To Speak in Many Tongues Is to Fight on Many Fronts: Bonnie Jin on Labor, Diaspora, and the Politics of Belonging

Taiwanese American Bonnie Jin is one of the most brilliant voices of our generation, lucidly alchemizing identity into strategy as a multilingual union organizer and storyteller. In a conversation for TaiwaneseAmerican.org, we talk about how diasporic experiences can inform a labor movement rooted in empathy and collective care, and the kind of Taiwanese American stories we want to tell – and for whom.  When asked about her Taiwanese American lineage, Bonnie begins with an ancestral origin…