Status Updates From Green Island

The way that Ryan juxtaposes this pivotal Taiwan-US-China moment atop the MC’s mixed feelings at marrying and moving to the U.S… oh, my hearttt.

i am unwell

This just flies by, I love it.

This is gut-wrenching, but the narrative is a bit jumpy and jarring.

“Under the government’s plan to unify the people with a national language, every syllable of Taiwanese spoken at school brought punishment from the teacher. Taiwanese was for home; Mandarin was for the world.”

F**k me, even my “mother tongue” was a colonizer’s tool.

I feel like throwing up and crying. This is brutal and emotionally devastating. I hate how my family never told me any of this about my homeland’s history.