Sharon Yam
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Sharon Yam
@sharonyamsy.bsky.social
Diasporic HongKonger. Rhetoric professor at the University of Kentucky

Teacher, writer, and book author on feminism, repro justice, and social movements

Bylines in NYT, Foreign Policy, and more

Books: Inconvenient Strangers; Doing Gender Justice
Congratulations @radicalcatalyst.bsky.social for publishing their first issue! Immensely grateful that the editor includes my poem "So You Want to be a Colonizer" as the very first piece.
Read it here: radicalcatalystjournal.org/issue1_1.html
July 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Lunar new year celebration with my chosen family 🐍

@lecagle.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Trump may be "anti-China" but he is using the Chinese gov's playbook of forcing federal workers to pledge allegiance to authoritarianism or quit.

Trump's version: “enhanced standards of conduct” would be applied to ensure that workers were “reliable, loyal, trustworthy”

Hong Kong's version:
January 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The first copy of our book is now in my hands!

I am eternally grateful to my co-author and dear friend Natalie for doing this work with me amidst pandemic lockdown and beyond.
January 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM