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"it would soon be followed by an interior department report considering any means necessary for driving out the dakota: 'extermination, massacre, banishment, torture, huddling together, killing with small-pox, poison, and kindness.'"
the irony of naming states after peoples you all but eradicated

shivers reading about the indigenous history of the midwest:
"they called him out in the traditional manner, by rasping their knives against the tepee's hides."
the homestead act of 1862 which gave 160 acres of land to anyone over 21 for $1.25 an acre, disregarding the fact that there were already native peoples living there. ironic considering the current state of affairs- perhaps we could send ice back to 1862

can't wait for happy endings to be turned into an episode of love sex and robots

just started reading this and its already shifting the way i think about class and poverty, and the intersectionality with race and immigration. for instance the "volume to anger" ratio clearly diagrams the way people who grew up in poverty (working-class asian aunties) raise their voices even when not angry, which is alarming to middle class asian americans.

why does this read like harry potter fanfiction

What in the Mary Sue

I swear if I come across another book that tries to introduce “the art form called kintsugi” I’m going to scream

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Always in search of stories written by & about immigrants, women, and people of color.