Diamond Yao 🌈

On @SierraClubCan's 🌳THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA🌳 ep66 @graceofyul discuterons avec Michael Wexler + Louis-Philippe Tessier, les deux cofondateurs de Mulo, un nouveau système de location libre-service de vélos-cargos électriques à Montréal podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mul… 🔶

@yilinwriter !!!!!!

wow no one told me about the white guy who sold a million copy of a "translation" of the Dao De Jing but does not even know Chinese wtf...

@lolaannamendez EXACTLY. So we have to take matters into our own hands. I wrote this piece about a group of women who are doing just that joysauce.com/the-oh-collect…

@graceofyul We'd be too empowered if we understood our bodies I guess

How old were you when you learned that ovaries aren't directly attached to the fallopian tubes and that labia minora may appear to "disappear" during menopause? I was 35 and am AFAB. How are we not taught these things about our bodies?

Stoked that my copy of Ruth Lor Malloy’s 1997 book Hijras: Who We Are finally arrived! It’s about the realities of this Indian queer community from their own perspective. Thank you Ruth for sending me this! You were doing anti-oppressive journalism before it was even a thing!

It was so nice today to give a workshop on trauma-informed, decolonial and anti-oppresive journalism to @ricochet_en, @PivotQc and @IndigiNewsMedia. If you are a newsroom interested in such a workshop for your team, email me at diamondyao@outlook.com.

For @joysauce_, I talked to several members of the Asian diaspora sporting community about what the Washington plane crash of Jan. 29th means for Asian American sports. Thank you @ma_jimmy, @LaetitiaVu & Prof Christina Chin for talking to me about this! joysauce.com/how-the-washin…

For @joysauce_, I wrote about what it’s like to be South Asian and have an eating disorder. Thank you Sravya and Kaiden for sharing your stories with me! joysauce.com/what-its-like-…

Today I had the opportunity to meet Jack Seto, editor of The Asianadian, an Asian Canadian magazine that ran in the 1980s - just like Sticky Rice Magazine now! It’s so nice to see that there were people before us who did this work, who can inspire us & who we can learn from.

For @joysauce_, I talked to some members of the Chinese diaspora about their feelings and thoughts regarding the "TikTok refugees" that migrated to Xiaohongshu (aka Rednote) during the TikTok ban. joysauce.com/how-the-chines…

I am so honoured to finally have been able to meet the legendary Ruth Lor Malloy (upper right of the picture, next to her daughter Linda Malloy). Now in her 90s & a respected elder, Ruth was one of the FIRST EVER Asian Canadian journalists to work in Western Canadian media!

Pétition pour demander à la FPJQ de dénoncer les violences contre les journalistes/la liberté de presse commise par Israël à Gaza et ailleurs. La FPJQ a pris la parole quand ça s’est passé en Ukraine, mais pas pour Gaza. Option de signer anonymement. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@yilinwriter Oof I’m sorry. This is very shitty timing.

rejection letters should not be sent to people on the first day of the chinese new year sheesh 🙄

@yilinwriter Ugh. You should not have to fight this hard to get basic respect

writing very firm emails telling people to handle my translations properly is a skill i'm working on 🫠

starting the year of the snake strong by writing a mini-essay in an email telling somebody they need to do better and respect translators of color 🐍

@yilinwriter Ayomaya! You should not have to deal with that

For @joysauce_, I had the chance to discuss with The Oh Collective about empowering Asian women/femmes to own their sexuality & democratizing culturally-informed sexual & reproductive health education. Thank you for speaking to me about this! joysauce.com/the-oh-collect…

If any editors are listening, I am up for writing a piece where I interview Chinese diaspora about their thoughts on this, especially what the migration exposed about racism, politics and propaganda.

I wish all Chinese diaspora who are getting whiplash from seeing white people migrate to Xiaohongshu a very blessed day. Two worlds you never thought would cross paths unexpected did, and here you are, being some of the only folks out there who actually understand BOTH worlds.

Earlier this week, a client reached out to collaborate & I felt impostor syndrome. Then, I recalled a white man with 0 degrees/expertise in the topic who confidently pitched himself as a suitable candidate for an Indigenous affairs editor position - and told myself “I got this”.

Je couvre les voix marginalisées, l’intersectionalité, la diaspora, les communautés asiatiques, les enjeux 2SLGBTQIA+, les arts et la culture, le développement durable et la justice sociale.

Rédacteur.trice.s de mon réseau, je suis disponible pour des assignations sur le Nouvel An Lunaire ET la St-Valentin. Écrivez-moi au diamondyao@outlook.com!