Seo-Young J. Chu (she/they)
@seoyoungjchu.bsky.social
disabled queer Korean Am semi-feral writer/CUNY prof. A Refuge for Jae-in Doe; I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley; Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation; The DMZ Responds; Postmemory Han; #MeToo
According to the article, Summers hasn’t stepped back from teaching: “This semester, Summers is teaching five Harvard courses, including two large undergraduate classes.”
Why is Summers still being given access to mentees, many of whom are probably young women?
#MeTooAcademia
Why is Summers still being given access to mentees, many of whom are probably young women?
#MeTooAcademia
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement.
Crimson News Staff report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Crimson News Staff report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a…
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
According to the article, Summers hasn’t stepped back from teaching: “This semester, Summers is teaching five Harvard courses, including two large undergraduate classes.”
Why is Summers still being given access to mentees, many of whom are probably young women?
#MeTooAcademia
Why is Summers still being given access to mentees, many of whom are probably young women?
#MeTooAcademia
CW: sexual harassment, racist stereotypes, misogyny, rape culture
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM
CW: sexual harassment, racist stereotypes, misogyny, rape culture
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Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
I dreamt that Denis Villeneuve adapted Emily Dickinson’s poem “My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun” into a sci-fi thriller starring Angelina Jolie as the gun
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52737/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52737/...
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun (764)
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - And now We roam in Sovreign Woods - And now We hunt the Doe - And every time I speak f...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I dreamt that Denis Villeneuve adapted Emily Dickinson’s poem “My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun” into a sci-fi thriller starring Angelina Jolie as the gun
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52737/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52737/...
What is the proper thing to do when you’re viewing a Google Doc by yourself at 5AM and an Anonymous Iguana suddenly joins you in the document? Do you type “Hi, Iguana”? Do you leave to give the Iguana some privacy? Do you shut down the computer because the social anxiety is overwhelming?
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
What is the proper thing to do when you’re viewing a Google Doc by yourself at 5AM and an Anonymous Iguana suddenly joins you in the document? Do you type “Hi, Iguana”? Do you leave to give the Iguana some privacy? Do you shut down the computer because the social anxiety is overwhelming?
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This is a wonderful thread on how to support your community members facing hunger. #MomSky
Yesterday we talked a little bit about SNAP ending and how everyone who can, should give back to their communities. I'm going to spend a little time today talking about what to give.
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is a wonderful thread on how to support your community members facing hunger. #MomSky
“A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme” —Zohran Mamdani in his Tuesday 11/4/25 victory speech, quoting Andrew Cuomo’s father
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme” —Zohran Mamdani in his Tuesday 11/4/25 victory speech, quoting Andrew Cuomo’s father
Today I voted early for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Today I voted early for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
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The cases were “resolved” by Cuomo hounding Bennet for years, at taxpayer’s expense, including with a retaliatory defamation lawsuit that he filed *after* the attorney general found that he had sexually harassed her.
wow. zohran brought one of cuomo’s accusers, charlotte bennett, to the mayoral debate. he asked cuomo what he would say to his 13 accusers of sexual harassment. cuomo said it takes “a certain level of maturity to work in government” and that the cases were resolved anyway. fucking scum.
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The cases were “resolved” by Cuomo hounding Bennet for years, at taxpayer’s expense, including with a retaliatory defamation lawsuit that he filed *after* the attorney general found that he had sexually harassed her.
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Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations
Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries
Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries
October 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations
Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries
Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries
My eyesight has gotten so bad and/or A.I. has gotten so good that I can no longer tell which photographs and videos are “real”
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My eyesight has gotten so bad and/or A.I. has gotten so good that I can no longer tell which photographs and videos are “real”
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Refusing to learn from history is a form of erasing it .
September 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Refusing to learn from history is a form of erasing it .
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Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.
I dreamt I taught a class called “Historicizing Grades.” Topics included the arbitrariness of signs, vowels vs. consonants, the “A Minus” as an oxymoron, and thinking outside the English alphabet. Final project: We worked together to transform a manicured lawn into a wild meadow.
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I dreamt I taught a class called “Historicizing Grades.” Topics included the arbitrariness of signs, vowels vs. consonants, the “A Minus” as an oxymoron, and thinking outside the English alphabet. Final project: We worked together to transform a manicured lawn into a wild meadow.
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If you make an argument for your humanity or presence, you’ve already lost what should never have been in question in the first place.
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If you make an argument for your humanity or presence, you’ve already lost what should never have been in question in the first place.
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.
I am not suicidal. But I have been in the past, and I know that stigmatizing suicidal ideation only makes it worse.
Destigmatize suicidal ideation.
Destigmatize open, compassionate, respectful dialogue about suicide.
I am not suicidal. But I have been in the past, and I know that stigmatizing suicidal ideation only makes it worse.
Destigmatize suicidal ideation.
Destigmatize open, compassionate, respectful dialogue about suicide.
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.
I am not suicidal. But I have been in the past, and I know that stigmatizing suicidal ideation only makes it worse.
Destigmatize suicidal ideation.
Destigmatize open, compassionate, respectful dialogue about suicide.
I am not suicidal. But I have been in the past, and I know that stigmatizing suicidal ideation only makes it worse.
Destigmatize suicidal ideation.
Destigmatize open, compassionate, respectful dialogue about suicide.
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This family has been displaced over 15 times.
September 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This family has been displaced over 15 times.
I couldn’t listen to the survivors of Epstein’s abuse without thinking about my own rape - questions unanswered by his enablers, reports unreleased by Stanford. But I’m glad I did listen, and I’m grateful for their astounding courage, eloquence, and generosity. Solidarity and #MeToo
September 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I couldn’t listen to the survivors of Epstein’s abuse without thinking about my own rape - questions unanswered by his enablers, reports unreleased by Stanford. But I’m glad I did listen, and I’m grateful for their astounding courage, eloquence, and generosity. Solidarity and #MeToo
Navy SEALs killed unarmed North Korean civilians who had been diving for shellfish
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart
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September 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Navy SEALs killed unarmed North Korean civilians who had been diving for shellfish
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
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2. I created this list and it's been viral. Some actions that are not protesting or voting. There's something for everyone on the list. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...
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August 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
2. I created this list and it's been viral. Some actions that are not protesting or voting. There's something for everyone on the list. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The “thing with feathers” was a dinosaur.
Hope was a dinosaur.
Hope was a dinosaur.
September 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The “thing with feathers” was a dinosaur.
Hope was a dinosaur.
Hope was a dinosaur.
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Some of us are still trying to heal from wounds that history pretends never happened. That is why we are tired and angry. Because our voice was never included. We’ve always had to fight to be seen.
August 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Some of us are still trying to heal from wounds that history pretends never happened. That is why we are tired and angry. Because our voice was never included. We’ve always had to fight to be seen.
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Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
September 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times: