Lydia Kang
@lydiakang.bsky.social
Professional snacker. Internal med MD. Utterly incapable of staying in one literary lane. (she/her)
📕K-Jane (YA/ Harper Collins, out now!)
https://linktr.ee/lydiakang
📕K-Jane (YA/ Harper Collins, out now!)
https://linktr.ee/lydiakang
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Lydia Kang
@lydiakang.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Hey Bluesky! It’s my book birthday!
Shameless plug to please buy this book about identity and heritage and K-pop and being a grandchild of Korean immigrants AND falling in love?
Thank you!!! 🙏❤️😊
bookshop.org/p/books/k-ja...
Shameless plug to please buy this book about identity and heritage and K-pop and being a grandchild of Korean immigrants AND falling in love?
Thank you!!! 🙏❤️😊
bookshop.org/p/books/k-ja...
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I was listening to Joe Hill on the @ukpageone.bsky.social podcast today, and the way he described simply reading as an act of rebellion really struck me. I was thinking how vital it is we fight for our art going forward (creation = rebellion) and that doing something NEW for yourself is the same.
Playing catchup as I thought I had an extra day before my last Japanese lesson of the year, but わたしはまいにちにほんごをはなします。
(I mean that is true, not just what the textbook exercise tells me to write out, but - hot damn is this good for me. Start learn a new language in 2026, your brain will love it!)
(I mean that is true, not just what the textbook exercise tells me to write out, but - hot damn is this good for me. Start learn a new language in 2026, your brain will love it!)
I should do my Japanese homework, I say!
One hour later I have done one page and my brain hurts, but goddamit, わたしのともだちはにほんにいきます！
One hour later I have done one page and my brain hurts, but goddamit, わたしのともだちはにほんにいきます！
December 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I was listening to Joe Hill on the @ukpageone.bsky.social podcast today, and the way he described simply reading as an act of rebellion really struck me. I was thinking how vital it is we fight for our art going forward (creation = rebellion) and that doing something NEW for yourself is the same.
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Jake says "I hope the world won't be so terrible next year"
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Jake says "I hope the world won't be so terrible next year"
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If you’d like to learn infinitely more than the eugenicists running our healthcare, do yourself a solid and get a copy of Patient Zero by Dr. Lydia Kang. It has everything the worm-brained asshole doesn’t know. #EducateYourself @lydiakang.bsky.social is a phenomenal author!
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If you’d like to learn infinitely more than the eugenicists running our healthcare, do yourself a solid and get a copy of Patient Zero by Dr. Lydia Kang. It has everything the worm-brained asshole doesn’t know. #EducateYourself @lydiakang.bsky.social is a phenomenal author!
My turn to host bookclub next month.
Hit me with your book recs!
Hit me with your book recs!
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
My turn to host bookclub next month.
Hit me with your book recs!
Hit me with your book recs!
Am now fantasizing how to sneak this into the homes of my enemies
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Am now fantasizing how to sneak this into the homes of my enemies
Here’s a possum that’s been hanging out under my deck at night.
(We found out what the dogs were barking at!)
For your perusal.
I am a big fan.
(We found out what the dogs were barking at!)
For your perusal.
I am a big fan.
December 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Here’s a possum that’s been hanging out under my deck at night.
(We found out what the dogs were barking at!)
For your perusal.
I am a big fan.
(We found out what the dogs were barking at!)
For your perusal.
I am a big fan.
Even if the mom doesn't have Hep B doesn't mean a newborn won't pick it up somewhere else (a caregiver, a family member, another kid in daycare, via a microscopic scratch) so stop with the "newborns aren't sexually active so why does this matter?"
publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/why-hep...
publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/why-hep...
Why Hepatitis B Vaccination Begins at Birth | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Hepatitis B vaccines are the best way to protect vulnerable infants from developing chronic, life-threatening disease.
publichealth.jhu.edu
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Even if the mom doesn't have Hep B doesn't mean a newborn won't pick it up somewhere else (a caregiver, a family member, another kid in daycare, via a microscopic scratch) so stop with the "newborns aren't sexually active so why does this matter?"
publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/why-hep...
publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/why-hep...
Facts: The universal hepatitis B birth dose has prevented more than 500,000 childhood infections, reduced infant hepatitis B cases by 95%, and prevented an estimated 90,100 childhood deaths (NFID).
RJK is the opposite of "Do No Harm"
RJK is the opposite of "Do No Harm"
CDC panel makes most sweeping revision to child vaccine schedule under RFK Jr.
The panel voted to eliminate a long-standing recommendation for every newborn to receive a hepatitis B shot, saying it’s unnecessary when the mother tests negative.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Facts: The universal hepatitis B birth dose has prevented more than 500,000 childhood infections, reduced infant hepatitis B cases by 95%, and prevented an estimated 90,100 childhood deaths (NFID).
RJK is the opposite of "Do No Harm"
RJK is the opposite of "Do No Harm"
Last day of November, so let’s talk about the famous Witch of November of the Great Lakes!
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last day of November, so let’s talk about the famous Witch of November of the Great Lakes!
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Writers (and illustrators!): Take regular breaks away from the keyboard. HERE'S WHY. #WriterSky
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Writers (and illustrators!): Take regular breaks away from the keyboard. HERE'S WHY. #WriterSky
I have always been transparent bc aspiring writers need to know.
I never quit my day job as a part-time physician. Spouse works full time.
Writing is gig work. Some years are great. Some years are not. There is a lot of hustle and diversifying to keep all the plates spinning.
I never quit my day job as a part-time physician. Spouse works full time.
Writing is gig work. Some years are great. Some years are not. There is a lot of hustle and diversifying to keep all the plates spinning.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I have always been transparent bc aspiring writers need to know.
I never quit my day job as a part-time physician. Spouse works full time.
Writing is gig work. Some years are great. Some years are not. There is a lot of hustle and diversifying to keep all the plates spinning.
I never quit my day job as a part-time physician. Spouse works full time.
Writing is gig work. Some years are great. Some years are not. There is a lot of hustle and diversifying to keep all the plates spinning.
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To echo much of what's been said:
Please don't pirate books.
If you can't pay for a book, there is already a solution for you: use a library.
Whatever you think authors, illustrators, and other book career people make, it's less than that. By a lot. Stealing from us isn't heroic, it's crushing.
Please don't pirate books.
If you can't pay for a book, there is already a solution for you: use a library.
Whatever you think authors, illustrators, and other book career people make, it's less than that. By a lot. Stealing from us isn't heroic, it's crushing.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
To echo much of what's been said:
Please don't pirate books.
If you can't pay for a book, there is already a solution for you: use a library.
Whatever you think authors, illustrators, and other book career people make, it's less than that. By a lot. Stealing from us isn't heroic, it's crushing.
Please don't pirate books.
If you can't pay for a book, there is already a solution for you: use a library.
Whatever you think authors, illustrators, and other book career people make, it's less than that. By a lot. Stealing from us isn't heroic, it's crushing.
This is infuriating. We are shepherds for the voiceless, including the pollinators that we need to help grow our own food. (But also--they need to exist for their own sake!) Not to mention PFAS is a very terrible thing in the human food chain.
UGH.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
UGH.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Trump EPA Approves Its Second ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide in Two Weeks
The Environmental Protection Agency today approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram for golf courses, lawns and food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, and oats. The pesticid...
biologicaldiversity.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is infuriating. We are shepherds for the voiceless, including the pollinators that we need to help grow our own food. (But also--they need to exist for their own sake!) Not to mention PFAS is a very terrible thing in the human food chain.
UGH.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
UGH.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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OMG!!! 😭 I am speechless and humbled and thrilled and delighted
AND TODAY IS MY ACTUAL LITERAL BIRTHDAY
so this is extra special 💚 thank you all so much for supporting my effort here and thank you doubly, triply for supporting these awesome kids ✨😭
engage.treehouseforkids.org/fundraiser/6...
AND TODAY IS MY ACTUAL LITERAL BIRTHDAY
so this is extra special 💚 thank you all so much for supporting my effort here and thank you doubly, triply for supporting these awesome kids ✨😭
engage.treehouseforkids.org/fundraiser/6...
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
OMG!!! 😭 I am speechless and humbled and thrilled and delighted
AND TODAY IS MY ACTUAL LITERAL BIRTHDAY
so this is extra special 💚 thank you all so much for supporting my effort here and thank you doubly, triply for supporting these awesome kids ✨😭
engage.treehouseforkids.org/fundraiser/6...
AND TODAY IS MY ACTUAL LITERAL BIRTHDAY
so this is extra special 💚 thank you all so much for supporting my effort here and thank you doubly, triply for supporting these awesome kids ✨😭
engage.treehouseforkids.org/fundraiser/6...
Reposted by Lydia Kang
Formerly with Teen Vogue. A brilliant writer/editor.
redid my personal site post-layoff :)
my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)
my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)
Lex McMenamin
Lex McMenamin is a writer, editor, and organizer from Philadelphia, based in New York.
lexmcmenamin.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Formerly with Teen Vogue. A brilliant writer/editor.
I wrote and essay on being GenX and looking back at John Hughes—whose movies we grew up with but don’t unequivocally love anymore.
thenerddaily.com/lydia-kang-a...
thenerddaily.com/lydia-kang-a...
Gen-X and John Hughes: A Tale of Love and Hate | The Nerd Daily
Guest post by K-Jane author Lydia Kang Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School ...
thenerddaily.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I wrote and essay on being GenX and looking back at John Hughes—whose movies we grew up with but don’t unequivocally love anymore.
thenerddaily.com/lydia-kang-a...
thenerddaily.com/lydia-kang-a...
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
Wow, this post is going slightly viral on TikTok.
Some folks are so triggered by seeing a person wearing a mask.
🙄
(happy to report that most people are supportive or in agreement!)
Some folks are so triggered by seeing a person wearing a mask.
🙄
(happy to report that most people are supportive or in agreement!)
I have books to write and people to take care of. I don’t have time to get Covid or a cold!
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Wow, this post is going slightly viral on TikTok.
Some folks are so triggered by seeing a person wearing a mask.
🙄
(happy to report that most people are supportive or in agreement!)
Some folks are so triggered by seeing a person wearing a mask.
🙄
(happy to report that most people are supportive or in agreement!)
I have books to write and people to take care of. I don’t have time to get Covid or a cold!
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I have books to write and people to take care of. I don’t have time to get Covid or a cold!
Thank you! It was an absolute blast writing these serialized stories for SW Insider! For Light and Life!
Thank you Lydia Kang @lydiakang.bsky.social for writing "Tales from the Occlusion Zone: No Big Deal", "TftOZ: Friend or Foe?", "TftOZ: Survivors", "TftOZ: Pathogen", "TftOZ: Family Ties", "TftOZ: The Fate of Eriadu", "TftOZ: Sparks Fly", "TftOZ: Out with a Bang" and "TftOZ: The Will to Fight"!
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Thank you! It was an absolute blast writing these serialized stories for SW Insider! For Light and Life!
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Just finished K-Jane, I loved it.
I laughed, I teared up, I cringed with second hand embarrassment, I heard my inner mom voice say "do your homework".
And now I am hungry for Korean food.
Definitely recommend for the teens in your life!
I laughed, I teared up, I cringed with second hand embarrassment, I heard my inner mom voice say "do your homework".
And now I am hungry for Korean food.
Definitely recommend for the teens in your life!
Hey Bluesky! It’s my book birthday!
Shameless plug to please buy this book about identity and heritage and K-pop and being a grandchild of Korean immigrants AND falling in love?
Thank you!!! 🙏❤️😊
bookshop.org/p/books/k-ja...
Shameless plug to please buy this book about identity and heritage and K-pop and being a grandchild of Korean immigrants AND falling in love?
Thank you!!! 🙏❤️😊
bookshop.org/p/books/k-ja...
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just finished K-Jane, I loved it.
I laughed, I teared up, I cringed with second hand embarrassment, I heard my inner mom voice say "do your homework".
And now I am hungry for Korean food.
Definitely recommend for the teens in your life!
I laughed, I teared up, I cringed with second hand embarrassment, I heard my inner mom voice say "do your homework".
And now I am hungry for Korean food.
Definitely recommend for the teens in your life!
Found two interesting things in the woods!
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Found two interesting things in the woods!
I am bummed I missed the Aurora borealis but hope to see it tonight in Baltimore. Wish me luck!
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I am bummed I missed the Aurora borealis but hope to see it tonight in Baltimore. Wish me luck!