Jameses Boa

Sharing my GoFundMe for the costs of keeping this Portland-based Meetup group going for another year! I've raised $10 so far and would greatly appreciate whatever else people are willing to spare

When Will Extreme Heat Become Unlivable?

Made with Discord’s/Meta’s media embeds feature, iPhone’s record feature, and iMovie. Enjoy! #mateusasato #guitarcover #instramentalcover #yourestilltheone #shaniatwaincover

The Plastic Soup in our oceans | EarthDay

This piece by my high school prom date gets at why I decided to compartmentalize my childhood dreams of becoming a published writer into Vocal Media (link here: https://vocal.media/authors/james-bao-1)

Saw this on LinkedIn, thought it was pretty cool. It was the second half that was shared in the LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexwang2911_mathematics-animation-datascience-activity-7081622800783867904-gx_S/

I’m glad you brought it back around to the dehumanization of children, because that’s what underlies the entire cultural process of infantilization in the first place, and what gives infantilization its meanings in culture. The oppression of children one of the most overlooked issues in U.S. society. My dad always said you can learn a lot about a culture by how it treats it’s children. And we as kids are forced to learn a certain way, forced to perform to certain expectations, forced to suppress and ignore our natural inclinations and needs, and given no platform for autonomy in the world that controls us. So it’s no wonder many of us seek to comfort our inner child when we are grown. This is why children and teens are so effective as activists, because by the time we grow up the determination is starved out of us, and we are tired and burned out. We need youth liberation for effective progress."

Procrastinated on writing this Vocal Media piece about volunteering for the 2019 School Strike for Climate for over 2 years. Published it on the last day of 2022, am sharing it with the outside world on Earth Day 2023.

This was a really good blog post. Places are so much more than how they voted in the last election.

Unilever- why bring a child into the world? (originally posted in 2014 or 2015)

Being Asian American During Covid. Saw this super-indie documentary on Reddit, thought more people should watch it

New Vocal Media story! (despite the title I promise it has nothing to do with dried fruit) Submitted this to the Remarkably Real Challenge