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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Always a pleasure to be interviewed by Jimmy at Comic News Insider!☺️❤️

Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Past Lives might be my new favorite movie 😭 marriage of immigrant movies and mid 2000s romcom. I have so many thoughts that I have to process after seeing it. Cried a lot in the movie theater

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Just a regular Tuesday tarot draw 😂

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

My book Everything Is Beautiful, And I'm Not Afraid, is featured in School Library Journal for using visual imagery to tell stories about mental health. So excited to see the book starting new conversations in classrooms!

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“That’s How I Feel!” Visual Books Help Teens Grapple with Emotions & Mental Health

Illustrated works show the power of pictures to convey complex feelings—and why building a visual collection can be one of the best things you do for your teens.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

ME: *looking at the Giving Tree* its giving tree

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

When the conjunction of my interests produces comics about Chinese idiom and awkward feline.🐯🍁new pages bc I can't do my regular work while it's so hot

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

This summer I got mouth guards, and for the first time in my life I'm not clenching my teeth while resting face. 😭 it was unexpectedly personal when I went with my mom and the dentist said "it's a sign of stress" something I never put into words that way.

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Colorful breakfast🤤pumpkin, brown rice and farro porridge

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Started a project I had wanted to do for a long time. Translating a piece of Chinese literature I often refer to as an inspiration for writing, on the subject of the Cultural Revolution.

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Me to class: don't stress, just make the pages! Me making the pages: stress stress stress

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Comic slides continues. Adapted @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understanding Comics for my class to teach form vs content

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

First day of class!!! Proud of my hand drawn slides, the only way I want to make them now

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Excited to read!! The Infinity Particle by @wendyxu.bsky.social 🥳

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Teaching a visual storytelling course on comics this semester!! Excited & a dream come true. I started drawing comics 10 years ago.

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

My cute lunch!! Soysauce eggplant, lotus roots, cucumber and fried rice 🥲

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John Lee @johnleedraws.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Alexandra Trese, Babaylan-Mandirigma of Manila, Sixth Child of the Sixth Child

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Chinese dishes 😍 first time making fresh lotus roots myself

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Soundscape of my studio is any Chinese dessert shop at closing time or small town barber shop😂 chill hk tw mando oldies

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Yesterday I went to a Chinese-English multi language exquisite corpse tattoo collective creation workshop in Queens. So happy something like this exists 💙

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Latest work: I wrote about a giant painting in the Met that I visited often, its origin in China, and the complex world of identity translation & art dealing. Incredible illustration by the one and only @johnleedraws.bsky.social !!

joysauce.com

How an Ancient Chinese Painting Helped Me Understand My Place in America

When she couldn't visit her family in China, writer Yao Xiao visited The Met and one specific painting once a week during the pandemic.

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John Lee @johnleedraws.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

For @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social 's piece about the Buddha of Medicine, housed in the Met, ransomed from Guangsheng Temple in Shanxi. Read it!! joysauce.com/how-an-ancient-chinese…

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

The worst thing about jetlag is that the magical ability to wake up at 5am everyday does not last forever

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

which is now .15 more expensive

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Back in NYC and took the subway, I missed the big public hallway energy 🔥

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Back in the u s a aaa 🇺🇸

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Thoughts: coming out as queer doesn't mean automatically "attractive" or matching to the ideal image of the kind of queer person inspired me to come out in the first place, but that's okay

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Extensive security check before coming back to the USA. Must mean I'm headed the right directionnn Got my tarot cards patted down 😂

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

Noticing that it is a unique urge to document things in Asia as an automatic spectacle. Without posting photos of random third-world looking things, real thoughts really don't come that often

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

International travel is so cray; the moment I stepped into the line for the border & custom, I feel that sense of belonging again. Belonging only in the middle zone, the people that move all over the earth. No wonder we reimagine borders in our dreams.

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Out of any other place I've been to (extensive travels in the US, been to most cities) I always felt happy returning to NYC. I think the only thing that tops it is my actual hometown which I just love very deeply.

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Weirdest feeling before returning to an English-speaking country: like going to sleep, waking up in a hyper and anxious New York illustrator's body

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

In NYC I spend $70 on recreating the haircut I grew up with. Back in Tianjin everyone still sports the same cut for $3

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Good morning from small town haircut

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Prism @prismreports.org · 09/08/2023

Last month, the Smithsonian APAC abruptly cancelled the annual Asian American Literature Festival. Trans authors speak out about the festival's politics that underlaid the cancellation. prismreports.org/2023/08/09/trans-a…

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Trans authors speak out after canceled Smithsonian AAPI festival

Organizers suspect this year’s visible trans and nonbinary authors event could be part of why the festival was suddenly pulled

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

Something new learned after this long-anticipated trip to China: if metaphorically packing is the opposite and cause of unpacking, it is an activity simultaneously traumatic, difficult, and complicated

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

What's that feeling of coming back to nyc in 10 days and not knowing what that means 😳

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

I don't think I've ever seen an animated movie about Chinese poets! 长安三万里 Def a deep cut in my movie going experience

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Quote post with some blue art

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Christina Chung 鍾書寧 @christinaillos.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Quote post with some blue art 💙🩵

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Speaking Chinese everyday this summer has put my spoken English back in its "as a second language" state, but somehow writing prose is so freeing

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

me: want to find out who I really am if I didn't immigrate Also me: back home, reading fanfic till 3am, waking up thinking about reading fanfic

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Arielle Jovellanos ✨ NYCC K29 @joviellety.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Only putting it out here on bsky for now, but I'm actively seeking commissioned illustration work for the last half of this year. Interested in covers, author book swag collabs, shirt designs, etc. but not currently open for sequentials. 💖

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

gets on new social media 👀 briefly questions new social media 👀 starts using new social media like old social media 🤦‍♀️

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Yao Xiao @yaoxiaoart.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Current rabbit holes: 🕳 🕳 🕳 -Chinese translation of Edward Said's Orientalism -Social etiquette videos on Xiaohongshu -1300 yr old religious sites -Visual narratives in script form

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