Jean Chen Ho
@jeanho
Followers
11,064
Following
1,948
Media
1,540
Statuses
18,354
Author of FIONA AND JANE 📚🪷📝 not a poet, not yet a novelist (she/her/tā)
Joined February 2009
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Apple
• 651786 Tweets
TLP Finished Shooting
• 597046 Tweets
#ปิ่นภักดิ์ปิดกล้องแล้วจ้า
• 581606 Tweets
seokjin
• 266719 Tweets
LINGORM TSOU WORSHIP
• 243871 Tweets
OpenAI
• 116216 Tweets
#WWERaw
• 95048 Tweets
Nodal
• 81678 Tweets
Cazzu
• 60010 Tweets
水分補給
• 53512 Tweets
Ángela Aguilar
• 49491 Tweets
Oilers
• 38067 Tweets
#ปาฏิหาริย์รักร้อยปี
• 37863 Tweets
Panthers
• 36742 Tweets
HAPPY 3RD BINIVERSARY
• 36631 Tweets
Kevin Hart
• 33930 Tweets
Druski
• 33083 Tweets
Ricochet
• 27909 Tweets
エアコン
• 27793 Tweets
Edmonton
• 23861 Tweets
Marisol
• 15536 Tweets
Victoria Monet
• 12235 Tweets
Enchanting
• 10581 Tweets
モンスト
• 10364 Tweets
Demanding that your Zoom students wear shoes inside their own house is racist
2K
10K
136K
@derek1022
Wearing/not-wearing shoes, or the idea of inside/outside clothes in general is a culturally based practice, onto which race as a social construct is mapped
89
243
12K
You guys we’re gonna have a First Lady who was an English major in college. Literature nerds, this is our time
65
995
8K
Hello Asians on the internet, the iconic man who called into the LA Police Commission last week and shouted “I yield my time FUCK YOU” is Asian😭 his name is Jeremy Frisch
43
2K
7K
A specific restaurant sound I’ve been missing is when you go to a Korean place and the waitress sets down like 40 little banchan dishes one by one from her tray on to the table clack clack clack clack clack clack clack😭
28
464
6K
Not being on twitter is a form of privilege, and it's one we don't talk about nearly enough.
20
478
5K
Toni Morrison on editing: “I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did. I try to make it look like I never touched it, and that takes a lot of time and a lot of sweat.”
10
632
5K
Having my photo taken for a story and they asked me to come up with a location that’s meaningful to me so I suggested doing it in the Costco parking lot with me eating a Costco hotdog, and they wrote back No
76
145
5K
Today I learned the Bing cherry is named after a Chinese farmer who cultivated the variety in the 1800s, his surname was 邴 and he was known as Ah Bing
28
591
5K
one taught me love
one taught me patience
and one taught me pain
41
1K
4K
Culturally speaking does this pandemic mean we're looking out at twenty more years of literature by Asian Americans trying to convince white people of our humanity or can I go on writing about dicks etc
31
243
3K
Would it be weird to send my therapist a copy of my book, is it like when your cat leaves a dead bird for you at the door
59
68
3K
Since California (LA specifically) has defeated the state of Florida in the World Series AND the NBA finals this year I think it’s only fair we get their electoral votes next week
24
255
2K
Pusha T is an example why people should not ever mess with earth signs. Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn? These are the people with long memory, work ethic, hold grudges like a motherfucker. They will WIN
37
680
2K
Psychic adults are just children who grew up having to read the room for survival. These days when I hear my friends explaining things very clearly to their children I think—ah good this baby won't have to grow up & become a clairvoyant compulsively trying to figure some shit out
21
165
2K
Instead of “kill your darlings” (a violent metaphor which I can’t help but feel is tinged by misogyny) how about “take care of your plants” which suggests care for a living thing which naturally sometimes has parts that die off but its beautiful roots remain, and grow
34
353
2K
June Jordan: “Poetry means taking control of the language of your life.”
6
442
2K
There is a corner of the room, in grief, that’s not unlike the sensation of falling in love. Everything feels brand new and unrecognizable and yet how could one not have seen things this way before. An almost sublime feeling, a place untouched by language
19
221
2K
PhD hooding ceremony today!😊❤️ wearing jade necklaces from my late grandmother & my mom
104
51
2K
Started reading The Hidden Lives of Trees last night (a book I bought in 2018, if that says anything about my TBR pile😓) and cried when I found out trees in a forest still send nutrients to a stump to keep it alive, possibly because the stump is their parent tree🥺
23
153
2K
Usually on here making my little jokes about books or hot guys or academia or the unreality of life in LA. Last week I lost one of my best friends to suicide. My heart is shredded. It’s very hard to see anything. She had depression, anxiety. That 4AM feeling Baldwin writes about
40
17
1K
This incredible young athlete found out from a REPORTER that her mother had passed away and says she went into a state of “emotional panic.” She used marijuana to cope with her pain. And now she has to talk about it on national TV. I want to burn down the olympics for this
Sha’Carri Richardson (
@itskerrii
) joins us live for an exclusive interview to discuss the positive marijuana test that’s put her Olympic future in limbo.
2K
6K
30K
15
242
1K
You know how in old school computer solitaire when you win, the cards cascade across the screen… there should be a thing like that for your 59 tabs after you finally finish a thing
10
126
1K
Very behind as usual but I watched Shang-Chi last night and Tony Leung is so hot in it! Want him to be my dad and my daddy, he can throw those rings at me any time he pleases
18
36
1K
Pleased to announce I’ve accepted the position of hot spinster intellectual at Earth
14
67
1K
IG removed a post of me with a shadow of… my hand🥲😭 life is rough
19
66
1K
I wrote about the subjunctive mode, defined by Saidiya Hartman as a “grammatical mood that expresses doubts, wishes and possibilities.” It’s also about an abortion I had more than a decade ago, and the ex who texts me about it every September⏳⌛️📲
47
119
954
I defended my dissertation this morning and only almost cried once🥹🤓🥰 thank you to my committee (Dana Johnson, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Adrian De Leon)!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ life is amazing
51
13
906
Really can’t see underwire bras making it past this quarantine? Soft cups and sports bras, ok. Maybe underwires will only exist for special occasion costumes. Let them become the period relics they should have become a long time ago, like hoop skirts and corsets
31
105
893
Forget kidneys, does the NYT want to know which of the penises in my forthcoming book are inspired by actual persons because I
5
30
852
Have you ever answered “because I’m smarter than you” when a man asks you, “how do you know?” Feels so great to tell the truth, I really recommend it
6
52
816
Ten years ago: Who needs a man I’m getting my MFA bye
Five years ago: Maybe I can meet a rich man to support me while I write my book and do my PhD haha
Now: How do I become a rich man
6
22
820
As a pen neurotic I need to expose that not all Muji .38s are created equal!!! See evidence: .38 I got in Taiwan Muji (left) vs American Muji (right). There is a 1 millimeter difference in barrel circumference and the Taiwanese tip & cap are more elegant...
20
21
812
A public art project in which all the remaining pay phones in America connect you to recordings of poets reading poems😌📞
16
127
793
He practiced 100 times before he got on the call. Only the FUCK YOU was extemporaneous👑👑👑 *chefs kiss*
11
74
789
Omg just received the cutest book club visit invitation: “We are a group of Chinese and Korean ajummas interested in supporting female Asian American writers”😭🥰 and they want me to come have an “Asian feast” with them lol
22
18
741
Some days you get the “Thank you for your application” subject line email and other days you get the “Congratulations!” email📧📥
✨✨✨I got a fellowship to conduct archival research on 19th century Los Angeles & the city’s first Chinatown at the
@TheHuntington
heyyyyyy🧐🤓🤗
48
2
739
The contractor that oversees ICE detention centers is JA!?! “Nakamoto is a private firm...Its Japanese-American owner, Jennifer Nakamoto, frequently credits her family's experience in World War II internment camps with shaping her company's mission.”
36
500
681
My diss defense was on zoom so I wore silver pants and fuzzy slippers outside of frame🤗
27
7
700
What’s more embarrassing: wearing workout clothes out with the intention of going to the gym but you don’t end up going, or carrying your stupid laptop around all day with the intention of writing for an hour somewhere somehow & then you just end up with shoulder pain
20
38
688
Feeling chaotic, should I check in with all my ex lovers from the last twenty years in one giant group text and see who replies
20
33
668
Um well I’m awake at 3:45am bc editing a piece I have to submit in the morning (and obviously I procrastinated, drank a coffee at 11pm, etc.) and just now I accidentally found the NYT review of FIONA AND JANE that published at 2am pacific😭😭😭
19
49
661
@TazzyStar
I saw a list someone posted? It had a bunch of rules about what’s proper Zoom appearance/etiquette
23
3
617
Applying all the time for more grants/fellowships/residencies so I can avoid getting a full time job so that I can write novel while also occasionally doing freelance writing etc. etc. feels like a pyramid scheme I am orchestrating and am also on the bottom rungs of
15
24
650
What if there was a “fourth-person” POV of storytelling and we just haven’t discovered it yet because we’re still stuck in this dimension. What if language was our way out
30
45
651
Pretty sure buying these gold sequin trousers a couple weeks ago in anticipation of fun book events in January ensured the Omicron spread. It’s fine I’ll just wear them at home, eating my pho delivery like last year this time
31
2
594
There should be a dating app for nerds that requires pictures of your home library. Do you know how many men’s apartments I’ve been where it’s just scripts and DVDs and lol vinyl
17
46
580
I'm saying, an LA love language is when your friend gives you very specific instructions on how/where to park (e.g. the restaurant is on X street but parking is around the corner enter on Y alley and look for the fourth light pole, do NOT park by the dumpster you will be towed)
7
88
569
I did not read all the books I brought with me to residency and I’m telling myself some books you bring to read & others you need in close proximity for emotional support
10
22
568
These days I don’t even put the vibrator away in the drawer anymore. It’s just out, next to the pile of books & the little clock on the nightstand
8
8
566
So there is “you hate to see it” and “you love to see it” but what about “you see it and feel nothing (maybe you are depressed)”
3
69
559
My lunch yesterday and my lunch today. I am emerging from this pandemic as Gaston
9
6
556
Did you know they have covid tests in France sponsored by Chanel?? Tres chic right?
5
9
543
I wrote about the spectacle of mediocrity that is Bling Empire, and why we should all just enjoy hot Kevin without anxiety👀
27
68
526
Sometimes I reach for a word in Chinese & come up empty, so I have to think of a different way of saying it. Don’t know “vegetarian” so I say “doesn’t eat meat.” Don’t know “fiction” so I say “untrue, made-up.” It’s a very lonely feeling, iterations of translating yourself
15
43
526
Hello, I passed my oral qualifying exam today and I’m officially an ABD candidate for the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature. With my chair, brilliant Dana Johnson💗✨🤓
32
4
505
Mary Gaitskill said it’s ok to write only one paragraph a day sometimes
5
49
508
Thinking about the time I told my mom I was dating a smart guy for once and she said, what does smart get you? And thus began my himbo journey
7
16
510
Can’t believe I get to be friends with writers. Can’t believe I get to hang out with poets. Let me remember this wonder, recognize this feeling as a kind of falling in love, all the time, no matter what happens
6
78
469
Should I invite all my friends who had destination weddings to my destination book launch
7
6
449
Extremely sad for me that I failed to secure a boyfriend in this short lived, supposed “hot vaxx summer” to quarantine with in phase 17 of the pandemic!!!!!!! *crawls back into living room fort of empty La Croix cans*
9
16
421
You mean to tell me I have to keep going down to the laundry machines to wash, then dry, my clothes every week of my life and then hang them up in my closet or fold them and put them neatly in my dresser drawers over and over again until I die
14
73
410
Mr. Bing, the creator of the Bing cherry, disappeared from any official records…a descent of Lewelling who gave an oral history of the farm in the early 1900s believes he left the US to visit family in China and wasn’t allowed to return after Exclusion
2
47
408
My story “Doppelgängers” is up at dream publication
@GuernicaMag
today. It’s about sex, a scam artist ex-boyfriend, a mother asking for money, partying, debt, loneliness🖤
26
58
412
My Lyft driver in Vegas is telling stories about his passengers & just started a sentence with “Not to be racist but—“ & I said “I’m gonna stop you right there” & now there is a very awkward silence in the car I AM LOVING THIS
4
11
380
Michelle Kwan elegance to cleanse the tl🥺
6
32
375
I know there is so much going on in the world besides my grief. Thank you for receiving my sad energy here. If your mental health is suffering and you feel like you no longer want to exist please call a hotline or reach out to a friend. Take a small step. It makes a difference.
9
1
373
He worked in an orchard in Oregon and the Bing cherry was created on the Lewelling nursery (a Quaker family that owned the homestead property via the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, which dispossessed Native Americans of land in Oregon)
1
28
363
I do not know how i will do it but I WILL finish this PhD in literature and creative writing and get to wear that crazy wizard robe outfit and floppy hat they give you
15
3
363
As of this moment in time I’ve decided to start capitalizing the Moon because she deserves our respect
5
45
358
Everyone should read Minor Feelings by
@cathyparkhong
. It's a triumph. Five stars. Very funny. Really smart. A knife to the neck. Should be developed into a prestige television series. Win awards. All of it. Bet on poets, always. Whew.
7
37
353
Is there room in the essay market for me to write about how as an Asian woman who has never dated a white man, my dating past has still been consistently haunted by the specter of whiteness as erotic threat or is that too derivative to the genre of "dating white people as a POC"
22
10
351
I hope I can try again one day to write about her and everything that had been so complicated between us growing up in Cerritos California in the 90s🤍
5
4
341
Yes, tweeting my stupid jokes here is, on balance, wonderful and rewarding. I wouldn't give it up for the world. But also, procrastinating writers bear huge costs, and the ongoing survival of civilization as we know it literally depends on them continuing to do that grueling job.
1
1
332
I don’t know who needs to hear this but if you need a little more time🕰 before “end of the year” / “end of the decade” to do anything & everything...just say you live on lunar calendar time. The Moon says New Years isn’t until Jan 25😘🌚🌝❤️
4
41
338
TODAY IS THE DAY FIONA AND JANE AND OLGA GO TO THE SCHOOL FOR BROWN GIRLS AND MOTHERS DIE DREAMING LETS GOOOOOO
@XochitltheG
@jessaminechan
@DaphnePalasiA
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
23
44
336
Just heard this report on the drive home. You can’t make this up. The owner’s mother was born in an interment camp in WWII🤯
12
69
299
@Kristen_Arnett
Is it possible she was coming on to you, as in “don’t look at my husband please look at ME”
1
0
326
What I wish white administrators would take to heart: you can’t just manufacture an optical diversity (via scholarships for LGBTQ/POC/disabled/trans participants; via hiring new teachers from “diverse” backgrounds). It’s about divesting from your old institutional model/culture
4
82
320
in Nothing Personal. “The entire universe having shrunk to the prison of the self—death glows like the only light on a high, dark, mountain road, where one has, forever and forever! lost one’s way. And many of us perish then.”
3
6
324
I love you, form rejections. I love you, nearly-there waitlisted, then never-calls. I love you, solicitations from editors I admire but who have no money to pay me. I love you for the process. I love you for the stings I still feel. To know that I am alive and trying.
6
34
315
Sometimes you apply for a thing & get it the first time. Sometimes you get waitlisted and then get in the second time. Sometimes you’re a finalist and the second time you’re flat out rejected. Sometimes you get the form rejection 5 times in a row. Sometimes you get solicited
3
38
317
It did not escape me that the two women anchovy lady attacked for selling out are both Asian
6
18
315
When you lose a beloved & find comfort elsewhere, we call it a “rebound.” But what about when you lose a best friend? There is no similar term bc our society, our very language, is invariably tilted toward romantic love. Why are we like this? I want to invent a new world
8
26
313
Trying my best to grow more powerful and more tender in life. In other words I’m trying to become a very good poem
4
78
305
Mid-Autumn Festival, aka Chinese Moon Holiday celebrating harvest & lady who got drunk on immortal elixir & floated into the moon to hang out with magic rabbit we stan forever🥂👸🏻🐇🌝
2
72
296
Sometimes I hear about people's dads buying them a house and then I think...all my father ever gave me were these cheekbones
7
16
297
Rewatching The Joy Luck Club and 1) still struck by how every single woman in this movie is extremely charismatic and beautiful 2) the moms’ stories are way more interesting than the daughters’? Why is each daughter is dating some San Francisco bozo
6
11
301
These days I’m practicing the power of saying “I’m uncomfortable.” And that’s it. Holding space to say: stop, something’s not right. Uncoupling that feeling from the instinct to 1) fix, immediately 2) apologize 3) ignore
4
45
291
“Cultural identity...is a matter of ‘becoming’ as well as of ‘being.’ It is not something which already exists...identities are the names we give to the different ways we are positioned by, and position ourselves within, the narratives of the past.” (Stuart Hall)
4
59
285
Also thinking about the time I had three boyfriends and suddenly mice came to my apartment building when the weather turned cold, and how each or them reacted very differently lol (if I write this essay can I title it Of Men and Men or is that corny)
21
4
287