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Sarena T (田 玮 炜)

@sarendipitous.bsky.social
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Educator, writer, and doctor (the PhD kind). Cinnamon roll with a chunk of salt in the middle.

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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 13h
I've been running around at a conference, but check out the stunning 125th issue of The B'K, which also includes a short piece of nonfiction by yours truly!
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I forgot to share that my short story, "The Girl Who Vanished," was published in a cozy fantasy anthology by @hollowoakpress.bsky.social last Saturday. Check it out along with the other stories + essays on how to live a cozy life! hollowoakpress.com/product/the-... P.S. Isn't that cover gorgeous?
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The Ordinary Magic in Extraordinary Tales
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Hollow Oak Press @hollowoakpress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Congratulations to the amazing authors who made this project possible: JA Logwood, Jenna Riedl, Rudy Clark, David K. Mitchell, Nikki Blakely, Glenn Dungan, Demi Michelle Schwartz, Chris Cornetto, Kiera Conrad, Kevin J.E. Walsh, Joseph Pietris, Maria D'Antonio-Reich, Amelia M. Burton & Sarena Tien 🥳
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Hollow Oak Press @hollowoakpress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We’re still accepting ARC reviewers for our next anthology! If you’d like to join our ARC team, sign up here: forms.gle/SBH9AmSQLeQU...
Image with the cover art for The Ordinary Magic in Extraordinary Tales, and a call for ARC readers. A spiked circle reads “14 cozy fantasy stories” and a breakout box included the text “tropes include: witches, zombie apocalypse (with tea!), ghosts, dragons, chosen-one, and more!”
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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
new innovations in university leadership
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Once upon a time, I submitted a short story to @hollowoakpress.bsky.social's cozy fantasy call, and I'm thrilled to share that it's been accepted for publication! I can't wait to work with the editorial team and read the anthology.
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Today was the last day of my course Liberty, Equality, Fraternity?. I asked my students to reimagine my class and give it a new title, and these are the ideas they came up with. They then voted for their favorite: #6 won with #1 coming in as a close second
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Overheard a student say during class today that "France has done so many horrible things to so many people." My job here is done.
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Last class, students designed a poster about chlordecone poisoning in Guadeloupe and Martininque. The class voted for their favorite, and I let the winning group choose from a bag of Starburst today. Me: "Sorry, there are no more pinks" Student: *gasp* "Devil!" Student: "Sorry, I mean 'professor'"
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Excellent article advocating for Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies: www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...
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CLIPPINGER: Take a Women, Gender & Sexuality Course at U.Va.
Far from a mere ideology, gender studies provides a critical framework for engaging with a variety of real-world issues.
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Bethany~ @picklebee.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We should stop referring to what ICE agents wear as “masks,” as it feeds into stigmatization and actual legislation to ban face-masks, including respirators. ICE agents technically do not wear masks; they wear neck gaiters. However we should refer to them as what they actually are: hoods
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Philly Chapbook Review @phillychapbook.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Editor Aiden Hunt announces Philly Chapbook Review's 2026 Pushcart Prize anthology nominations in this editor's note and provides links to, and a carousel of, the nominated poems. phillychapbookreview.org/december-25-...
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
A USPS mailbox in New York City
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Obsessed with this melon sorbet that came in a cute container I got to keep
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Committed two crimes today by eating this poor octopus bao and these goldfish dumplings
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My mom and I, looking at a menu outside: My mom: “You need to order something” Me, pointing out that there are no English translations: “I cannot” My mom: “Oh no”
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Last night’s dinner view over Peking Duck
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Weeping because you can order $1-3 plates of sushi in Hong Kong that come to you on a little conveyor belt
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Baked madeleines for the first time
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
After an unexpected hiccup, the newest crochet tapestry has finally been added to the office
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Crochet is the only time I will willingly do math
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Anyone who says Humpback Rocks is an easy hike is a liar
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Beyond excited about this adorable ceramic yarn bowl I that I thrifted for $3
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Now available as an eBook!
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Charlottesville sunrise
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
My students wrote some 🔥 final reflections, I am so relieved and excited that they took away what I was hoping they would from my class
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Please note the CWs You stuck your slurs into my skin when you tried to silence me, afraid of my aberration. Read more of "Your Remains are My Religion" by @sarendipitous.bsky.social in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "Your Remains are My Religion" by Sarena Tien. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Check out my novelette! Fun fact: I started writing it because someone once told me that writing can't work as "a piece of art or entertainment as well as an awareness platform."
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I had my students do trivia on nuclear testing in the Pacific, and one group chose the team name Mushroom Clouds 🤣
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Honored to have been nominated for Best of the Net. Read my poem here: phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...
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Four Poems by Sarena Tien
Read four poems by poet Sarena Tien, our sixth biweekly poet of the Winter 2025 issue, along with a few words about the poem "Mother Tongue".
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Delegate Katrina Callsen @katrinacallsen.com · 12/09/2025
Here is the Virginia Department of Health standing order that can used to get a pharmacy based covid vaccine for those 65+ or 18-64 with at least one underlying condition. Your pharmacy should have a copy as well. www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uplo...
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The pharmacist said my name was pretty and wrote it in calligraphy
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Before every class, I play a song by a Francophone singer from the country/region we're studying. Yesterday, I chose Naïka's "Belle, Belle!" and a student said the song was fire and added it to his playlist
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This morning, I found out there's a chestnut tree across the road from me and this is the tastiest accidental discovery
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Last fall, @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social published my poem "A Doctoral Education." This fall, they featured me in .Writers.on.Writing., where I discuss my piece and my writing: www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/writersonwri...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
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How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I had my students rewrite a Mbembe quote as a tweet, and I'm still laughing at what they wrote. Some examples:
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
My favorite part of handwritten reflection journals is seeing all the students' cute misspellings, AI could never
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I was blessed with the best bus ride ever. Her owner said it’s highly unusual for her to take to strangers, but she just lay down under my seat and stayed there the whole time
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Thrilled to have one of my favorite poems republished in All My Relations! Check out the issue and my poem "Your Remains are My Religion"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Like I needed another reason to avoid Home Depot and Lowes.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/08/2025
The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized. www.advocate.com/news/transge...
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Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement
“Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I finally wrote an essay on my experience in my PhD program: panoramajournal.org/issues/issue...
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Had the cutest interaction with a student who was so excited to discover that I’m also Chinese American
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
After many requests, I finally accessed what turned out to be the saddest and smallest library I have ever seen. I was surprised to find that the books were not categorized by author or Dewey number but size. I tried to find a book before my allotted time ended and picked a cooking book; the second time I got a novel. I began flipping through the pages in search of solace, as books have always been my safe haven. To my surprise, I discovered handwritten notes scattered throughout the book, dated and written by various detainees over time. These messages were filled with reminders of hope, strength, and the assurance that this, too, shall pass. Tears welled up in my eyes as I read their heartfelt expressions. It’s incredible how human beings can find ways to uplift each other, transcending time, space, and borders if they want to and if they choose to. I continued to turn the pages, holding on to the hope of finding brighter moments in this terrifying situation—all thanks to the kindness of people I had never met.
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Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Have discovered my favorite line from a book, The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation by Binh Tu Tran
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