class people don't need to put our hard-earned money into the pockets of anti-union/anti-labor billionaires like Jeff Bezos. Join me in nationwide boycotts, starting 12 a.m. midnight Thu., Feb. 27 to 12 a.m. midnight Fri., Feb. 28.

22.02.2025 18:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Took the first step to wean myself off Amazon & bought my Boswellia & Magnesium Glycinate supplements elsewhere 😅 Did you know Americans spend an ave. of $91.75/mo. on Amazon, and 33% think what they spend on Amazon a year is more than what's currently in their savings account?!

22.02.2025 18:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It’s not that complicated…

29.01.2025 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Nature of Our Times Call for Submissions. Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.

Poets, you have until Jan. 15 to submit to the online gallery—visit the website (natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org) for more information!

08.01.2025 14:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Time Machine - The Nature of Our Times To reach Mother on the mainland Empire, we flew paper planes to Henry Hudson Hotel— stopover for foreign nurses enlisted at $7 an hour in the War on AIDS. We the pacified wards of the First World— our...

My #poetry, “Time Machine” natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/time-machine/ and “Ghosts” natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/ghosts/ explore human relations and the impact of systems and structures we’ve created (including globalization and capitalism) on the natural world we co-inhabit #litmag

08.01.2025 14:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In an already challenging new year, I’m grateful for some good news, which is that two of my poems were published in The Nature of Our Times (online) and will be considered for a forthcoming print anthology co-edited by Luisa A. Gloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler!

08.01.2025 14:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Applications now open for George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop - Medill - Northwestern University Applications are now open for the second George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.

Journalists! George R.R. Martin funded a summer workshop through the Medill School of Journalism to help mid-career journalists transition to being novelists (like I did!)

I'm an instructor, and last year's workshop was mind blowing. The deadline is 1/8!

www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2024/ap...

02.01.2025 19:49 — 👍 122    🔁 40    💬 3    📌 1

Remember the countless beautiful and loving things that happen every day that never get reported.

Bad news events aren't the only reality. We can pay attention without having our vision skewed to seeing only the negative.

02.01.2025 20:04 — 👍 671    🔁 133    💬 24    📌 9
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Rejection is hard, but nice ones motivate me to keep up the work of writing, editing, and submitting. #writing #poetry #literarymagazine #litmag #submit

02.01.2025 20:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of We Tried to Tell Y'All, with a black Twitter bird on a blue background

Cover of We Tried to Tell Y'All, with a black Twitter bird on a blue background

Cover of Hip-Hop Civics, with youth standing together looking in the same direction

Cover of Hip-Hop Civics, with youth standing together looking in the same direction

Cover of Indenture Aesthetics, with a triptych photo series of a reclining body overlaid on historical family photos and photographs of indentured people

Cover of Indenture Aesthetics, with a triptych photo series of a reclining body overlaid on historical family photos and photographs of indentured people

Cover of How We Make Each Other, with abstract smiling faces full of joy

Cover of How We Make Each Other, with abstract smiling faces full of joy

New year, new books! 🥳 There are six(!) January releases from Ideas on Fire authors to celebrate this first month of the new year. Join us in congratulating these authors who are kicking off 2025 on a high note. Catch them all here: https://buff.ly/40aMRcP

#IoFAuthors #NewBooks

02.01.2025 15:22 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Since Marvel released “The United States of Captain America,” featuring “local Cap” Ari Agbayani, I’ve questioned this kind of representation—especially given the historical and continued exploitation of Filipina women’s/trans women’s bodies by members of the US military. #JenniferLaude

02.01.2025 14:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thrilled my essay, “Agbayani Worship: Mythmaking, Colonial Mentality, and the Problematics of a Filipino Captain America,” was just published in issue 11:1 of CUNY Forum! aaari.info/cuny-forum-v...
#academia #academicchatter #comicbook #comics #Filipino

02.01.2025 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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