Joon Ae HK (she/they)
@joonae.bsky.social
Korean adoptee + writer + dog lover + quen of typos | Co-founder of Constellation Reading Series + BIPOC Adoptees | Seoul -> Detroit -> Portland | 흑인의 생명은 소중하다 Black lives are precious & FREE PALESTINE ALL DAY EVERYDAY
Trying to get off Instagram because of censorship and Xios, but I have a really amazing community there. What do y’all like about this app vs Instagram?
May 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Trying to get off Instagram because of censorship and Xios, but I have a really amazing community there. What do y’all like about this app vs Instagram?
It is such an honor to hold this space for my friend Tamara in Gaza and for my fellow Korean adoptees. Love and solidarity!
oregonhumanities.org/rll/beyond-the-margins/a-debt-of-gratitude/
oregonhumanities.org/rll/beyond-the-margins/a-debt-of-gratitude/
A Debt of Gratitude
Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka writes about grief, empathy, and bubble tea.
www.oregonhumanities.org
November 22, 2024 at 4:41 AM
It is such an honor to hold this space for my friend Tamara in Gaza and for my fellow Korean adoptees. Love and solidarity!
oregonhumanities.org/rll/beyond-the-margins/a-debt-of-gratitude/
oregonhumanities.org/rll/beyond-the-margins/a-debt-of-gratitude/
This is such an intensely beautiful poem. ❤️🩹
My first-ever published poem was also the most emotionally vulnerable writing I've ever put onto a page. Thank you Blue Earth Review for selecting "post- and pre-" as the 2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award runner-up in poetry! #adopteevoices
November 21, 2024 at 6:13 AM
This is such an intensely beautiful poem. ❤️🩹
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My first-ever published poem was also the most emotionally vulnerable writing I've ever put onto a page. Thank you Blue Earth Review for selecting "post- and pre-" as the 2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award runner-up in poetry! #adopteevoices
November 20, 2024 at 5:35 PM
My first-ever published poem was also the most emotionally vulnerable writing I've ever put onto a page. Thank you Blue Earth Review for selecting "post- and pre-" as the 2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award runner-up in poetry! #adopteevoices
One of the most important things to me now is boosting this fundraiser for my Habibi, Tamara Abu Dayer. Please donate what you can! gofund.me/19d38c48
Donate to Escaping Genocide :Gaza Evacuation for My Family., organized by Tamara Abudayer
O free people of this world
I am Tamara Ashraf Abu Dayer. I am 25 y… Tamara Abudayer needs your support for Escaping Genocide :Gaza Evacuation for My Family.
gofund.me
November 16, 2024 at 7:43 PM
One of the most important things to me now is boosting this fundraiser for my Habibi, Tamara Abu Dayer. Please donate what you can! gofund.me/19d38c48
Adopting someone else's baby, as something you actually want and actively seek out, is just really weird if you think about it. Like, those people who say shit like, "Since I was a child, I wanted to adopt." Weird. Ew. Omg, wtf?
July 19, 2023 at 3:23 AM
Adopting someone else's baby, as something you actually want and actively seek out, is just really weird if you think about it. Like, those people who say shit like, "Since I was a child, I wanted to adopt." Weird. Ew. Omg, wtf?
That disconcerting way I want a garden and do nothing to make that happen 🌱🌱🌱
July 17, 2023 at 9:22 PM
That disconcerting way I want a garden and do nothing to make that happen 🌱🌱🌱
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a pro-family-preservation politics that is not strongly pro-abortion makes no sense to me. And I reject a politics that calls itself “pro-family” but is not strongly pro-family-preservation.
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July 16, 2023 at 8:01 PM
a pro-family-preservation politics that is not strongly pro-abortion makes no sense to me. And I reject a politics that calls itself “pro-family” but is not strongly pro-family-preservation.
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I grew up in a family culture that didn't value education, escaped, moved across the country, and got college 3 degrees that changed my life. Being working class w/no support from my adopters, I did it w/loans and working a ton. I ended up w $168K of student loan debt though I borrowed around $80k.
July 15, 2023 at 8:04 PM
I grew up in a family culture that didn't value education, escaped, moved across the country, and got college 3 degrees that changed my life. Being working class w/no support from my adopters, I did it w/loans and working a ton. I ended up w $168K of student loan debt though I borrowed around $80k.
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For those who've been away from BlueSky for a few days and are trying to figure out what the hell happened, here's the recent event that sparked the ongoing protest, and you can read about everything that led up to it earlier on Aveta's thread.
Update to include recent incidents:
Bluesky allowed a user for **sixteen days** have n—er as a handle https://bsky.app/profile/aliafonzy.bsky.social/post/3k2ehnd7m5y2y
It got taken down after raising this alarm
Bluesky allowed a user for **sixteen days** have n—er as a handle https://bsky.app/profile/aliafonzy.bsky.social/post/3k2ehnd7m5y2y
It got taken down after raising this alarm
. . . :/
But safe space huh lol
But safe space huh lol
July 14, 2023 at 1:31 PM
For those who've been away from BlueSky for a few days and are trying to figure out what the hell happened, here's the recent event that sparked the ongoing protest, and you can read about everything that led up to it earlier on Aveta's thread.
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agree the terminology needs work but the idea is to only post about the issue until the issue is sufficiently acknowledged and resolved. and imo that makes sense.
I see people talking about a "posting strike" so i just want to let everyone know there's no such thing as a posting strike. Those two words don't go together
July 13, 2023 at 4:49 PM
agree the terminology needs work but the idea is to only post about the issue until the issue is sufficiently acknowledged and resolved. and imo that makes sense.
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The idea that content moderation is the last refuge of fragile people rests on the confused idea that speech is “just words,” and it shifts the moral onus from the racists and bigots who target others for abuse and onto those targeted. This isn’t centrism, it’s reactionary.
I think one ought be strong enough, rather than so fragile, that if they see a rando's username with a bad word in it, they can roll their eyes and ignore them, mute, whatever. I don't think "Any user being rude or childish is a gross lapse of the dev team" is a viable way to run communication tech.
July 13, 2023 at 5:49 PM
The idea that content moderation is the last refuge of fragile people rests on the confused idea that speech is “just words,” and it shifts the moral onus from the racists and bigots who target others for abuse and onto those targeted. This isn’t centrism, it’s reactionary.
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SAG-AFTRA has voted to strike, joining picketing writers in what will amount to an effective shutdown of Hollywood
Screen Actors Guild Votes To Strike After Studio Negotiations Crumble
Hollywood performers will join Writers Guild of America members who have been on strike for over two months.
www.huffpost.com
July 13, 2023 at 7:16 PM
SAG-AFTRA has voted to strike, joining picketing writers in what will amount to an effective shutdown of Hollywood
The word skeet. Do not like.
July 13, 2023 at 7:51 PM
The word skeet. Do not like.
When you want to be the friend who shows up to everything, but you remember you hate leaving the house
July 13, 2023 at 4:05 AM
When you want to be the friend who shows up to everything, but you remember you hate leaving the house
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I would like to encourage my adoptee friends and all other interested persons to like and add this custom feed. If you would like your skeets (not replies) to show up there, lmk. It will improve the feed!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sfy6irvmfmnwxe4ouhrrn7a/feed/aaadnim25wkmc
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sfy6irvmfmnwxe4ouhrrn7a/feed/aaadnim25wkmc
July 12, 2023 at 12:28 AM
I would like to encourage my adoptee friends and all other interested persons to like and add this custom feed. If you would like your skeets (not replies) to show up there, lmk. It will improve the feed!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sfy6irvmfmnwxe4ouhrrn7a/feed/aaadnim25wkmc
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sfy6irvmfmnwxe4ouhrrn7a/feed/aaadnim25wkmc
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Severing a child from their parent through adoption, said Jean Paton, an adoptee, “is a social death.” Early in her career as a social worker she arranged two relinquishments, and they filled her with guilt. “We are playing funeral, and no one is dying.”
July 12, 2023 at 1:51 AM
Severing a child from their parent through adoption, said Jean Paton, an adoptee, “is a social death.” Early in her career as a social worker she arranged two relinquishments, and they filled her with guilt. “We are playing funeral, and no one is dying.”
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People are such weirdos because most kept people would never want to be adopted or lose their kids because, for themselves, they can imagine how painful it would be -- yet they fight tooth and nail with adopted people that we should be grateful.
July 12, 2023 at 2:53 AM
People are such weirdos because most kept people would never want to be adopted or lose their kids because, for themselves, they can imagine how painful it would be -- yet they fight tooth and nail with adopted people that we should be grateful.
My insurppressible inclination to hard agree with 100000% and YASSSSSS. 😬😆
July 10, 2023 at 6:48 AM
My insurppressible inclination to hard agree with 100000% and YASSSSSS. 😬😆
I made enough bokkeumbap for leftovers. But I ate it all in one sitting. 😆 I'm so full I'm getting a headache. 🤣
July 9, 2023 at 7:32 PM
I made enough bokkeumbap for leftovers. But I ate it all in one sitting. 😆 I'm so full I'm getting a headache. 🤣
This is so good! Thank you @fkajennifer.bsky.social for posting. I had missed this one!
Three Asian Adoptee Poets Reflect on Craft, Adoption, and Anti-Asian Violence
Three Asian Adoptee Poets Reflect on Craft, Adoption, and Anti-Asian Violence | Tiana Nobile, Marci ...
Tiana Nobile, Ansley Moon, and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello chat about poetry, their experiences of being Asian American adoptees, and anti-Asian violence
catapult.co
July 8, 2023 at 11:46 PM
This is so good! Thank you @fkajennifer.bsky.social for posting. I had missed this one!
Yessss! Matthew! 🙌
Matthew Charles is a poet, podcast host, and educator. We talk to him about the experience of being a transracial adoptee (TRA), his emergence as a poet and activist, and the importance of self-expression. https://severancemag.com/matthew-charles-poet-and-transracial-adoptee/
Matthew Charles: Poet and Transracial Adoptee - Severance Magazine
Poet, podcast host, and transracial adoptee Matthew Charles talks about creativity, activism, and finding his voice.
severancemag.com
July 8, 2023 at 11:40 PM
Yessss! Matthew! 🙌
As an adopted person, should I be grateful that I dont know if today is my birthday? That I could have a mother, or an entire family, grieving for me today and I won't know? That my birth, in many ways, meant loss, loss, and more loss? 🎂🤷🏻♀️
July 8, 2023 at 11:38 PM
As an adopted person, should I be grateful that I dont know if today is my birthday? That I could have a mother, or an entire family, grieving for me today and I won't know? That my birth, in many ways, meant loss, loss, and more loss? 🎂🤷🏻♀️