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Posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 at 6:00 pm.

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“The church has been a safe place for the older generation to talk with others who share those concerns. For someon… https://t.co/FlQckwCBIh 15h ago
Quotes from @TaiwaneseAm_org EIC for @NBCAsianAmerica - "I would urge that this not be used to further anti-Chinese… https://t.co/EZQdFHUOo7 15h ago
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Our agony is rooted in love for our community and

Our agony is rooted in love for our community and history. So grateful to @jocelynschung for steering us through this grief with wisdom, compassion, and tenderness. “The collective heartbreak is personal and political, historical and ongoing. The loss can only be communicated by the way I’ve seen my ama pound her chest with her first and wail in pain. Taiwanese American stories have too often been shrouded by a calculated maze of geopolitical ambiguity and violent conflation of Taiwanese and Chinese identity.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2022/05/17/california-church-shooting-taiwanese-americans/9802586002/

An update on alleged motive — The gunman who ope

An update on alleged motive — The gunman who opened fire at a Laguna Woods church Sunday appeared to be motivated by political hatred directed at the Taiwanese community, Orange County Sheriff’s officials said Monday.
While investigators provided few details, they said their investigation suggestions the deadly attack was a “politically motivated hate crime.”
“Evidence was collected linking him to this crime based on preliminary information in the investigation, it is believed the suspect involved was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan,” Sheriff Don Barnes said. Officials have identified David Wenwei Chou, 68, of Las Vegas as the suspect in Sunday’s shooting at the Geneva Presbyterian Church. This is an evolving story. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-16/laguna-woods-gunman-worked-methodically-but-motive-a-mystery

Taiwanese churches are such a sacred, tender part

Taiwanese churches are such a sacred, tender part of our community and diaspora. We mourn with those who mourn. Our hearts go out to the Taiwanese American victims and congregation of the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, CA where one was killed and five others were wounded, four critically. The gunman is an unidentified Asian man in his 60s not from the area who was subdued by church attendees. This is an evolving story. https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/15/multiple-people-wounded-in-shooting-at-laguna-woods-church/

We appreciate this partnership so much 🫶🏼 • @ilhacandles Did you know that for every sale of our Jasmine Green Tea candle, we donate 10% of net proceeds to @taiwaneseam_org, a non-profit organization that highlights all things Taiwanese American? 🇹🇼🇺🇸
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Starting today, you can now get Jasmine Green Tea in all of our product offerings! We’ve expanded the collection so that you can snag the custom scent in a Travel Tin, Reed Diffuser, and Room + Linen Mist.
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We will continue to donate all Jasmine Green Tea net proceeds to @taiwaneseam_org, whose mission is to connect, inform and promote the people, events and organizations that represent the next generation of the Taiwanese American community! #ilhacandles #taiwaneseamerican

What did @heartsintaiwan co-host Angela Yu discove

What did @heartsintaiwan co-host Angela Yu discover from a year of exploring Taiwanese identity?⁠
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She writes: "In our tenth episode 'What does it mean to be Taiwanese?' we surveyed a variety of people whose families come from Taiwan. We heard inclusive responses ranging from “if you love stinky tofu” to “when you think of Taiwan as your home” that made us feel welcome in the identity, aligned by mindset rather than any sort of biological or legal qualification."⁠
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Learn more about Angela's story and their podcast @heartsintaiwan, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/05/hearts-in-taiwan-taiwanese-identity/⁠
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#taiwaneseamerican #taiwanese #taiwaneseamericanheritageweek #asianamerican

Happy Mother's Day! We are so pleased to share thi

Happy Mother's Day! We are so pleased to share this interview with @margaretgreanias, who also joined us yesterday at @tafestival in a dazzling storytelling lineup of three bay area-based #TaiwaneseAmerican mother-authors writing a better future for all children.⁠
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“Amah Faraway” (illustrated by #TaiwaneseAmerican @tracysubisak) poetically chronicles the emotions of a young San Franciscan girl—inspired by none other than her childhood self—and her nerve-wracking yet fun visit to her parents’ home country of Taiwan. There, for the first time, her Skype-sized grandmother, whom she had only ever known through video calls, becomes a huggable, tangible figure. It’s a change that she has trouble adjusting to at first, but gradually, at her grandmother, her amah’s, gentle beckoning, she comes to embrace what they can share, both faraway and together.⁠
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Read her interview with guest contributor Jessica Cheng, here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/05/amah-faraway-margaret-chiu-greanias/

After 2 years apart, it was such a JOY to reunite

After 2 years apart, it was such a JOY to reunite at @tafestival and show off just a slice of how incredible our community is! Our Storytelling booth debuted our first-ever lineup of talented #TaiwaneseAmerican children’s book authors @margaretgreanias @crystal.z.lee @joannahowrites who wowed and connected with our youngest audience (and their parents!). Our culture exhibit featured new updates, like our story of Peter Tsai’s pivotal contribution to the invention of N95 masks. Our #TaiwaneseAmerican literature canon grows and grows. And we were delighted to host a meet and greet with Rosalie Chiang, a #TaiwaneseAmerican powerhouse best known for being the voice of @pixarturningred Meilin Lee. As @edlinforpresident (another author whose work we regularly exhibit) says — 💥BOOM💥 What a start to Taiwanese American Heritage Week 2022!

BAY AREA GET EXCITED! It’s that time of year aga

Repost from @asiansformentalhealth — Happy pub d

Repost from @asiansformentalhealth — Happy pub day to Jenny Wang’s “Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans”
This book takes Asian Americans on an empowering journey toward reclaiming their mental health. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American together with her insights as a clinician and evidence-based tools, Dr. Jenny T. Wang explores a range of life areas that call for attention, offering readers the permission to question, feel, rage, say no, take up space, choose, play, fail, and grieve. Above all, she offers permission to return closer to home, a place of acceptance, belonging, healing, and freedom. For Asian Americans and Diaspora, this book is a necessary road map for the journey to wholeness. Bookshop linked here and in bio: https://bookshop.org/books/permission-to-come-home-reclaiming-mental-health-as-asian-americans/9781538708002

#TaiwanCanHelp via @bikhimhsiao

#TaiwanCanHelp via @bikhimhsiao

In the transitional week between #NationalPoetryMo

In the transitional week between #NationalPoetryMonth and #APIAHM, we're delighted to share this thoughtful piece of creative micro-fiction by Annie Chen @annie1226.chen⁠
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"Recently, with all that's been going on in the world," she tells us, "I've been thinking about the reason for and value of writing."⁠
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This contemplation led her to Li Bai. ⁠
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Poet Li Bai (of the seminal "床前明月光" poem recited dutifully among Taiwanese and Chinese schoolchildren) was exiled from China and spent his later life as a wandering, bohemian poet. In "What I wish Li Bai Knew," Annie reimagines him crossing from Sichuan into San Francisco.⁠
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"His travel feels like an exile now. He wanders more and writes less in a land he holds no heritage to."⁠
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Read her full piece here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/04/li-bai-creative-fiction/⁠
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#creativefiction #poetry #taiwaneseamerican

We’re excited to join @ambercollective in explor

We’re excited to join @ambercollective in exploring their self-led curriculum of #AsianAmerican history in May. The curriculum was developed by our own @annawuphoto, who self-designed her major at Duke University around documentary studies and Asian American studies and crafted her thesis project on #TaiwaneseAmerican identity. Learn more and form your own study group @ambercollective

#regram • @littlefatboyfrankie FIRST GENERATION

#regram • @littlefatboyfrankie
FIRST GENERATION officially comes out October 25, 2022. My dream has always been to write a cookbook about the food that I love. Dumplings, steamed bao, scallion pancakes but also Big Macs, fried chicken, CORN DOGS (I can't help the midwest in me). Miraculously, both an agent and a publisher took a chance on me, and suddenly my dreams came true. With a book deal in hand and an Asian mom's "you can come home to mom and live with me FOREVER" blessing (I declined lol), I quit my tech job at Airbnb and was ready to begin. Except, as soon as I began, I was like, oh shit. To write a Taiwanese-American cookbook means I have to talk about myself, and more specifically my identity. As an introvert who hates vulnerability and sharing, that prospect was terrifying. I've always felt somewhere in-between. I grew up culturally American but was never white enough to feel like I fit in. Yet within my own culture, I was so Americanized that my Taiwanese roots never completely felt like my own. That resulted in me spending so much of my life trying to fit in, to hide the fact that I was Taiwanese, or that I was gay, or that my parents were immigrants. And so, my oh shit moment was the fact that I can't write a cookbook about being Taiwanese-American without exposing all the parts of me I've spent a lifetime hiding. So with this cookbook, I decided to just say fuck it and not hold myself back. I write about my dad and his scallion pancake recipe, even though I haven't seen him in 7 years. I talk about my grandma with dementia who snacks on roasted peanuts while asking me why I still haven't married an Asian woman every hour. I even wrote a fever dream that I had about time travel and @antoni Porowski that I documented in my Apple notes at 4 in the morning and somehow get to publish. My goal was to write something that celebrated the hidden shame and overwhelming joy that is being a first generation Asian American. To explore through food the adventure that is finding your identity. I hope this book makes you laugh, cry, and simultaneously hungry and full at the same time ❤️

Happy pub day to "AN ARROW TO THE MOON" by the eve

Happy pub day to "AN ARROW TO THE MOON" by the ever-brilliant Emily X.R. Pan @exrpan. ⁠
From Little, Brown Books for Young Readers EIC @alvinaling: "It's a magical Asian American and Taiwanese American story, and I hope you'll savor every word." ⁠
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Synopsis: Romeo and Juliet meets Chinese mythology in this magical novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After.⁠
Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He's sick of being haunted by his family's past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school.⁠
Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents' expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by the strange new boy in her class, the arrival of unearthly fireflies, and an ominous crack spreading across the town of Fairbridge.⁠
As Hunter and Luna navigate their families' enmity and secrets, everything around them begins to fall apart. All they can depend on is their love...but time is running out, and fate will have its way.⁠
An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X.R. Pan's brilliant and ethereal follow-up to The Astonishing Color of After, is a story about family, love, and the magic and mystery of the moon that connects us all.⁠
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Linked here and in bio (aff Bookshop link): https://bookshop.org/a/6825/9780316464055

Posted @withregram • @hochie71 This week, Taiwan

Posted @withregram • @hochie71 This week, TaiwaneseAmerican.org, turns Sweet 16. Wow. @taiwaneseam_org I started reminiscing because I saw (sad) news that Brewed Awakening in Berkeley will soon be closing. I just wanted people to know that the website was born there. During my earliest years in California, I spent many days in that café reading, studying, emailing, and thinking about community. On April 3, 2006, in a moment of inspiration, I started working on a new website to congregate all the news and events that I knew about relevant to the growing 2nd generation Taiwanese American community. To create that website, I used Blogger—one of the first self-publishing blog sites. What people don’t know is that I “tied” six different blog pages—highlighting different regions, a spotlight, and a blog section—with the same html “skin” to give the appearance of a more comprehensive website. In actuality, you were clicking to a different blog with each navigation. I tinkered around with the html to get the look I was hoping for. I was so proud of my header photo bar, which rotated various images and glimpses of activity in the community. On April 12, I sent the first emails introducing TaiwaneseAmerican.org to my various contacts in the community nationwide. I hoped they would welcome this platform and continue to share what events and news they knew about. We’ve come a long way since then, through various iterations of the website, the many volunteer staff I recruited (and am still so grateful for), to culturally-themed products—the most popular being the “Stinky Tofu Walks Alone” T-shirt design (pictured is the original inspiration when @annawuphoto and I did a DIY screen printing project in 2007). Since Nov 2014, we’ve also been a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization helping to fund projects, films, prizes, and pay our writers for their work. Anyways, here’s to history in progress and a HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY to TaiwaneseAmerican.org! I didn’t intend to write this much, but since I made it this far, if you’d like to make a gift donation to support the cause, visit our website!

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Founded in 2006, TaiwaneseAmerican.org is a web portal site highlighting many of the interesting people, events and organizations that make up Taiwanese America. It is both a volunteer-driven website and a non-profit organization that intends to connect and promote those who identify with the Taiwanese identity, heritage, or culture. By establishing our niche within the broader Asian Pacific American and mainstream communities, we hope to collectively contribute to the wonderful and diverse mosaic that America represents.

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