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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who do y'all think was more racist, HP Lovecraft or Agatha Christie?

Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i love (read: hate) when ppl list clothing as "free size" or "one size fits all" or "oversized" and when you ask for clarification it's a size M, maybe L at best

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

he just identified 花椒 in the forest ????

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love the small moments when you remember that these bad AI verticals are all made in China. Like where did this blonde white twink learn to make 叫化鸡

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is a drag queen in a throuple on the new season of Bake Off with Nigella, they're really targeting the f@gs this season

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Learning who serene_necrosis is is the only good thing to come out of this lesbian bar disk horse. "Hijab-inspired secular accessory"??? "Drinking milk is appropriating Irish culture"??? "People of color is a slur"??? All time bangers. Give them the Nobel Peace Prize

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Him series by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy walked so that the Game Changer series could run

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

pointer finger is masc, middle finger is gender neutral, ring and pinky are femme. i will not be taking any further questions at this time

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

writing slides on fashion, self-presentation, and subculture, and unironically ready to tell my students "back in MY day, when we said emo we meant SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE"

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anti-colonial praxis is replacing my old Zojirushi rice cooker with a Cuckoo

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Petition for Lisa to rebrand as Lalisa so it's easier to Google her

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy birthday, Canada! (Carly Rae Jepsen's new album comes out today)

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Concept: a Juno sequel that's a gender swapped Transamerica. Julian (formerly Juno) runs into his biological daughter (who also transed bc Juno gives birth to a boy in the first movie) and has to pretend he's not her birth father. Someone get me on the phone with Hollywood STAT

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is how I found out that (1) garbage are still around and (2) they're absolutely BASED

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A Beijing accent is the Mandarin equivalent of a New Yawk accent send tweet

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really played myself with this seminar class. I assigned my students to read Barthes, which means I also have to reread Barthes

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can't believe Miranda Priestly invented cerulean in 2006

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whoever said Gen Z is so woke that they've just circled back to being conservative was so right

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Someone should write about how Wasian discourse went from "proximity to whiteness" to race science and blood quantum. Not me but someone

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rachel Dolezal reentering the news cycle is a recession indicator

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

my hot take is that i thought camp miasma was a better "trans allegory" than tv glow

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My high school wasn't as Korean. They lived on the other side of the Potomac 😂

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mean Girls except the Plastics went to Chinese school and Sunday service every weekend

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Their Facebook profile is just photos bible quotes and photos of their kids and suburban mcmansions

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They went to state university for pre-med after high school only to marry a rich Taiwanese doctor and settle down with kids by the age of 28

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Still traumatized by the Taiwanese mean girls in my high school with names like Esther and Yvonne

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There are exactly two types of people named Esther in the States. First is a woman from a culturally Jewish but not super religious family. Second is a woman from an evangelical Christian family that immigrated from South Korea or maybe Taiwan five years ago.

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As an American who moved to Canada, the fact that there are Canadian MAGA will never cease to astound me

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i had to explain to a friend that yes, i am from washington dc, no, i'm not from the west coast

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

y'all i have news for you. every country is shit at geography outside of their immediate region. do you know how many Canadians I've talked to who don't know American geography and we're literally neighbours lol. it's not just Americans

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

people from the UK will make fun of Americans not knowing British accents or UK culture and then mistake someone who is clearly Canadian as American

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026

speaking as a bisexual … it kinda is tho

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Taking the Skytrain for the first time in months just so I can feel something

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Canada really is bizarro world. I fully watched someone jaywalk across a super busy street and not a single driver honked at them

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Watched a video of a Long Island Italian woman cooking and I'm east-coast-pilled again

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Third Culture Kid (east coast asian living on the west coast)

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Summer in the PNW has fully west-coast-pilled me. I'm so sorry east coast

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Are we supposed to throw loonies and toonies at the queens or just tip them in 5s and up?

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

like y'all got me DEFENDING AMERICA. do you know how much that goes against my morals????

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

being an American in Canada during the tariff wars is such an interesting experience

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I can excuse toque but I draw the line at pencil crayon

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Omg thing you Canucks will never get me to say is pencil crayons

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Crowdsourcing: Any suggestions for a good text on Mar a Lago face that I can assign for a class? (Doesn't have to be academic!)

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In a way, it's kind of ironic that people misuse the term death of the author to mean something completely different from what Barthes was originally arguing

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