Grace Loh Prasad
@gracelp.bsky.social
Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
A DREAM COME TRUE: My first book event of 2026 will be in Taiwan!!! On Tuesday, Jan. 20, 7:30pm, I am so honored and excited to be in conversation with @michellekuo.bsky.social at Bookman Books in Taipei. Event will be in English; RSVP via the QR code. Taipei friends, hope to see you there! 💚
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 PM
A DREAM COME TRUE: My first book event of 2026 will be in Taiwan!!! On Tuesday, Jan. 20, 7:30pm, I am so honored and excited to be in conversation with @michellekuo.bsky.social at Bookman Books in Taipei. Event will be in English; RSVP via the QR code. Taipei friends, hope to see you there! 💚
My year in writing… and stay tuned for a big announcement tomorrow!! ✨✨✨
January 1, 2026 at 12:49 AM
My year in writing… and stay tuned for a big announcement tomorrow!! ✨✨✨
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“I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe that disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Hero of 2025: Alice Wong
The disability justice icon's last message: "Don’t let the bastards grind you down."
www.motherjones.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe that disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Last night I watched an excellent movie from Taiwan (Left-Handed Girl, available on Netflix) and it reminded me of something I’m learning as a beginning fiction writer: great storytelling always *raises the stakes*
'Left-Handed Girl' takes on quiet shame across generations in Taipei
Shih-Ching Tsou has collaborated with filmmaker Sean Baker for years. Tsou's solo directorial debut uses Taipei as its canvas to tell a story about women making ends meet in the city.
www.npr.org
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Last night I watched an excellent movie from Taiwan (Left-Handed Girl, available on Netflix) and it reminded me of something I’m learning as a beginning fiction writer: great storytelling always *raises the stakes*
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merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
December 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
Were you good this year? Congratulations, here’s a Christmas cat 😸
December 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Were you good this year? Congratulations, here’s a Christmas cat 😸
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
I feel like I should run away, change my name, and never look back. Like what do I do with this freedom… who even am I
IT helped me troubleshoot an app that wasn’t working, but in the process I was forced to log out of my browser and lost my 72 open tabs
I’m gonna need a minute here 😭
I’m gonna need a minute here 😭
December 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I feel like I should run away, change my name, and never look back. Like what do I do with this freedom… who even am I
IT helped me troubleshoot an app that wasn’t working, but in the process I was forced to log out of my browser and lost my 72 open tabs
I’m gonna need a minute here 😭
I’m gonna need a minute here 😭
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
IT helped me troubleshoot an app that wasn’t working, but in the process I was forced to log out of my browser and lost my 72 open tabs
I’m gonna need a minute here 😭
I’m gonna need a minute here 😭
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
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imagine a government that reacted when horrendous shit happens apnews.com/article/aust...
Australia to tighten gun laws after Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre
Australian leaders have promised to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
apnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
imagine a government that reacted when horrendous shit happens apnews.com/article/aust...
My son was in preschool when Sandy Hook happened. It was the night of their holiday party and all the parents were trying to put on a cheerful face for our kids even though we were shellshocked. He’s a high school senior now, and 13 years later this country still values guns more than children 😭😭
December 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My son was in preschool when Sandy Hook happened. It was the night of their holiday party and all the parents were trying to put on a cheerful face for our kids even though we were shellshocked. He’s a high school senior now, and 13 years later this country still values guns more than children 😭😭
THIS IS THE PROBLEM GUYS 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Generative AI is amazing at tasks where I am not qualified to judge the output.
December 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
THIS IS THE PROBLEM GUYS 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
What Are We Doing to Our Children?
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
www.meidasplus.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
DEI was supposed to create more equality and participation FOR PEOPLE but instead I feel like it’s metastasized into the belief that we have to provide equal airtime for abhorrent viewpoints and bad-faith, contrarian bullshit. People have lost the ability to dismiss certain ideas as just bad & wrong
December 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
DEI was supposed to create more equality and participation FOR PEOPLE but instead I feel like it’s metastasized into the belief that we have to provide equal airtime for abhorrent viewpoints and bad-faith, contrarian bullshit. People have lost the ability to dismiss certain ideas as just bad & wrong
This article is a disaster and the headline is misleading. Yes, AI should be used to solve our most pressing problems and to handle massive computational analysis. But the problem is not a shortage of ideas. LLMs don’t generate “new” ideas, they parse what has come before.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This article is a disaster and the headline is misleading. Yes, AI should be used to solve our most pressing problems and to handle massive computational analysis. But the problem is not a shortage of ideas. LLMs don’t generate “new” ideas, they parse what has come before.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
Absolutely sickened that we as a country have decided this is OK 😞
Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, sheriff's officials said Saturday. n.pr/3M0EoV4
4 dead and 10 wounded in shooting at banquet hall in Stockton, California
Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, sheriff's officials said Saturday.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Absolutely sickened that we as a country have decided this is OK 😞
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
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this essay is gorgeous.
If you’re lonely on Thanksgiving, mourning a loved one, or don’t have the kind of support you hoped for whatever reason, I wrote this for you. It’s also included in my book The Translator’s Daughter theoffingmag.com/insight/the-...
The Orca and the Spider: On Motherhood, Loss, and Community - The Offing
Insight - The Offing Magazine
theoffingmag.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
this essay is gorgeous.