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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are 2 things I can talk about all day: The Enneagram. And Honey Bees. No one wants to hear about the enneagram. So it’s BEE STORY TIME! christinehlee.substack.com/p/catching-a...

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Catching a bee swarm: Beekeeping, swarming, and new beginnings

Sidequests and subplots

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I hate you. (To be clear that is in jest. But also. Dammit).

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Also. The word “hurt” looks weird now. It feels foreign. Looks foreign. Am i dissociating from the word hurt?

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And how to become the hurt person who doesn’t hurt people.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Nightingales: graphic novel by Amma Wilson

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why are people so mean. Also: hurt people hurt people.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reading a book on the Black Death for novel research. I am SO not used to reading history books. Where is the protagonist? Where is the person I care about??? Every time the book brings up an interesting person…they DIE OF THE PLAGUE. I have 400 more pages to read.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thank goodness I tested negative and got released from Covid Jail before I got completely scammed.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

At the point of boredom on my Covid recovery + Covid Jail Time where I am now willing to correspond with random strangers in my “request” inbox on IG.

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lovely piece >>

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is so lovely. Christine articulates the pleasure I’ve had traveling with my teens the past couple years as they experience places that I have BIG feelings about.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I will continue dreaming of a universal language.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And thank you for doing the research and this answer!

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And here I was fantasizing about a unified world language in the form of sign language. But we did it there, too.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Is there a universal sign language? Or is even sign language broken up by national and cultural borders?

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thank you! It’s such a breakthrough vacation/trip in many ways.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This SNL skit is every one of them eventually too little too late youtu.be/-wQhY5CMMl4?...

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Mom Confession - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/07/2026

I’m sorry but this was posted by Kier Starmer’s actual verified account and I am DECEASED my brother in Christ I just…was his social media person just like grip it and rip it or what

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I squeezed in a bit of writing while traveling through South Korea. On the multiple narratives of a place. What it means to one person is not what it means to another. Aka the Han River. christinehlee.substack.com/p/the-han-ri...

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The Han River in Seoul: A travel essay about memory, family, and place

The idea of the Han River

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is the product that has been helping me. I literally have before and after pictures of my hairline growing back. It looks gnarly for a while bc the baby hairs are wild (I still look like I have very short bangs). a.co/d/09NSAPV7

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Amazon.com: RG3 RGIII PREMIUM HAIR LOSS CLINIC SHAMPOO (ONE BOTTLE) : Beauty & Personal Care

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Im sorry you were sick! :( I have spent the last 13 years regrowing my hair. I have tips. the baby hair bang stage is cray!

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

What we do off the page is also what happens on the page. How everything is writing. christinehlee.substack.com/p/writing-wi...

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Writing without words

What quilting taught me about storytelling

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Alison Kinney @alisonkinney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Next week in San Francisco, a group reading to celebrate the launch of my book UNITED STATES OF REJECTION with @tdorabji.bsky.social @xtinehlee.bsky.social @gracelp.bsky.social & Joyce E. Young! Tuesday, June 30 (7pm) Green Apple @booksonthepark.bsky.social , 1231 9th Ave. RSVP link below!

Green Apple Books presents: Alison Kinney, UNITED STATES OF REJECTION, featuring: Tara Dorabji, Christine H. Lee, Grace Loh Prasad & Joyce E. Young. Tuesday, June 30, 7pm. 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset). RSVP at Greenapplebooks.com

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Out to dinner. The conversation next to us: Yah! YAH. yahyahyah. I mean. Yah. Yahhhh. Yah! I shit you not. This is the transcription.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Me, noting a second Target store location within a mile of another. Him: it’s a Target-rich environment. Badumbum! These are the conversations we have in our car.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Have I been holding my breath? No. I don’t know when or if I’ll ever see money from Anthropic let alone OpenAI or any other company that stole work. Also yah attorney fees. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I teach at Antioch’s low-res(idency) MFA. And am on my way to teach in person at our residency. Which I affectionately term the “high-res” portion. No craft talk this time (last semester was global storytelling structures). This time: generative writing class on time and pacing.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It is an excellent coping mechanism. You get a gold star.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I am all about the vagus nerve resets. More of those. (Except for fainting. Vasovagal response fainting feels horrible).

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

When I was a kid growing up, I saw so many men washing their faces in bathroom sinks following a tough talk or whatever, often at work. I am now deep in middle age. I have never ever seen this happen. In fact, I wish men would wash their faces more often.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hi: a gentle reminder to make sure your panelists are registered with AWP BEFORE you go to submit your proposal. I was about to submit and then it took a few days for everyone to get an AWP account. I subbed my proposal yesterday. The deadline is nigh: putting this out there to help.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is for a potential piece: Trans people, did you have friend(s) or your entire friend group abandon you when you came out and/or transitioned? I’m curious to hear others’ experiences … (Reposts appreciated)

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Dammit. I meant supercut. But I am pleased you have the autocorrect translator.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Right? The gold standard are Harry’s berries gaviota strawberries. But you HAVE to eat them SAME DAY of purchase.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I would watch a shortcut of birds visiting this feeder.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Two overwhelming thoughts in my mind: 1. Why can a grocery store keep strawberries fresh for a while, but when I bring them home I have to eat them same day or else they rot? 2. When will Mother’s Day ever stop feeling shitty for me? A peek into my stupid mind.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How bad are things that I take refuge in horse “bean” videos. (A very gross thing. So gross it blocks out all the other grossness).

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Scrolling through IG and see a video that says whales aren’t singing as much anymore because they are starving. And the next thing I see is a Kardashian at the Met Ball. EVERYTHING IS AWFUL.

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

lmaoooooooo

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Everyone’s passion is going every which way. It’s like a panic-love where we drown our beloveds.

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