Kathy Ou🌞
@kathyyouu.bsky.social
Writer, critic, filmmaker.
Shenzhen–LA–NYC
www.kathyou.com
Shenzhen–LA–NYC
www.kathyou.com
"This is, more than anything, a plea for principled leftists to rise en masse and not just decry but disrupt a nation helmed by gleeful genocideers. I’m writing frantically, aware my prose is ugly, overearnest, unvetted against worst-faith readers. It’s graceless, unlovely. So am I." —Kaveh Akbar
What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"This is, more than anything, a plea for principled leftists to rise en masse and not just decry but disrupt a nation helmed by gleeful genocideers. I’m writing frantically, aware my prose is ugly, overearnest, unvetted against worst-faith readers. It’s graceless, unlovely. So am I." —Kaveh Akbar
Reposted by Kathy Ou🌞
In 2003, a group of artists secretly moved into a 750-square-foot space in a large mall in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. They didn’t expect to stay more than a day, a week at most. But they stayed for four years.
A Group of Friends Walks Into a Mall, and Stays for Four Years
Was it a crime? A prank? A work of art? A new documentary unveils the full story of an artist collective’s secret mall apartment, and other ephemeral actions.
hyperallergic.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In 2003, a group of artists secretly moved into a 750-square-foot space in a large mall in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. They didn’t expect to stay more than a day, a week at most. But they stayed for four years.
Reposted by Kathy Ou🌞
Over at @vacro.bsky.social I've put together a thread of coverage of the intertwined issues of the carceral state and climate justice in the context of firefighting in California. Some incredible journalism here from @prismreports.bsky.social to @verainstitute.bsky.social to @teenvogue.bsky.social:
Thousands of the firefighters currently battling bushfires in California are incarcerated in California's prisons. It's dangerous and pays as little as $2 a day. Most will be barred from working as firefighters post-release. Here's a 🧵of coverage of the issue:
www.motherjones.com/environment/...
www.motherjones.com/environment/...
30 percent of California's forest firefighters are prisoners
About 4,000 inmates battle blazes in the Golden State's woodlands.
www.motherjones.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Over at @vacro.bsky.social I've put together a thread of coverage of the intertwined issues of the carceral state and climate justice in the context of firefighting in California. Some incredible journalism here from @prismreports.bsky.social to @verainstitute.bsky.social to @teenvogue.bsky.social:
Reposted by Kathy Ou🌞
For @gdnlongread, I wrote about Chinese burnout, and the man who's created a business—modeled of Alcoholics Anonymous—to tackle it, one session at a time. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation
Li Jianxiong was a highflying marketing executive in Beijing until a breakdown sent him to the west on a wellness voyage of discovery – just as his peers were losing faith in the Chinese Dream
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
For @gdnlongread, I wrote about Chinese burnout, and the man who's created a business—modeled of Alcoholics Anonymous—to tackle it, one session at a time. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reposted by Kathy Ou🌞
“Rights only have power in so far as people know about them & enforce them. It really is where the rubber meets the road.”
Kathy Ou reports on a new CA bill that could offer a lifeline to immigrant entrepreneurs resisting gentrification in LA's Chinatown:
prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
Kathy Ou reports on a new CA bill that could offer a lifeline to immigrant entrepreneurs resisting gentrification in LA's Chinatown:
prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
For small businesses in LA’s Chinatown, tenant law could be a lifeline
California’s Commercial Tenant Protection Act is the first of its kind to protect small business owners, including in LA’s Chinatown
prismreports.org
January 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Rights only have power in so far as people know about them & enforce them. It really is where the rubber meets the road.”
Kathy Ou reports on a new CA bill that could offer a lifeline to immigrant entrepreneurs resisting gentrification in LA's Chinatown:
prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
Kathy Ou reports on a new CA bill that could offer a lifeline to immigrant entrepreneurs resisting gentrification in LA's Chinatown:
prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
Reposted by Kathy Ou🌞
Debates about gentrification have often focused on housing, but businesses—especially small businesses—can be victims of gentrification too. Will a recent CA bill, offering protections & increasing negotiating power, be enough to stem the tide of gentrification? prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
For small businesses in LA’s Chinatown, tenant law could be a lifeline
California’s Commercial Tenant Protection Act is the first of its kind to protect small business owners, including in LA’s Chinatown
prismreports.org
January 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Debates about gentrification have often focused on housing, but businesses—especially small businesses—can be victims of gentrification too. Will a recent CA bill, offering protections & increasing negotiating power, be enough to stem the tide of gentrification? prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
Unsure how to show up for the 1st post on a new platform (my feed has changed from wholesome book talks & silly memes to more pro & journo content in the past 2 months since I got on here), but here’s the 1st published story in 2025 from yours truly: prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
For small businesses in LA’s Chinatown, tenant law could be a lifeline
California’s Commercial Tenant Protection Act is the first of its kind to protect small business owners, including in LA’s Chinatown
prismreports.org
January 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Unsure how to show up for the 1st post on a new platform (my feed has changed from wholesome book talks & silly memes to more pro & journo content in the past 2 months since I got on here), but here’s the 1st published story in 2025 from yours truly: prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...