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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I much prefer here too but if we want to persuade...

Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The issue is there's less traffic from the public here so it doesn't make as much sense here for activists because you don't get the general masses yet. It's really great for academics though, or ideas circulation/ thought-leadership.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I mean for me also. I was active but NOT THAT active.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

612係香港人真正覺醒嘅一日。第一次有人真切感受到，守法唔等於安全，和平唔會換嚟對話。政府根本唔會聽你講。而大家開始明白，civil disobedience嘅必要。

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

That peaceful protest alone was not enough. That civil disobedience was not chaos. It was necessary.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

June 12, 2019, was a wild awakening for Hong Kongers. What began as peaceful resistance was met with tear gas, rubber bullets, and batons. Protesters were students, workers, elders. Armed only with umbrellas and makeshift goggles. It was the moment many realized the government would not listen.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Anyone else on Threads? Holy smokes. The platform is so toxic.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I bought this t-shirt at the Tiananmen Mothers stand in Hong Kong's Victoria Park one June 4th and wore it on a number of other June 4ths. Now if I wear it, especially today, another June 4th... I'll attract unwanted police attention and might even get arrested for doing so.

"Support The Tiananmen Mothers" and an image of a motherly woman with a flower in her hand standing in front of tanks on the front of a t-shirt

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

In 1989, students and workers gathered in Tiananmen Square to demand freedom and reform. The Chinese military opened fire on civilians. To this day, the exact number of deaths is still unknown.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

June 4. I came from a place that once lit candles. Now, even public remembrance is banned in Hong Kong. Those in power want to silence history. We cannot let them. If we still have the freedom to remember, then we must.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Actually, instead of staying quiet, it'd be helpful to use your platform to quote and amplify voices that need the boost. 🙌🏻

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We are honestly living in the shittiest timeline.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Stop trying to make Hong Konger's advocacy issues partisan.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We need to learn about the past.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

There's different political stripes, and then there's evil. What we're seeing now, is evil.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The uncomfortable truth is that many Hong Kongers (also Canadians & others) don’t truly believe in checks & balances, freedom of expression, or democracy. They embrace them only when it serves their side. When it doesn’t, they see them as obstacles/barriers. There are no principles.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Stop buying into US disinformation about Canada.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The trade war/ tariffs flipflop had us all confused.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Why is Canadian media headlining with NO TRAITORS in the foreign interference inquiry is just baffling to me. The report clearly says there are legitimate problematic and ethical concerns exhibited. Why isn't that alarming? Are we reading the same thing??

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

How do you build a Nation without its people? Without resources? Without talent? If nation-building is the goal, why tear each other down? Why belittle those who support but are just trying to survive? What are you really focusing on? I'm saddened by the state of my community.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I laugh because this is so true.

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The idea that joining xiaohongshu is sticking it to the man and that Chinese people all eat lobster for lunch is just so dumb it makes my head hurt.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

On "REDNote" (Little Red Book) one side can criticize its government, while the other cannot. This naturally skews conversations disproportionately. And yes, this unfortunately needs to be said because too many folks with a Western-centric lens just do not get it.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Western audiences, viewing everything through a Western lens, are eating up and believing all the content that slips through censorship. Just like Asian aunties believing everything on social media. No. media. literacy. They’ve never had to grapple with the Great Firewall.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

What’s worse? State actors & big money are seizing this chaos as the perfect opportunity. Fun. PRC narratives & disinformation are spreading like hotcakes. One side has a regime that can shut it all down. The other? A bunch of Western goons either flailing/capitalizing on it.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Different sides are suddenly colliding w/ regulations, worldviews, complex societal structures & on-the-ground realities they don’t fully grasp. No one with a nuanced take is helping navigate it. People are thrown headfirst into curated censored content & weaponized narratives.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

There’s a wildly sophisticated propaganda campaign unfolding regarding Little Red Book (quickly rebranded to REDNote btw - media literacy anyone?), and the discourse is split between red-scare screaming alarmists and 'the West is always lying' apologists. Insanity.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Lol oh they do. And they've migrated.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This was way before all of his attacks on Canada. Current temperature check: they still are very much on the wagon and don't understand.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Speaking from a comms/strategy POV, this photo & tweet reveals that Chrystia Freeland doesn't have a team that knows what it's doing. How did this go out? 4 phones is the opposite of populist appeal. 3 cups for tea refills? Decrepit table? Didn't bother to turn around to look at us? Chaos

Tweet from Chrystia Freeland described in the thread

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Lol wow that's not what she said in the interview.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

When white 'leftists' have a total lack of solidarity w/ *their exact equivalents* in China - who are censored, persecuted, in prison, dead, or hiding - I'm talking community organisers, labour activists, indigenous & decolonial activists, feminists, queer advocates... they are doing A Racism. Deal.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Some people don't understand soft power and it shows.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This got to me. It was my grandma's hood.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

They're not even the HK MAGA crowd. It's just everyday folks who have these sentiments which are really, really alarming and raises eyebrows.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I say new newcomers cuz these are folks who came here for less than a year. There are some older newcomers 1-3 years who would ask the same, but some are starting to get it. Before folks jump on them please remember abt information disparity and information circles.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

You know the other day I was surrounded by new newcomers (most were HKers) who asked me (and we're semi-complaining) why Canadians seem to hate Trump.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We can't fix an epidemic that we're unaware of. While we often tell girls to "stay safe" when they head out at night, we never once questioned why we'd have to say that. In BC, a staggering 48% of women have experienced some form of intimate-partner violence since 15 yrs-old.

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Heiky Kwan @heikykwan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Fams, I'm trying to raise awareness in my day job around the pervasiveness & scale of gender-based violence (GBV). We put ads w/ the high rates of sexual assault in Vancouver neighbourhoods, asking folks to help declare GBV an epidemic. 💪🏻 Support & check it out: ywcavan.org/hiddenepidemic

Bus shelter ad highlighting the high rates of sexual assault in the area for YWCA's campaign to declare gender-based violence an epidemic.

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