Truku students perform at opening ceremony for the new indigenous bamboo house built on campus.

Pangcah students perform at opening ceremony for the new indigenous bamboo house built on campus.

Frankly, if I was your employer, I would consider an allusion to a discredited conspiracy theory to be a fireable offense.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is “like watching a live-action dramatization of a download progress bar, with actors carrying bits of information from one side of the screen to the other” 🤣🤣🤣

The “Dawnland” Documentary Shows How the U.S. Government Took Indigenous Children From Their Homes and Placed Them With White Families

I’m at the eyeglass store (What?) I’m at the coffee shop (What?) I’m at the combination eyeglass store and coffee shop - h/t Das Racist

Israeli academics and artists warn against equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism

I haven’t seen eye to eye with Katha Pollitt about electoral politics for some time, so I was happy to see her focusing on “the nearly 40 percent of eligible voters…who in 2016 did not vote at all.”

Six months before people were sickened by contaminated romaine, Trump’s FDA shelved the water-testing rules that could have prevented this!

More than 3.6 million college graduates are living in poverty—and the rate keeps climbing

Time to break academic publishing’s stranglehold on research

Taylor Swift makes a payout to all Universal artists a clause in her new record deal (This is actually an important story, and worth reading the full thing…)

over half of the top free VPN apps either had Chinese ownership or were actually based in China

China’s ‘sharp power’ play in Taiwan

Of course he cheats at golf!

What Happened to Venezuela Isn’t So Simple

Board Games For Adjunct Professors

Taiwan to see first-ever openly lesbian council members

Taiwan’s political landscape changes overnight

Anti-gay marriage groups win Taiwan referendum battle

Leaving the Fortresses: Between Class Internationalism and Nativist Social Democracy (A long piece, but well worth it!)

The Blinding Whiteness of the Coen Brothers’ Wild West

Special journal issue on Asian indigeneities

New national ID card will recognize trans as a third gender in Taiwan

Taiwan’s LGBT groups fight fake news on Line, Facebook before marriage-equality vote