Vina Orden
@hyffeinated.bsky.social
She/her/siya. Writer, editor, and immigrants’ rights and human rights advocate. 2024 Roots. Wounds. Words. YA Fellow; 2022 Tin House YA Workshop, AAWW Open City Fellow, and Kweli Sing The Truth YA Mentee. Editor, Slant’d Lit Mag.
I’m currently reading Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People” 💙
August 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’m currently reading Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People” 💙
Also preorder Jill’s memoir, out in May www.simonandschuster.com/books/Dirty-...
Dirty Kitchen
In the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way ...
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March 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Also preorder Jill’s memoir, out in May www.simonandschuster.com/books/Dirty-...
This strikes a chord, growing up in the Cordilleras, overrun by gold mines when the US colonized the Philippines. It’s unsurprising Trump idolizes McKinley & TR—white settler colonizers who robbed generations of Filipinos of our sovereignty. I’m for Ukraine & against colonizers. 💙💛✊🏽
March 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This strikes a chord, growing up in the Cordilleras, overrun by gold mines when the US colonized the Philippines. It’s unsurprising Trump idolizes McKinley & TR—white settler colonizers who robbed generations of Filipinos of our sovereignty. I’m for Ukraine & against colonizers. 💙💛✊🏽
It’s embarrassing seeing childish bullies gang up on a leader of a country that was once our ally & just like Putin, try to strong-arm Ukraine into giving over rights to American companies for lithium, titanium, and other deposits made rare on earth by our capitalist consumerist society.
Trump and Zelensky Get Into Shouting Match in Oval Office: Full Video
President Trump, in a raised voice, told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “you’re gambling with World War III” during a contentious Oval Office meeting.
www.wsj.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
It’s embarrassing seeing childish bullies gang up on a leader of a country that was once our ally & just like Putin, try to strong-arm Ukraine into giving over rights to American companies for lithium, titanium, and other deposits made rare on earth by our capitalist consumerist society.
How to boycott:
• DON'T shop online or in-store, particularly on Amazon, Walmart, or Best Buy
• DON'T spend money on fast food, gas, or major retailers
• DON'T use credit or debit cards for non-essential spending
• ONLY BUY essentials
• ONLY support your small, local businesses IF you must
• DON'T shop online or in-store, particularly on Amazon, Walmart, or Best Buy
• DON'T spend money on fast food, gas, or major retailers
• DON'T use credit or debit cards for non-essential spending
• ONLY BUY essentials
• ONLY support your small, local businesses IF you must
February 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
How to boycott:
• DON'T shop online or in-store, particularly on Amazon, Walmart, or Best Buy
• DON'T spend money on fast food, gas, or major retailers
• DON'T use credit or debit cards for non-essential spending
• ONLY BUY essentials
• ONLY support your small, local businesses IF you must
• DON'T shop online or in-store, particularly on Amazon, Walmart, or Best Buy
• DON'T spend money on fast food, gas, or major retailers
• DON'T use credit or debit cards for non-essential spending
• ONLY BUY essentials
• ONLY support your small, local businesses IF you must
Working and middle-class people don't need to put our hard-earned money into the pockets of anti-union/anti-labor billionaires like Jeff Bezos. Join me in nationwide boycotts, starting 12 a.m. midnight Thu., Feb. 27 to 12 a.m. midnight Fri., Feb. 28.
February 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Working and middle-class people don't need to put our hard-earned money into the pockets of anti-union/anti-labor billionaires like Jeff Bezos. Join me in nationwide boycotts, starting 12 a.m. midnight Thu., Feb. 27 to 12 a.m. midnight Fri., Feb. 28.
Poets, you have until Jan. 15 to submit to the online gallery—visit the website (natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org) for more information!
The Nature of Our Times
Call for Submissions. Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org
January 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Poets, you have until Jan. 15 to submit to the online gallery—visit the website (natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org) for more information!
My #poetry, “Time Machine” natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/time-machine/ and “Ghosts” natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/ghosts/ explore human relations and the impact of systems and structures we’ve created (including globalization and capitalism) on the natural world we co-inhabit #litmag
Time Machine - The Nature of Our Times
To reach Mother on the mainland Empire, we flew paper planes to Henry Hudson Hotel— stopover for foreign nurses enlisted at $7 an hour in the War on AIDS. We the pacified wards of the First World— our...
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org
January 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My #poetry, “Time Machine” natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/time-machine/ and “Ghosts” natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/ghosts/ explore human relations and the impact of systems and structures we’ve created (including globalization and capitalism) on the natural world we co-inhabit #litmag
Since Marvel released “The United States of Captain America,” featuring “local Cap” Ari Agbayani, I’ve questioned this kind of representation—especially given the historical and continued exploitation of Filipina women’s/trans women’s bodies by members of the US military. #JenniferLaude
January 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Since Marvel released “The United States of Captain America,” featuring “local Cap” Ari Agbayani, I’ve questioned this kind of representation—especially given the historical and continued exploitation of Filipina women’s/trans women’s bodies by members of the US military. #JenniferLaude