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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

the great darkening has arrived. read my convo with Sam Bloch about his new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and let us all get shade-pilled 🚫🌴 lareviewofbooks.org/article/its-...

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It’s Only Getting Hotter | Los Angeles Review of Books

Lisa Kwon talks with Sam Bloch about his new book “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.”

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

new substack post on a little songbird, greenwashing the good things out of our lives, the police state pc: Jabz Gallo (a new friend and founding member of Save the Vireo justacity.substack.com/p/migratory-...

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Migratory birds don't know borders the way we obsess over them

...así que todavía estamos dispuestos a seguir hasta la victoria

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yash-o-lantern 🎃 @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

this made me cry. rios i was not familiar with your game

A screenshot of a screenshot; on twitter, @lisaskwon posts a screenshot of something she saw on instagram from @rios.imagines, saying "all week i've been thinking about this caption". The image shows riot cops aiming guns at protesters barricaded behind pink park furniture amidst a cloud of tear gas.

The caption from @rios.imagines reads: "images of the bright pink civic furniture line that we designed for @grandpark_la "the park for everyone" being used by LA protesters stopped us in our tracks. These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect. we stand in solidarity with our city during moments of civic expression in support of unjust treatment, and we are reminded why we design: for our community, diversity, and a sense of belonging."

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

new substack post about @ LA Scanner, who many of us relied on for realtime updates during our January wildfires. this is about "cop watchers" who deputize themselves as lone heroes i enjoyed writing this one. this is the kind of LA stuff ill keep posting justacity.substack.com/p/a-scanner-...

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A Scanner Darkly

On LA Scanner, community surveillance, our January wildfires

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

i made a substack to chip away at what LA is/isn't + share occasional cultural commentary. my first post is about the Hongdae Boys, made viral in April. Leave Hongdae Boys alone/i wish people would worry on understanding their own desires/ur being racist justacity.substack.com/p/to-all-the...

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To All the Hongdae Boys I’ve Loved Before

A straight-coded post on desire plus an intro.

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. I interviewed poet @cathylinhche.bsky.social about her new book of poetry reflecting on her parents’ work as extras on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and American myth-making of the war impulsemagazine.com/symposium/be...

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“Becoming Ghost” with Cathy Linh Che — IMPULSE Magazine

Che’s latest collection of poems looks at the American myth-making that shaped public memory of the Vietnam War.

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Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I’m always interested in work that situates big-time sports in our larger culture. This seems pretty deft.

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

After one of the WILDEST council exchanges in recent memory, with councilmembers accusing each other of making backroom deals (!!!), LA's Olympic wage passes 12-3, guaranteeing LA's tourism workers a minimum wage increase to $30/hour by 2028 My previous story: www.torched.la/the-olympic-...

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...

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Astria Suparak On The Politics Of Sport

Astria Suparak speaks about how sports and the arts are not mutually exclusive sources of inquiry and criticism of our political and cultural spheres.

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

it be two girls at happy hour going “i can’t cry, i intellectualize my grief”

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

when an editor says i came back with strong reporting + writing... im better than you

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

she’s writing about ktown again..a return to form 🤷🏻‍♀️ my essay on sickly housing concept art for cusper magazine open.substack.com/pub/cusperma...

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On Housing Concept Art

By Lisa Kwon

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

i am struggling to find a home for a piece I’d like to write about the psychic damage Koreans have endured ten years after Seth Rogen’s The Interview came out. that film cycle needs a proper critical reappraisal but I don’t think people care to hear how much Obama is at fault for Korean relations!!!

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

i will not gatekeep but you will have to ask me where it’s from

seolleontang (설렁탕) from [REDACTED] in Koreatown

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

in a first, cried while interviewing someone today. if you tenderly show me a picture of your late wife and tell me how much you miss her, bye 😭 Im a writer second, Aries first

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

you may be an LA cultural icon and creative shapeshifter but in the end we are all the same, made of flesh and bones, that a dog just wants to cuddle up on

Logan the golden retriever gets pets from Michéle Lemy

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

im so thrilled that i reached out to hanif abdurraqib to talk (so tenderly!) about his wild sneaker collection because the world needs to know also, chris paul WOULD make a great poet youtu.be/bNyskgDYYRc?...

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Hanif Abdurraqib | Flight Club: Friends & Family

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stop romanticizing palm trees @lisaskwon.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

sorry to my friends mel, carol, jazz for blowing up the spot you used to grow up frequenting, but a legend is a legend read my latest on Pasadena's Top Restaurant (YES, THAT IS THE NAME) for Eater LA la.eater.com/2024/2/23/24...

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