A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:
Minnie Sun is one of the co-founders of Taiwan Mixed, a platform that aggregates English content on Taiwan. She was in Taipei when I spoke with her recently about Taiwan Mixed and her perspectives on how Taiwan or the Taiwanese Can Help when it comes to the stigmatization of COVID-19 which has been attributed to the recent rise in anti-Asian sentiment. How #CanTaiwanHelp #StopAsianHate?
Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:
- Where the idea for Taiwan Mixed came from
- Project Taiwan
- How Taiwan Mixed provides TLDR (too long didn’t read) articles in English about Taiwan
- How Taiwan Mixed got started
- The 228, Decolonization and Transitional Justice event that Taiwan Mixed hosted on Clubhouse in March
- The challenges they’ve experienced with Taiwan Mixed
- How Taiwan Mixed chooses its partners and news sources to feature
- What feedback Taiwan Mixed has gotten so far
- What she hopes to accomplish with Taiwan Mixed
- The future of Taiwan Mixed
- The origin of the hashtag #TaiwanCanHelp
- The CommonWealth article, #TaiwanCanHelp curb anti-Asian sentiment: stop saying “Wuhan pneumonia” written by Minnie Sun
- The #StopAsianHate community forum hosted by Taiwan Mixed
- What the Taiwanese can do to combat anti-Asian sentiment
- The criticisms of and reactions to Minnie’s CommonWeath article
- How to apply to be a partner of Taiwan Mixed
Related Links:
Taiwan Mixed: https://www.taiwanmixed.org/
Taiwan Mixed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taiwanmixed
Taiwan Mixed on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tw.mixed/
Taiwan Mixed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tw_mixed
Project Taiwan: https://www.projecttaiwan.org/
Taiwan Can Help: https://taiwancanhelp.us/
The article, #TaiwanCanHelp curb anti-Asian sentiment: stop saying “Wuhan pneumonia” written by Minnie Sun: https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2962
Video of a DPP Representative, at a forum in Dubai on COVID-19, explicitly using the term “Wuhan Virus” in English: https://twitter.com/tw_mixed/status/1385142073188229122
Taiwan Mixed’s Twitter Conversation Thread about the article, #TaiwanCanHelp curb anti-Asian sentiment: stop saying “Wuhan pneumonia” written by Minnie Sun: https://twitter.com/tw_mixed/status/1385140250922557440
The 228 Incident: https://www.