It’s Only Getting Hotter | Los Angeles Review of Books Lisa Kwon talks with Sam Bloch about his new book “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.”

the great darkening has arrived. read my convo with Sam Bloch about his new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and let us all get shade-pilled 🚫🌴

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Migratory birds don't know borders the way we obsess over them ...así que todavía estamos dispuestos a seguir hasta la victoria

new substack post on a little songbird, greenwashing the good things out of our lives, the police state

pc: Jabz Gallo (a new friend and founding member of Save the Vireo

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A screenshot of a screenshot; on twitter, @lisaskwon posts a screenshot of something she saw on instagram from @rios.imagines, saying "all week i've been thinking about this caption". The image shows riot cops aiming guns at protesters barricaded behind pink park furniture amidst a cloud of tear gas. The caption from @rios.imagines reads: "images of the bright pink civic furniture line that we designed for @grandpark_la "the park for everyone" being used by LA protesters stopped us in our tracks. These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect. we stand in solidarity with our city during moments of civic expression in support of unjust treatment, and we are reminded why we design: for our community, diversity, and a sense of belonging."

this made me cry. rios i was not familiar with your game

A Scanner Darkly On LA Scanner, community surveillance, our January wildfires

new substack post about @ LA Scanner, who many of us relied on for realtime updates during our January wildfires. this is about "cop watchers" who deputize themselves as lone heroes

i enjoyed writing this one. this is the kind of LA stuff ill keep posting

justacity.substack.com/p/a-scanner-...

To All the Hongdae Boys I’ve Loved Before A straight-coded post on desire plus an intro.

i made a substack to chip away at what LA is/isn't + share occasional cultural commentary. my first post is about the Hongdae Boys, made viral in April. Leave Hongdae Boys alone/i wish people would worry on understanding their own desires/ur being racist

justacity.substack.com/p/to-all-the...

doing my best

“Becoming Ghost” with Cathy Linh Che — IMPULSE Magazine Che’s latest collection of poems looks at the American myth-making that shaped public memory of the Vietnam War.

today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. I interviewed poet @cathylinhche.bsky.social about her new book of poetry reflecting on her parents’ work as extras on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and American myth-making of the war impulsemagazine.com/symposium/be...

I’m always interested in work that situates big-time sports in our larger culture.

This seems pretty deft.

things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻

things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻

After one of the WILDEST council exchanges in recent memory, with councilmembers accusing each other of making backroom deals (!!!), LA's Olympic wage passes 12-3, guaranteeing LA's tourism workers a minimum wage increase to $30/hour by 2028

My previous story: www.torched.la/the-olympic-...

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Astria Suparak On The Politics Of Sport Astria Suparak speaks about how sports and the arts are not mutually exclusive sources of inquiry and criticism of our political and cultural spheres.

pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...

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it be two girls at happy hour going “i can’t cry, i intellectualize my grief”

when an editor says i came back with strong reporting + writing... im better than you

waist deep in pow!! surfs up in mammoth

I will! I’ll share when I do 💗

snow capped trees in a mountain town on a snowy day

more snowy trees and a building dripping with icicles

i love being inaccessible

thank you!!

On Housing Concept Art By Lisa Kwon

she’s writing about ktown again..a return to form 🤷🏻‍♀️ my essay on sickly housing concept art for cusper magazine open.substack.com/pub/cusperma...

lest we forget that we always have the choice to say "fuck that i aint doing that"

follow me if you cannot stand simu liu

it’s maybe the one thing I’ve wanted to write all year but media is !!!frustrating!!! so im planning a screening + discussion with friends instead

i am struggling to find a home for a piece I’d like to write about the psychic damage Koreans have endured ten years after Seth Rogen’s The Interview came out. that film cycle needs a proper critical reappraisal but I don’t think people care to hear how much Obama is at fault for Korean relations!!!

seolleontang (설렁탕) from [REDACTED] in Koreatown

i will not gatekeep but you will have to ask me where it’s from

in a first, cried while interviewing someone today. if you tenderly show me a picture of your late wife and tell me how much you miss her, bye 😭 Im a writer second, Aries first

Michéle liked his black boots that makes him sound like he’s walking in heels

Logan the golden retriever gets pets from Michéle Lemy

you may be an LA cultural icon and creative shapeshifter but in the end we are all the same, made of flesh and bones, that a dog just wants to cuddle up on

Hanif Abdurraqib | Flight Club: Friends & Family YouTube video by Flight Club

im so thrilled that i reached out to hanif abdurraqib to talk (so tenderly!) about his wild sneaker collection because the world needs to know

also, chris paul WOULD make a great poet

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