stop romanticizing palm trees
@lisaskwon.bsky.social
luxury is for the people...heaven’s gate is a butterfly door 🏎 💸 • writer with bylines in Teen Vogue, Vulture, Dirt, blah blah • lisa.s.kwon@gmail.com
the great darkening has arrived. read my convo with Sam Bloch about his new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and let us all get shade-pilled 🚫🌴
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It’s Only Getting Hotter | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lisa Kwon talks with Sam Bloch about his new book “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.”
lareviewofbooks.org
July 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
the great darkening has arrived. read my convo with Sam Bloch about his new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and let us all get shade-pilled 🚫🌴
lareviewofbooks.org/article/its-...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/its-...
new substack post on a little songbird, greenwashing the good things out of our lives, the police state
pc: Jabz Gallo (a new friend and founding member of Save the Vireo
justacity.substack.com/p/migratory-...
pc: Jabz Gallo (a new friend and founding member of Save the Vireo
justacity.substack.com/p/migratory-...
Migratory birds don't know borders the way we obsess over them
...así que todavía estamos dispuestos a seguir hasta la victoria
justacity.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
new substack post on a little songbird, greenwashing the good things out of our lives, the police state
pc: Jabz Gallo (a new friend and founding member of Save the Vireo
justacity.substack.com/p/migratory-...
pc: Jabz Gallo (a new friend and founding member of Save the Vireo
justacity.substack.com/p/migratory-...
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this made me cry. rios i was not familiar with your game
June 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
this made me cry. rios i was not familiar with your game
new substack post about @ LA Scanner, who many of us relied on for realtime updates during our January wildfires. this is about "cop watchers" who deputize themselves as lone heroes
i enjoyed writing this one. this is the kind of LA stuff ill keep posting
justacity.substack.com/p/a-scanner-...
i enjoyed writing this one. this is the kind of LA stuff ill keep posting
justacity.substack.com/p/a-scanner-...
A Scanner Darkly
On LA Scanner, community surveillance, our January wildfires
justacity.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
new substack post about @ LA Scanner, who many of us relied on for realtime updates during our January wildfires. this is about "cop watchers" who deputize themselves as lone heroes
i enjoyed writing this one. this is the kind of LA stuff ill keep posting
justacity.substack.com/p/a-scanner-...
i enjoyed writing this one. this is the kind of LA stuff ill keep posting
justacity.substack.com/p/a-scanner-...
i made a substack to chip away at what LA is/isn't + share occasional cultural commentary. my first post is about the Hongdae Boys, made viral in April. Leave Hongdae Boys alone/i wish people would worry on understanding their own desires/ur being racist
justacity.substack.com/p/to-all-the...
justacity.substack.com/p/to-all-the...
To All the Hongdae Boys I’ve Loved Before
A straight-coded post on desire plus an intro.
justacity.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
i made a substack to chip away at what LA is/isn't + share occasional cultural commentary. my first post is about the Hongdae Boys, made viral in April. Leave Hongdae Boys alone/i wish people would worry on understanding their own desires/ur being racist
justacity.substack.com/p/to-all-the...
justacity.substack.com/p/to-all-the...
doing my best
April 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
doing my best
today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. I interviewed poet @cathylinhche.bsky.social about her new book of poetry reflecting on her parents’ work as extras on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and American myth-making of the war impulsemagazine.com/symposium/be...
“Becoming Ghost” with Cathy Linh Che — IMPULSE Magazine
Che’s latest collection of poems looks at the American myth-making that shaped public memory of the Vietnam War.
impulsemagazine.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. I interviewed poet @cathylinhche.bsky.social about her new book of poetry reflecting on her parents’ work as extras on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and American myth-making of the war impulsemagazine.com/symposium/be...
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I’m always interested in work that situates big-time sports in our larger culture.
This seems pretty deft.
This seems pretty deft.
pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...
Astria Suparak On The Politics Of Sport
Astria Suparak speaks about how sports and the arts are not mutually exclusive sources of inquiry and criticism of our political and cultural spheres.
www.thepolisproject.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I’m always interested in work that situates big-time sports in our larger culture.
This seems pretty deft.
This seems pretty deft.
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things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻
Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE
“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.”
“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.”
Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE
“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.” Occidental College students are engaged in a hunger strike to protest heightened policing on cam...
lapublicpress.org
April 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻
things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻
Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE
“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.”
“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.”
Occidental students launch hunger strike to support Palestine, protest ICE
“We recognize the severity of this action, and we feel that it matches the severity of this situation.” Occidental College students are engaged in a hunger strike to protest heightened policing on cam...
lapublicpress.org
April 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻
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After one of the WILDEST council exchanges in recent memory, with councilmembers accusing each other of making backroom deals (!!!), LA's Olympic wage passes 12-3, guaranteeing LA's tourism workers a minimum wage increase to $30/hour by 2028
My previous story: www.torched.la/the-olympic-...
My previous story: www.torched.la/the-olympic-...
December 11, 2024 at 11:21 PM
After one of the WILDEST council exchanges in recent memory, with councilmembers accusing each other of making backroom deals (!!!), LA's Olympic wage passes 12-3, guaranteeing LA's tourism workers a minimum wage increase to $30/hour by 2028
My previous story: www.torched.la/the-olympic-...
My previous story: www.torched.la/the-olympic-...
pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...
Astria Suparak On The Politics Of Sport
Astria Suparak speaks about how sports and the arts are not mutually exclusive sources of inquiry and criticism of our political and cultural spheres.
www.thepolisproject.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:02 PM
pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...
it be two girls at happy hour going “i can’t cry, i intellectualize my grief”
December 4, 2024 at 4:17 AM
it be two girls at happy hour going “i can’t cry, i intellectualize my grief”
when an editor says i came back with strong reporting + writing... im better than you
December 2, 2024 at 9:05 PM
when an editor says i came back with strong reporting + writing... im better than you
waist deep in pow!! surfs up in mammoth
November 26, 2024 at 11:45 PM
waist deep in pow!! surfs up in mammoth
i love being inaccessible
November 25, 2024 at 11:06 PM
i love being inaccessible
she’s writing about ktown again..a return to form 🤷🏻♀️ my essay on sickly housing concept art for cusper magazine open.substack.com/pub/cusperma...
On Housing Concept Art
By Lisa Kwon
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November 25, 2024 at 8:21 PM
she’s writing about ktown again..a return to form 🤷🏻♀️ my essay on sickly housing concept art for cusper magazine open.substack.com/pub/cusperma...
follow me if you cannot stand simu liu
November 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM
follow me if you cannot stand simu liu
i am struggling to find a home for a piece I’d like to write about the psychic damage Koreans have endured ten years after Seth Rogen’s The Interview came out. that film cycle needs a proper critical reappraisal but I don’t think people care to hear how much Obama is at fault for Korean relations!!!
November 19, 2024 at 11:28 PM
i am struggling to find a home for a piece I’d like to write about the psychic damage Koreans have endured ten years after Seth Rogen’s The Interview came out. that film cycle needs a proper critical reappraisal but I don’t think people care to hear how much Obama is at fault for Korean relations!!!
i will not gatekeep but you will have to ask me where it’s from
![seolleontang (설렁탕) from [REDACTED] in Koreatown](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fgfijn35wevd6x43sosqrimo/bafkreicdypwopa5yp7tg26tzrxhp3t6pzwjbykwyllmfw5bep5dxf4osye@jpeg)
November 18, 2024 at 11:11 PM
i will not gatekeep but you will have to ask me where it’s from
in a first, cried while interviewing someone today. if you tenderly show me a picture of your late wife and tell me how much you miss her, bye 😭 Im a writer second, Aries first
November 15, 2024 at 8:01 AM
in a first, cried while interviewing someone today. if you tenderly show me a picture of your late wife and tell me how much you miss her, bye 😭 Im a writer second, Aries first
you may be an LA cultural icon and creative shapeshifter but in the end we are all the same, made of flesh and bones, that a dog just wants to cuddle up on
November 14, 2024 at 7:30 AM
you may be an LA cultural icon and creative shapeshifter but in the end we are all the same, made of flesh and bones, that a dog just wants to cuddle up on
im so thrilled that i reached out to hanif abdurraqib to talk (so tenderly!) about his wild sneaker collection because the world needs to know
also, chris paul WOULD make a great poet
youtu.be/bNyskgDYYRc?...
also, chris paul WOULD make a great poet
youtu.be/bNyskgDYYRc?...
Hanif Abdurraqib | Flight Club: Friends & Family
YouTube video by Flight Club
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November 13, 2024 at 7:45 AM
im so thrilled that i reached out to hanif abdurraqib to talk (so tenderly!) about his wild sneaker collection because the world needs to know
also, chris paul WOULD make a great poet
youtu.be/bNyskgDYYRc?...
also, chris paul WOULD make a great poet
youtu.be/bNyskgDYYRc?...
sorry to my friends mel, carol, jazz for blowing up the spot you used to grow up frequenting, but a legend is a legend
read my latest on Pasadena's Top Restaurant (YES, THAT IS THE NAME) for Eater LA
la.eater.com/2024/2/23/24...
read my latest on Pasadena's Top Restaurant (YES, THAT IS THE NAME) for Eater LA
la.eater.com/2024/2/23/24...
February 23, 2024 at 8:03 PM
sorry to my friends mel, carol, jazz for blowing up the spot you used to grow up frequenting, but a legend is a legend
read my latest on Pasadena's Top Restaurant (YES, THAT IS THE NAME) for Eater LA
la.eater.com/2024/2/23/24...
read my latest on Pasadena's Top Restaurant (YES, THAT IS THE NAME) for Eater LA
la.eater.com/2024/2/23/24...