Lydia Kwa
@lydiakwa.bsky.social
She/Her. Queer, racialized writer of fiction and poetry. Living and working on unceded Coast Salish territories in the county known as Canada.
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Lydia Kwa
Lydia Kwa was born in Singapore but moved to Toronto to begin studies in Psychology at U of Toronto in 1980. After finishing her graduate studies in Clinical Psychology at Queen's University in Kingst...
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New book of poetry “from time to new” out with The Porcupine’s Quill Press theporcupinesquill.com/products/lyd...
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Canada’s most unique poetry prize: 4 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings in the fall. Please repost!
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2025 Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize
Submit your poetry to the 2025 MURIEL’S JOURNEY POETRY PRIZE. What's Muriel's Journey all about? Find out here PRIZE:First Prize $100 First Prize for a poem by a Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) contributor $100 Second Prize $50 Fortuna's Choice: $35 for a poem selected at random from the longlist of general entry poemsAll winners and honorary mentions will be published in Fire In The Heart, the Muriel’s Journey Chapbook for 2025. CRITERIA: Content: Should meet one or more of these criteria:
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April 19, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Canada’s most unique poetry prize: 4 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings in the fall. Please repost!
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@inkstainedwreck.bsky.social
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Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada
Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada
WASHINGTON, D.C. - With US President Donald Trump declaring 25% tariffs on most Canadian goods, American citizens have officially chosen the most circuitous and economically painful method possible to...
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February 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada
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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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年年有 eSIMs! 🐟
恭喜发 eSIMs! 🧧
万事如 eSims! 🏮
eSims 拿來! 🐍
新年快 free Palestine!
希望 Palestine will be free!
#ConnectingGaza
#YearoftheSnake
恭喜发 eSIMs! 🧧
万事如 eSims! 🏮
eSims 拿來! 🐍
新年快 free Palestine!
希望 Palestine will be free!
#ConnectingGaza
#YearoftheSnake
🧧🐍🎊🏮 Happy #YearOfTheSnake! eSIMS are in more than ever. Help us raise money so people can stay connected. Update from @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social and me
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/01/29/c...
#LunarNewYear
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#LunarNewYear
January 30, 2025 at 5:59 AM
年年有 eSIMs! 🐟
恭喜发 eSIMs! 🧧
万事如 eSims! 🏮
eSims 拿來! 🐍
新年快 free Palestine!
希望 Palestine will be free!
#ConnectingGaza
#YearoftheSnake
恭喜发 eSIMs! 🧧
万事如 eSims! 🏮
eSims 拿來! 🐍
新年快 free Palestine!
希望 Palestine will be free!
#ConnectingGaza
#YearoftheSnake
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A coalition of close to 600 publishers across 50 countries is calling for an industry-wide boycott of the world’s largest publishing event.
Publishers for Palestine calls for industry-wide boycott of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Publishers for Palestine, a coalition of nearly 600 publishers across 50 countries, is calling for an industry-wide boycott of the world’s largest publishing event, the Frankfurt Book Fair, o…
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January 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A coalition of close to 600 publishers across 50 countries is calling for an industry-wide boycott of the world’s largest publishing event.
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RIP Hind Rajab.
Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her.
I will never forget this story.
Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her.
I will never forget this story.
January 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
RIP Hind Rajab.
Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her.
I will never forget this story.
Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her.
I will never forget this story.
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I've donated a hand-watercoloured print of Year of the Wooden Dragon to this art fundraiser for e-Sims for Gaza: www.32auctions.com/ArtforEsimsf...
Lots of amazing art in this auction. Buy some art and support keeping Gaza connected! #permanentceasefire #freepalestine #inkdrawing #asiandiasporicart
Lots of amazing art in this auction. Buy some art and support keeping Gaza connected! #permanentceasefire #freepalestine #inkdrawing #asiandiasporicart
January 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I've donated a hand-watercoloured print of Year of the Wooden Dragon to this art fundraiser for e-Sims for Gaza: www.32auctions.com/ArtforEsimsf...
Lots of amazing art in this auction. Buy some art and support keeping Gaza connected! #permanentceasefire #freepalestine #inkdrawing #asiandiasporicart
Lots of amazing art in this auction. Buy some art and support keeping Gaza connected! #permanentceasefire #freepalestine #inkdrawing #asiandiasporicart
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Read "The Durian Demon" by @lydiakwa.bsky.social in the Wits End issue of Room Magazine! :) Lead-edited by me hehe.
Read "The Durian Demon" by @lydiakwa.bsky.social in the Wits End issue of Room Magazine! :) Lead-edited by me hehe.
“The Durian Demon” by Lydia Kwa (Sneak peek of Room 48.1 WITS END) - ROOM Magazine
As we consider the role of humour in revealing life’s absurdities and challenging power, we’re sitting with “The Durian Demon,” a new fiction piece by Room 48.1 Wits End‘s commissioned writer, Lydia K...
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January 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Read "The Durian Demon" by @lydiakwa.bsky.social in the Wits End issue of Room Magazine! :) Lead-edited by me hehe.
Read "The Durian Demon" by @lydiakwa.bsky.social in the Wits End issue of Room Magazine! :) Lead-edited by me hehe.
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An incredible photo from Berlin this evening.
An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe.
#Resist
(📸 Ricarda Lang)
An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe.
#Resist
(📸 Ricarda Lang)
January 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
An incredible photo from Berlin this evening.
An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe.
#Resist
(📸 Ricarda Lang)
An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe.
#Resist
(📸 Ricarda Lang)
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“The reality is that people are dying from COVID in our hospitals, and we really are doing very little to prevent them getting ill and getting infected. And we wouldn't do the same for any other infectious disease,” Vipond said.
www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/o...
www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/o...
Over 300 COVID outbreaks hit Alberta acute care facilities last year
Read the full story and comment on stalbertgazette.com
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December 15, 2024 at 6:10 PM
“The reality is that people are dying from COVID in our hospitals, and we really are doing very little to prevent them getting ill and getting infected. And we wouldn't do the same for any other infectious disease,” Vipond said.
www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/o...
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"Killing is never OK", says ruling class of nation arming and abetting genocidal mass murder for the past 430 days.
December 12, 2024 at 5:54 PM
"Killing is never OK", says ruling class of nation arming and abetting genocidal mass murder for the past 430 days.
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Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.
Health care accounts for more than 17 per cent of the U.S. economy, or around $4.5 trillion dollars, but the revenues of just two companies—CVS/Aetna and UnitedHealth—account for nearly one in every seven dollars the nation spends on health care.
The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here
Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.
www.newyorker.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.
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A lot of the rich and powerful are obeying in advance. That doesn't mean the rest of us have to. Or rather that means that it's on us not to, and may we wither some of that wealth and power as we go.
“We look forward to working together,” says the owner of TIME Magazine to Donald Trump.
December 13, 2024 at 1:09 AM
A lot of the rich and powerful are obeying in advance. That doesn't mean the rest of us have to. Or rather that means that it's on us not to, and may we wither some of that wealth and power as we go.
Thoughtful and deeply engaged review by Eunice Lim of A Dream
Wants Waking in SUSPECT journal: singaporeunbound.org/suspect
Wants Waking in SUSPECT journal: singaporeunbound.org/suspect
Suspect — Singapore Unbound
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December 11, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Thoughtful and deeply engaged review by Eunice Lim of A Dream
Wants Waking in SUSPECT journal: singaporeunbound.org/suspect
Wants Waking in SUSPECT journal: singaporeunbound.org/suspect
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Wow every day there is a new reason to tell you we are going to have to do this ourselves so here’s a new podcast called Public Health is Dead full of people who know things giving us more guidance about how to stay alive than the government has or will! Coming Nov 29 www.publichealthisdead.com
Public Health Is Dead
New podcast in production
www.publichealthisdead.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Wow every day there is a new reason to tell you we are going to have to do this ourselves so here’s a new podcast called Public Health is Dead full of people who know things giving us more guidance about how to stay alive than the government has or will! Coming Nov 29 www.publichealthisdead.com
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Multiple people have become sick and hospitalized on flights landing in Boston. We need to await more information to fully understand what's happening here, but your regular reminder that one of the most important times to wear a mask is when you are traveling.
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Multiple people have become sick and hospitalized on flights landing in Boston. We need to await more information to fully understand what's happening here, but your regular reminder that one of the most important times to wear a mask is when you are traveling.
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From the other app, the statement from this year’s giller winner claiming morality, solidarity, witness etc etc with empty words that really mean nothing when you can’t even say Palestine
November 19, 2024 at 3:47 AM
From the other app, the statement from this year’s giller winner claiming morality, solidarity, witness etc etc with empty words that really mean nothing when you can’t even say Palestine
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Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 16, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
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Call your senators and demand they block his nomination.
RFK Jr.: “Thank you [to the NIH] for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”
Kennedy wants to take a “break” from studying infectious diseases like COVID-19 and measles.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Kennedy wants to take a “break” from studying infectious diseases like COVID-19 and measles.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research
He has suggested without evidence that researchers and pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit to neglect chronic conditions.
www.nbcnews.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Call your senators and demand they block his nomination.
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@djolder.bsky.social is hosting a workshop for us on narrative fundamentals on December 19th! All proceeds go to Motasim’s family in GZ. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cri...
Crisis Creates Us: Fire at the Crossroads of Art and Activism — Workshops 4 Gaza
Register for “Crisis Creates Us” here . Donate to Motasim here (suggested donation $60USD). The poet Martín Espada wrote that every rebellion begins with the idea that conquerors on hors...
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November 18, 2024 at 4:06 AM
@djolder.bsky.social is hosting a workshop for us on narrative fundamentals on December 19th! All proceeds go to Motasim’s family in GZ. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cri...
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✨ I have started a broad #CanSpec starter pack!
This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…
It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.
ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !
Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !
go.bsky.app/Q7MUTiT
This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…
It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.
ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !
Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !
go.bsky.app/Q7MUTiT
November 17, 2024 at 9:52 PM
✨ I have started a broad #CanSpec starter pack!
This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…
It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.
ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !
Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !
go.bsky.app/Q7MUTiT
This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…
It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.
ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !
Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !
go.bsky.app/Q7MUTiT
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Vaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.
November 15, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Vaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.