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Bots and babes,  I hope you've been giving yourself some space to breathe, express yourself, and relax because this week was a lot. Check in on your Asian American friends and loved ones if you haven't already. Anti-Asian hate crimes skyrocketed during the pandemic and it's important to acknowledge that grief.  To read more about Asian American resistance art, check out this article by Eda Yu  (and her website!!!). Yu writes editorial content and poetry and has appeared on podcasts and in multimedia content across multiple platforms. She recently worked on 'Don't be a Xenaphobe' with photographer Mashael Al Saie and fashion brand strategist Christine Oh . Check out the shoot on Al Saie's website ...or look no further (TW: anti-Asian hate crime descriptions).  This collection does so much with color and props; blue and white bring our attention to the health care industry (i.e. masks, gloves, cleaning products, even toilet paper). Yu's makeup and costume...

 Dearest bots,  In the weeks since our last encounter, I have been on a lit mag train. I attended a reading last night with a few Missouri presses including The Missouri Review , New Letters , and River Styx .  If you have a chance to attend these Zoom readings, I highly recommend them. An amazing poet friend of mine recently organized a reading via Zoom with a few of their fellow writers and it was a treat. If there were ever a time to support the literary business, now would be it... Another treat: A reading with Camille Dungy and Sigrid Nunez on Feb 24 with the Bryn Mawr College Reading Series (shameless plug, I work for them). These readings are live-streamed but they cost money for non-BMC (or Bi-Co, if you know what that means) folx. To get the link you need to purchase a book from one of the evening's featured writers at the college's bookstore. It costs a pretty penny BUT the books come signed.  Nunez and Dungy were incredible to listen to. Both read from ei...