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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies. No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

So much of teaching and lesson planning involves clicking on links, shifting course content, and adjusting deadlines. If feels like, at least today, that makes up about 50% of the job. #TeachingLife #LessonPlanning #EducatorStruggles #OnlineTeaching #ProfessorLife #AcademicLife #TeacherThoughts

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Writers, I know many of you were active in that previous bird-chirping space. Maybe it’s just me, but it still feels a bit quiet here. Thoughts? Are you navigating the quiet in a new way, or just waiting for more noise? #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BlueskySocial

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

For both Michelle and me, radio feels like home. Such an honor to be interviewed by her. Her podcast is a beautiful space for memoirists. Give it a listen. #MemoirChat #PodcastRec #WritingVoices #DaringToTell #WritingVoiceshttps://player.captivate.fm/episode/e56d1a13-238d-4079-8c08-ec64665788cf

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Want to play a game? I typed "Gratitude looks like" into my phone and let the autosuggestion take over. Here's what it gave me. Making sense isn't the point obviously, but to me it's like a secret message. Truer than truth. What does yours say? #gratitude #auto-typing

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Family time means I can hang out with this guy 😻

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I did this. No more X for me. BTW, I used Porto to move everything here, in case you need to do the same before deactivating.

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

New to Blursky, but funny thing—I was actually writing about the blue sky, one of the million little drafts I’m not sure if (or how) it belongs in the book. It’s called The Bluest Sky. Writer friends, what do you use Blursky for? Just writerly, or personal too? #writingcommunity #imwriting

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Humbled that my WIP memoir, AN EXTRA, has been named 1st runner-up for the @RedHenPress Women's Prose Prize Award. Comes just a week after my father's passing. Must be my father finding his way to give me strength. #WomensProsePrize, #RedHenPress, #WritingCommunity #AmWriting.

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 10/03/2023

I'm honored and thrilled to be awarded SEED GRANT for my book project NATURALIZED. I look forward to dive into all my public speaking teaching field notes this summer. Now, let me take it all in. @SJSU @seed #seedgrant #memoir #amwriting #grants

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 17/10/2022

"One word at a time—it’s all you have to do. It’s more than enough." #WritingCommunity #writingprocess #amwriting

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 06/10/2022

I'm at this point of waiting to feel hungry again to write, but in reality I'm putting off my book. This helps me. Thx @GuerillaMemoir #structures #WritingCommnunity

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 30/09/2022

I bought a bag of dry roasted peanuts from 99 ranch market today, 南乳flavor. Nothing remarkable. We just cracked one and then another while watching TV. I poured wine too (who cares if they go together). Feels like sharing this piece I wrote last year.

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 16/08/2022

Writers, keep buying books-duh!-but no space anymore. What to get rid of (can’t start) & how? Amazon doesn’t work; I tried. None is buying any fr Ebay (no one needs what I don’t need?) Goodwill? #WritingCommunity #Writers #mariekondo

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 24/06/2022

My husband says if America decides to walk back so far, are they going to overturn inter-racial marriage too?! #roevwadeoverturned

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 22/06/2022

I was interviewed by @KQEDForum yesterday. In case you missed it. The podcast is out. #huffpost #oped, @TheOpEdProject

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 26/05/2022

A piece written by my wonderful colleague @docfreeride "scientists need to take an active role in fighting both violence and white supremacy." Must Not Be Used to Foster White Supremacy via @sciam #publicvoices @TheOpEdProject

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 23/05/2022

Grateful to be accepted as part of the @asianwomenwrite program, and consulted with a wise and knowledgeable mentor & amazing literary agent Sonali Chanchani from @FolioLiterary! What a timely support for my WIP NATURALIZED.

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 21/05/2022

Sharing my journey of English. How many of you feel the same way, that learning English we are "all trying to figure out America?"@TheOpEdProject @HuffPost @noahmichelson #English #ESL

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 24/03/2022

A piece written two months ago, a close to finished draft, set aside. Today I read it and love it. How I love this feeling. Writers will understand. Wish me luck this piece will find a good home. #Writers #writerscommunity #writerslife #Submissions

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 10/03/2022

My colleague @KyoungMiChoi 's recent publication in Psychology Today. I learned about TCK and I think my son is one. "The third culture refers to a culture that is different from the TCKs’ parents’ culture."@TheOpEdProject

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 26/02/2022

Sharing an important piece written by my colleague Yolanda Wiggins. #oped @TheOpEdProject Stop Romanticizing the Educational Experience via @visiblemagazine

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 24/02/2022

I have to be so mature to think preparing for an exam is a way to learn new things. The past few weeks of learning surpassed the past two years, with little exaggerations. #mfa #WritingCommunity #writerslife

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 10/02/2022

A piece I wrote when I was mad at myself getting COVID. @TheOpEdProject @SJSU #covid

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 15/12/2021

"The choice to love is a choice to connect - to find ourselves in the other." #RIPbellhooks #allaboutlove

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 15/12/2021

"Cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart." #RIPbellhooks #Givelovewords

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 03/12/2021

Change "nonnative speaker" to "multilingual". Calling non-anything is invalidating, like a woman called non-man or a minority called non-white. It perpetuates the norms & and does not tell who we really are. #CallMeMultilingual instead! #publicvoices @theopedproject

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 30/11/2021

Honored to be a part of @TheOpEdProject's ongoing effort to make scholarship, learning & future history books more inclusive & intelligent #PublicVoices Excited for the next convening!

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 20/11/2021

Join me at FINDING the WOR(L)DS: Short story readings with Ching Ching Tan. Wed, December 1, 2021, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, SJSU MLK Jr. Library; In-person event and via webinar (pre-registration required). Free! #Reading #literary

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 12/10/2021

A must read. "Imposter syndrome directs our view toward fixing women at work instead of fixing the places where women work." #amreading #WOMANofPOWER #women

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 25/09/2021

Working on three separate projects, all with deadlines (two of them self-imposed and became public humiliation if deadlines not met), and all difficult to close. Ugh!!! What have I gotten myself into? #WritingCommunity #writersblock #deadline #OpEd #Memoir #proposals

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 14/09/2021

It's long overdue but I'm happy I did. Yessss! I am now a proud patron of @DavidNaimon on @patreon, and you should be too: #NewPatron

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 04/09/2021

My student introduces me this book "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse". "Is your glass half empty or half full?" asked the mole. "I think I'm grateful to have a glass," said the boy. #InspirationalQuotes #LifeisBeautiful

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 31/08/2021

Out of many things I learned from @mbsycamore today at @DavidNaimon: "write everything..especially the parts you most worried about (or else) you're censoring your work before it even had a chance to exist on the page." #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 28/08/2021

To be completely honest, Twitter is still a mystery to me. Everytime I come here I feel at sea. Anyone else? #Writers #writerslife #writerscommunity #WritingCommnunity #platforms #query #asianamericanwriter #writersocialmedia

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 27/08/2021

Proud to be a 2021 #PublicVoices fellow with the @TheOpEdProject and @sjsu because I believe my voice matters. I can't wait to share what I write with the world soon!! #amwriting #WritingCommunity

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 09/07/2021

Let me see. What does a humblest bragg look like? I GOT ACCEPTED TO THE PUBLIC VOICES FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM!!! #opedproject #SJSU #publicvoicesfellowship #amwriting #WritingCommunity

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 03/07/2021

Writing my memoir book proposal this summer. What's the best advice you learned when writing yours? #bookproposal #amwriting #amquerying #WritingCommunity #memoir

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 21/06/2021

I wanted to write today but I read and read and read instead. Wish I could peak into my brain to see what has changed. A lot has. #amreading #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writing

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Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social · 06/06/2021

Thanks to @CanyonVoices for publishing Labyrinth (p.76: ) about my earliest period in the US, undefined I could not form questions. Writing about loss is necessary to create sense, to anchor my journey, and possibly, to navigate. #memoir #writercommunity

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