@michellekuo
Author of READING WITH PATRICK, on literacy & prison. Teach law & social change at NCCU. Manage Books from Taiwan on manga & children’s lit. Working on book two. With Albert Wu, a newsletter on #Taiwan: http://ampleroad.substack.com
I just wanted to share this superb article written by Kiah Duggins linking postauthoritarian Taiwan and Black American abolitionist movements: journals.law.harvard.edu/crcl/wp-cont...
H/t to @michellekuo.bsky.social for finding Duggins’ article
Tried to find an English copy of Taiwan Travelogue/臺灣漫遊錄 and failing so far, but did spy some familiar names.
@kevinchen9.bsky.social @michellekuo.bsky.social @lnachman32.bsky.social
Spotted @michellekuo.bsky.social's brilliant book at the Taipei international book exhibition and had to take a photo of it out in the wild. There's so much heart in these pages 😍
@michellekuo.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/heej...
Must read account of the current legislative and constitutional crisis in Taiwan from @michellekuo.bsky.social.
Excoriating and depressing.
Read @michellekuo.bsky.social and @albertmwu.bsky.social on the constitutional and budget crisis in Taiwan
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"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
Highly recommend @michellekuo.bsky.social and @albertmwu.bsky.social 's newsletter A Broad and Ample Road ampleroad.substack.com
Thank you Graham and Kirsten!!! 🙏
Thanks for the shout-out Will!!!! 🥰
Taipei International Book Exhibition will run from Feb. 4 to Feb. 9. This year's theme is 'Follow your fancy in reading', which sounds better in Chinese: 閱讀異世界. @michellekuo.bsky.social and @albertmwu.bsky.social wrote a great account of last year's TIBE.
ampleroad.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
Thank you for the shout-out! Taipei book fair is one of my favorite events of the year 🥰
Here is a complete translation of the Ministry of the Interior's disheartening but completely expected response denying the dual nationality petition. Comments/suggestions welcome.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Hello to everyone and thanks for following back. This account will be for discussion and promotion of relations between Taiwan and the UK, and wider issues regionally & globally regarding Taiwan. We lobby UK members of Parliament and Government to respect Taiwan's existence and global contribution.
A brief write-up about an old rice mill and granary in a small town in rural Miaoli. The farmers' association is generally pretty good about preserving heritage sites (even those without official status), and this one was pleasant to visit on the way to Nanzhuang. spectralcodex.com/shitan-grana...
Curating a left-leaning, Taiwan-centric starter pack to help people from #TaiwanTwitter reconstitute their social graph on Bluesky. I'll add to this as I discover more accounts! go.bsky.app/MuLEaVB
Your post and @kerim.oxus.net were my very first posts to like—haha 🥰🥰🥰 so glad to be joining bluesky at last
