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Rohan Zhou-Lee
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Black | Asian | Firebird
Public Speaker | Dancer | Writer | Trumpeter | Community Organizer
www.diaryofafirebird.com
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This Friday, I'm speaking at Princeton University's Gender and Sexuality Resource Center! Merging Movements is a 101 workshop to give guidelines and tools for building solidarity! Learn more on this and my other workshops at www.diaryofafirebird.com/public-speak...

#Speaker #Activism #History
Photo of me in a red hanfu with green plants in the background. Text reads: CAF Fields Fellos X GSRC Peer Educators present... Community Conversations Exploring conversations of social justice, activism, and advocacy Merging Movements with Rohan Zhou-Lee Friday April 18, 2025 12:00-1:30 PM, Carl A. Fields Center (lunch provided) RSVP today at bit.ly/caf-gsrc25 Merging Movements: Using Black and Asian American political theory and history, participants are invited to imagine solidarity-building actions. Presented at The University of Tokyo, Oberlin College, and 2022 Enough Festival in Zürich, Switzerland. Open to all Princeton University students, staff, and faculty regardless of identity. A beige flyer with various photos of me Text reads Writer | Speaker | Organizer Rohan Zhou-Lee www.diaryofafirebird.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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#Journalism #Article #News #Immigration #AsianAmerican
Working on a solutions-based article regarding Asian America and Tr*mp's immigration policies. Looking to interview local leaders, folks who have survived 1CE, pr1son abolition1sts in Asian America (that includes South, West, East, Southeast, Cental, Disabled, LGBTQ+, Mixed Race) For folks' safety, DM me directly 💙
March 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Blasian March Book Fair April 12 is giving out FREE BOOKS to build Black-Asian Solidarity! #Books #Free #Video #Sunday #April #Love #Joy #TikTok #Community #Reading #Black #Asian #Blasian #Afternoon #Care #Happy #Kids #Literature #Giveaway #Chinatown #NewYork #NYC #Manhattan
March 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Me speaking at Queens Public Library for LGBT History Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Check out my workshops and book me to speak at www.diaryofafirebird.com!

#Public #Speaker #Activism #Resistance #LGBT #Joy #Black #Asian #Blasian #TikTok #Bluesky #Instagram #Work #Love #USA #NYC #Trans #NonBinary #Community #LinkedIn
March 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Hanging onto this moment, the closing ceremony for Critical Connections at Pace University.

We are literally watching Musk conduct a coup in real time, and with no political leaders doing anything to stop him, I am trying my best to cling to hope.

#Hope #Music #BlackSky #Asian #Art #Fashion #NYC
February 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 14
#BookSky
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#20DayBookChallenge
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A white book cover with a Black woman's profile wearing a white headway with pink flowers and a black snake covering her face. Text reads They Will Know Her Vengeance Queen of the Conquered Kacen Callender "Kacen seens the world with imagination, insight, and incandescence." Sam J. Miller
January 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Mood board. Can't believe we're here again, but the U.S. has never really taken a deep dive into healing from the horros of white supremacy. #January #Protest #BlueSky
January 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 13 (a week late lol)
#BookSky
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#20DayBookChallenge
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A red book cover showing a person with a keffiyeh on a medical table with a purple black with with green and red poppy flowers. Text reads Rifqa Mohamed El-Kurd Forward by Aja Monet
January 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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RINGS OF POWER X SHADOW AND BONE

When Princess Aiyana is framed for her father's murder, the King's husband sends her after the killers. All alone and only skilled in herbs, she’s no match for them…nor their invasion army.

#P2Ppit #A #Q #F
A vision board of my book, showing top left, a cottage in the woods, a Black woman with in armor and holding a spell book, black text on white background that reads some people play victims of crimes they committies, a silhouette of a giant wolf looking over an armored figure in grey fog, an Asian man in armor, a Black man with locks, a table of herbs, and a bear snarling over a pinned down person.
January 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 12
#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A brown book cover showing a Filipino man with a suit and checkered tie looking diagonally upwards tot he right. Text reads America Is In The Heart A Personal History Carlos Bulosan with a new introduction by Marilyn C. Alquizola and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
January 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 11
#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A black and brown book cover depicting a Haitian man in a dark red coat and hat with two white feathers wielding a gold sabre and riding a white horse. in the background is a black river, dark brown earth, and tall dark green leaves. Text reads Toussaint L'Ouverture The Fight for Haiti's Freedom Paintings by Jacob Lawrence Words by Walter Dean Myers
January 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Fell off the bandwagon, which I will most likely do again, but catching up.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 11
#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A white book cover with a Black woman in a red dress and headwrap. Text reads Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler "Brilliant, endlessly rich...pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale." -- John Green, New York Times With a new forward from award-winning author N.K. Jemisin Winner of a MacArthur Genius Grant
January 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 10
#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A book cover depicting a person with monolid eyes, black hair and black and blue robes sitting on a white and blue cloud above mountains at night. Text reads Neon Yang The Black Tides of Heaven
December 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 9
#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A pink book cover with a Black Chinese Jamaican woman with an afro. Text in yellow and pink reads Crossfire: A Litany for Survival Staceyann Chin Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson
December 22, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 8
#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A black book with a large sitting red silhouette on the left and two smaller white ones on the right. the top right is standing with pants. the second only shows legs and heels. Text in white reads James Baldwin Giovanni's Room.
December 20, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 7
#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A blue cover showing the hands of two boys being held and their mouths very close together. Text between them reads You Brought Me The Ocean. text below reads Lambda Award-Winning Author of So Hard To Say Alex Sanchez New York Times Bestselling Illustrator Julie Maroh
December 17, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 6
#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A black book cover depicting a yellow dandelion growingo ut ofa piece of armor. Text reads The Grace of Kings Ken Liu Winnter of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards
December 15, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 5
#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A red and gold cover of a desert depicting a person with locs facing the sun and their face turned to the left, a thin silhouette of wings extendings from their shoulder blades. Text reads Who Fears Death a novel Nnedi Okorafor
December 14, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 4

#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A light brown book cover showing amouse in chains on rocks in a line with a hedgehog, badger, another mouse, and a squirrel. A stoat and a fox are in the background watching over them and the fox has a red white and flue checkred mask. A canyon in a desert is int he background. Cover reads Redwall Mattimeo by Brian Jacques. Over 20 Million Copies Sold!
December 13, 2024 at 6:26 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 3

#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A grey book cover a Black femme in black flowy clothes and sleeveless top with a dagger. Their right hand touches the back of a cheetah and a man in leather armor walks nex to them. The background shows a port city in a storm. Text reads Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist Kai Ashante Wilson A Taste of Honey "It's great to see a new story that shows that fantasy still has really fascinating places to go." - Charlie Jane Anders
December 11, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 2

#BookSky
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#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A black book cover with a woman with white skin and her back turned but her face is tot he left. A Chinese-instpire dragon sits abover her head. Text of title and author reads ISABEL ALLENDE Hija de la fortuna
December 10, 2024 at 2:20 PM
diaryofafirebird.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 1

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
A book cover showing a South Asian person with long black hair holding up a scroll that's tied with brown twine. Gree leaves, red berries, pink flowers, and bones surround them. Title is The Devourers by Indra Das. A book blur above reads "ASTONISHING." -- M. R. Cary, author of The Girl With All The Gifts
December 10, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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Post a picture of yourself and the character you are in your head!
I couldn't pick just one...so top two?
Photo credit of me: Deb Fong
#Fantasy #BookBlueSky #BlackBlueSky
A brown-skinned Black Asian with curly hair. I'm wearing a purple leather harness with red terno sleeves and white feather wings. A Chinese man in a black and red hanfu with a flue tucked into his belt. A Black woman with black armor with feathers along her pauldrons. She holds a glowing blue sword. Text above reads Niobe She is Death
December 3, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Very proud that my baby Blasian March has an exhibit! Tomorrow, we'll be hosting a panel with the Pace University Art Gallery at 6:30 PM to discuss Blasian March photography and the value of such art in the movement. Come on down at 41 Park Row, New York NY 10038! #Activism #Solidarity #BlackBlueSky
A brown square flyer with a photo of five people smiling. Text in white and black reads Panel Discussion on Blasian March Photography Wednesday, December 4 at 6:30pm with Josh Pacheco, Cindy Trinh, Rohan Zhou-Lee and Stas Ginzburg (L-R, co-curator Sophia Ma also pictured second from R) Critical Connections: Protest Photography Past + Present Pace University Art Gallery 41 Park Row (Spruce Street Entrance) New York, NY 10038)
December 3, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Finally in this new space. Hello! I'm Rohan, gender Firebird and pronouns They | Siya | 祂 | Elle. I'm a journalist, dancer, writer, and community organizer. www.diaryofafirebird.com #DiaryOfAFirebird #journalism #writer #dance
A Black Asian in a red kurta with a grey mask on a street. Text above reads What Asian Americans are doing to fight hate in their communities. Rohan Zhou-Lee created The Blasian March, a movement designed to create Black and Asian solidarity through mutual education and celebration.
November 15, 2024 at 11:22 PM