E.M. Tran

i know it literally does not matter at all, but i become enraged by other writers or bookstagrammers who i don’t know who follow me, who i then follow back out of some perceived literary online camaraderie/etiquette, who then unfollow me??? what’s your problem

okay but if *every* standing ovation at every film festival has been 12+ minutes then the standing ovation needs to be 30 minutes or more for it to mean anything

"The further away I get from something as large as Hurricane Katrina, the more I understand that disasters such as these cannot be disentangled from human details. How important it is, more than ever, to resist flattening the storm (or the fires, or the earthquakes, or the floods) into something quick and forgettable, detached from individual experience." -E.M. Tran reflecting on her essay "Miss Saigon," originally published in Spring 2017 [Photo of the author] [Image of the Spring 2017 cover] Read the full essay on our blog prairieschooner.unl.edu

To mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we're sharing @emtran.bsky.social's essay "Miss Saigon," originally published in our Spring 2017 issue.

Read the full essay along with E.M. Tran's reflection on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

“We have a new name now—Krewe of PhantAsia—one that we voted on together.” —@emtran.bsky.social offers a new perspective on Mardi Gras for the Spring 2025 Food Issue.

🔗 https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-128-spring-2025/krewe-of-mung-beans-mardi-gras

📷 © Dung “Donkey”

based on my current media consumption, they’re really trying to shove tate mcrae and full body deodorant (???) down our throats

hey climate deniers, “global warming” doesn’t mean everything’s warm all the time, the reason it’s unseasonably cold in parts of the US rn is because the earth is warming at an unprecedented rate so the ice caps are melting and sending ice cold water further south, hope that helps! ☺️

it never ends, the dishes

how much you wanna bet trumpers did not understand how tariffs function.

america’s like, is queer eye’s fab five and gofundme an adequate fix for systemic poverty ???

i’m honestly shaken by how easily i was manipulated by the #baldoni blake lively PR takedown. more confirmation i could easily be tricked into joining a cult. #itendswithus

all i want for christmas is to be someone who has a grandfathered resy at galatoires for the friday before fat tuesday

if you could hear someone rolling their eyes over the phone then these hostesses are loud and clear baby!

trying to get a damn table for brunch in the french quarter in new orleans on the friday before mardi gras is such a great reminder my family hasn’t lived here for 250 years

i’m re-watching #gossipgirl and there’s an episode where a renowned writer whose mentoring dan humphrey is like “all your stories are about a boy living with his daddy in brooklyn” and honestly that made the whole show worth it

i updated my iOS and whoever redesigned the photos app should go to hell

tonight i had to change my 14-month-old child’s poopy diaper on the concrete floor of a single occupancy bathroom at the kind of restaurant that has pink neon lights and several octopus menu items & i feel sure the patrons in the dining room could hear him absolutely yowling

every day i have to unlearn the idea that there is only space for ONE asian person and so i actively try to celebrate when someone like me who is not me publishes or wins. i call this operation “there can be more than one lucy liu”

"Today is a good day, the first in a while,/ and I want to unbutton the sleeves of desire."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Flight Path" by Susan Nguyen, in #TheMargins!
aaww.org/flight-path/

it’s so annoying when i’m trying to get a haircut in the middle of the day and my job is like, where are you????

would love to be added! ☺️ #literaryfiction

Starter pack for #literaryfiction writers to find each other! Comment/repost and I'll add you go.bsky.app/ARue8c8

#literaryfiction #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors 💙📚

i deleted twitter and after seeing mike tyson’s bare butt on livestream, i felt lost. where do i go? where can i talk about the shock of seeing his butt? i guess bluesky. #tysonpaul