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​​Christine Phan is a storyteller and community researcher for equitable and anti-carceral technology by and for communities of color. She’s a second-generation Vietnamese American from Tacoma, Washington—and mostly writes about the intersections of those experiences.
 
Phan is currently a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania studying the development of community-owned digital tools. In her other roles, she steered narrative change work to dismantle the power structures reinforcing disinformation in Asian American communities, led the development of case studies in ethics in tech, and managed a city-wide program to close the digital divide in Oakland, California.


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3 Aug 2026

I had a daughter and then I didn’t. I woke in the cradle of midnight, shivering from a supernatural cold. I thought at first that she was crying, that she had woken me, like so many midnights before. But there was silence all around me. I sat up on one arm and peered into her crib. She was gone. In her place was wrapped a sallow, horned little boy. His eyes blinked open. I look at him. He looked at me. Changeling, I thought. Then he started to scream. “Why weren’t the windows
The deads are punctual. They arrive exactly when there is nothing left to distract us.
survival is a fungus
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