BY ASHLEY DENG-YU CHEN In Taiwan, national and cultural identities are often in conflict. Taiwan is a rare example of a thriving Asian democracy. The re-election in January 2020 of [ … ]
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Taiwan’s lesbian sex toy and divination shop strives to help queer women accept themselves
BY WUJUN KE When Kitty Lee asked me to take off my glasses and stretch out my hands, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Kitty is the manager of Love Boat, [ … ]
Fiction: A brother comes to visit
BY JESSIE TU My brother came to visit on a Saturday night. The weather had been hot all day, lingered around and stayed until late. I’d been living with a [ … ]
Five podcasts on LGBTQ+ culture in Greater China
BY ATHENA LAM The LGBTQ+ community could do with more diversity. LGBTQ+ representation in Greater China, as with the rest of the world, is often stripped down to the image [ … ]
Fiction Excerpt: Searching for Gao Meng
BY DANA LIU The Problematique A week after Professor Bai Hua’s lecture on the female writer Ding Ling, he called me to his office. I’d recently slipped a problematique under [ … ]
A NüVoices gathering in Taipei
BY GRACE JACKSON On June 8, NüVoices held its first gathering in Taipei at Alleycats Pizza in Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei. Over three-cup-chicken pizza, a small group of locally [ … ]