新年平安 AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS from New Bloom! We wanted to let you know that Radio New Bloom is going to take a little break for Lunar New Year. We hope that you’ve enjoyed this last season of our podcast and we’re looking forward to share more content, conversations, and recordings that we’ve been working on with you in this next upcoming season. We hope that wherever in the world you are listening... Source ..read more

FOR THE NINETEENTH episode of Radio New Bloom, we feature an interview with Coen Blaauw, a Dutch lawyer and Senior Policy Advisor to the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA), a US non-profit promoting Taiwan’s right to self-determination. He joined FAPA in 1989 and has since become a central figure in the Taiwan independence movement in the United States. He specializes in connecting... Source ..read more

WELCOME TO another episode of Radio New Bloom! Today we’re excited to debut a new program that we’re calling New Bloom Happy Hour, where New Bloom members get together to discuss a topic. Today we’ll be discussing Jay Caspian Kang’s new book, The Loneliest Americans, with a focus on the New York Times’ excerpt of the book and the first chapter of the book. Participants in the discussion are SueAnn... Source ..read more

FOR THE EIGHTEENTH episode of Radio New Bloom, we present the recording from the discussion and Q-and-A that followed our event last month screening New Bloom member SueAnn Shiah’s documentary HuanDao at our space in Wanhua, Taipei, and was conducted in both English and Mandarin. The film follows the story of two young women embarking on a two-week bicycle trip (known as huandao) through the... Source ..read more

FOR THE SEVENTEENTH episode of Radio New Bloom, which is primarily in Mandarin, we present the live recording for our event last month on the five year anniversary of Tsai Ing-wen’s apology to Taiwanese Indigenous. The event asked the question: Five years later, have conditions improved for Indigenous in Taiwan? Has Taiwan become a more pluralistic and inclusive country five years after Tsai’s... Source ..read more

FOR THIS INSTALLMENT of Radio New Bloom, we present a live recording from our talk with Namoh Nofu Pacidal on April 16, 2021, “On Pangcah Feminisms.” This episode is primarily in Mandarin and is the fourth episode of our current season, coming one day after Indigenous Peoples Day in Taiwan and before our talk on Sunday about the five year anniversary of Tsai Ing-wen’s apology to Indigenous on... Source ..read more

FOR THE LATEST installment of Radio New Bloom, Sheng Kao spoke with Chi Ta-wei, a teacher and scholar of queer literature at National Cheng Chi University. We speak with him about his introduction to Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and the recent English translation of his novel, The Membranes. This is the third episode of our current season. Radio New Bloom is a podcast covering... Source ..read more

THE SECOND EPISODE of the new season of our podcast is out! For this installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Sheng Kao spoke with Jiaqi Kang, founding Editor-in-Chief of Sine Theta Magazine, a creative publication by and for the Sino diaspora. We hear Jiaqi’s thoughts on defining the term Sino, the political underpinnings of identity, and the challenges of building community and solidarity. Source ..read more

NEW BLOOM is re-launching our podcast, Radio New Bloom! This marks episode 13 and will be the first episode of the new season. Episode 13 of Radio New Bloom features an interview conducted by Nick Haggerty of the News Lens International with Singaporean political activist Roy Ngerng. Roy has been living in Taiwan for the last few years after being sued by the Singaporean prime minister... Source ..read more

RADIO NEW BLOOM is re-launching and beginning a new season! Check out this trailer of what we have in store for you, featuring SueAnn Shiah! Source ..read more