R. O. Kwon 권오경
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize • ‘25-‘26 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow 🌈 she/her
www.ro-kwon.com
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at councilor.green@portlandoregon.gov
- it is astonishing to me that any of these assholes ever says yes to an isaac chotiner interview but my god i am so, so glad they do
- New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- i wrote about a foiled, doomed attempt to set aside time for a writing residency & about what helped regardless rokwon.substack.com/p/i-had-the-...
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경Seriously, if you've ever considered running for office, now's the time. Go check out @runforsomething.net. This is looking like a 25+ point swing in TEXAS -- nearly doubling the average +13 swing we've been seeing. Don't leave any seat unchallenged. Make the GOP spend all their resources.
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
- going to hold on to this & listen to it again the next time my spirits flag, & the next time after that, & after that again, &&&
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."
- "We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...
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- keep calling your senators daily about ice ☎️ each call gets tallied & is useful you can reach them through @5calls.org or 202-224-3121
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경This part. Celebrate every victory, large and small. Celebrate each other. Celebrate the love and solidarity that hold you together. Never stop doing this. It's fundamental.
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
- the scariest person I know is my grandmother, also a woman on a walker. after a stroke, she was told she'd never walk again; she was up on her feet in weeks. she terrifies everyone & takes care of everyone too, & has spite like you wouldn't believe. i'm betting on the side with women on walkers
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it. www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand. just a steady beat.
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- keep calling them. @5calls.org makes it easy to call your senators, they’ll connect you & provide a script (extra helps when you’re too angry to come up with words) apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경Alex Pretti’s dad: “He cared about people deeply & was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests” apnews.com/article/immi...
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경Fundraiser time for the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center warming shelter. I'll donate $1 for everyone who reposts this. And if you quote-post this with the amount you donated, I'll match it. www.miwrc.org/donate
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경For lawyers in Minnesota who want to resist the ICE occupation: forms.gle/YK9mVYTft1Lt... So many folks in our legal community are ready and eager to get involved. But right now, a lot of work is being done in a decentralized way, by groups without bandwidth to organize. Let's coordinate efforts.
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
- was interviewed about power-lifting by @jennitaur.bsky.social for @thebeliever.net <3 always grateful for the release that lifting gives me, this ability to exist as & inside of a body
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why: They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course. The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
- five calls makes it easy to call your reps, it takes mere minutes & they provide a script. you can call about ice’s murder of renee nicole good, a fellow writer & poet. you can call about venezuela apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
- this Friday!! we’re having an info session for The Ministry of Words, our new teaching collective 🌱 if you have any questions for Fatimah Asghar, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, or me, or if you just want to hear more, please contact us at trip.whitfield@gmail.com for the session link
- helloo friends we have an update to our teaching collective, The Ministry of Words: we’ve added a screenwriting class ✨ scholarships are available for writers of color & the new class will be taught by the formidable & Emmy-nominated Fatimah Asghar theministryofwords.com
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- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
- wrote about the usefulness of forcing myself to celebrate things! even & perhaps especially when i don’t feel like it open.substack.com/pub/rokwon/p...
- Reposted by R. O. Kwon 권오경If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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- i said i was rereading the iliad was informed the book is too long
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