Melanie Mah
@lemonyhams
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Novelist (The Sweetest One, @cormorantbooks); winner of 2017 Trillium Book Award; @guelphcwmfa alum; weird, curious, sentimental. Writing a memoir. (she/her)
Toronto
Joined August 2009
Will I ever pass an old erhu-playing busker on the street without giving them money? Let's hope the answer is no.
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NDP, I don't need you to have hope, I need you to be decisive and stand for things. Also email me less than people I'm dating.
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Toronto Police leave homeless encampment in peace after residents say they’re just a 24 hour anti-mask protest
thebeaverton.com
TORONTO - After weeks of clearing unhoused individuals from Toronto parks in the middle of a Pandemic, Toronto Police finally left the residents outside Lamport Stadium alone after they said they...
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Doing research on Pauline Johnson and see Margaret Atwood was hired by the City of Vancouver Opera to write the libretto on the last week of her life. As though she has any insight into "her life, multicultural identity and art" and didn't totally ignore her in her book Survival.
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Our next highlights for #AsianHeritageMonth are two more fiction novels! The Sweetest One, written by Melanie Mah (@lemonyhams) and @ShashiSBhat’s The Family Took Shape. Pick up these excellent reads and stay tuned for more books by Asian authors!
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Won a prize on Thursday. Stopped by a cop on Saturday. This book comes out in the fall.
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Confirmed: In the recent @globeandmail weekend feature of 10 children’s authors and illustrators, not a single one was Black. This kind of erasure in Can kid lit is typical. And it’s a problem. This is not about those who were featured. It’s about the fact that Black faces...
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Just raced a runner home on my bike and barely missed getting my ass whooped, in case you're wondering how my day is going.
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So poignant (and eerie) to be stumbling upon this while on my weekly walk during a year (and change) when so much has been taken away from us: a passage from Jean Little's If I Die Before I Wake, a book set during last century's Spanish Flu epidemic. @BookmarkCanada
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I was sexually assaulted for a whole year by a man who knew I couldn't risk my status by bringing it up to anyone. Immigration status and the safety of migrant women are absolutely linked and the intersection of greatest vulnerability is where violence is often enacted
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The son of a victim in the Atlanta rampage tells Daily Beast about his mom: — She loved dancing & sushi — She taught elementary school in Korea before coming to the US — “She was a single mother of two kids who dedicated her whole life to raising them." https://t.co/IYcLwK0HaX
thedailybeast.com
Police have not ID’ed her, but 23-year-old Randy Park says his mother was killed—and he’s not buying the suspect’s line on why six Asian women are dead.
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don’t just check on your AAPI friends. read up on the Chinese Exclusion Act, US occupation of the Philippines, Japanese internment camps. listen to AAPI women when they talk about the racist, sexualized messages they’ve heard all their lives. we’re all tired and it’s just not new
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I don't have any elegant words for this shit white "progressives" seeing a wave of anti-Asian violence and insisting that unless the perpetrators wear a sandwich board saying I AM DOING THIS FOR RACIST REASONS then we mustn't inflame the discourse with talk of white supremacy
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As we mourn and come to grips with our rage + sadness + fear, remember this. This morning, as the mainstream media says "we don't know the motive", "too early to say it's about race", Black media is clear: this was an act of white supremacy. What side are you on? #Solidarity
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Fuck US media for doubting it’s a hate crime.
this is what i mean. chosun ilbo has already reported that a witness, a worker at gold spa, said the gunman shouted that he would kill all the asians
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Moved by the solidarity expressed by many in the BIPOC community over the Atlanta shootings.
Locking arms with Asian Americans facing this lethal wave of anti-Asian terror. Their struggle is my struggle. Our struggle is against racism and White supremacist domestic terror.
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