The Taiwanese language doesn’t sound like Mandarin Chinese. “[It] originates deep from the belly, creating rumbling sonorous tones that remind me of my dad’s laughter or my mom calling me for dinner, ‘ki jia buan!’” writes Josephine Lee for @TexasObserver. She explains the wave of migration from Taiwan to Houston, Texas, in the 1970s and ‘80s, why it’s difficult to quantify how many Taiwanese people are in America, and how organizations are supporting Taiwan’s independence.

https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-hotbed-taiwanese-nationalism/

#Taiwan #Taiwanese #China #Houston #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The fashion industry is bad for the environment, built upon exploitative labor, and really only designed for a narrow (slim, able-bodied) group of people.
@damemagazine’s Nicole Froio talked to crafters who are documenting their process on social media to show followers how much time and effort goes into making clothes — and therefore what’s being sacrificed if they opt for fast fashion.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/11/26/can-diy-clothes-unravel-fast-fashions-climate-disasters/

#Fashion #Clothing #ClimateCrisis #FastFashion #Lifestyle #EthicalConsumption #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

And finally, we couldn’t help but reshare our @CultureDesk's post of this LitHub article in praise of reading and print. It has everything a person could need — references to Terry Pratchett, Carl Sagan, George Orwell and Sven Birkerts, and some extremely pithy writing of its own. "The ephemerality of the internet is attractive to entropy, for how much of what’s been written over the past few decades has all but vanished, our prodigious output a daily burning of the Library of Alexandria, while stone, papyrus, vellum, and paper can endure for centuries,” writes Ed Simon. “A printed book is a living animal with flesh of paper and ink of blood, so that compared to turning pages, mere scrolling is anemic.”

https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-print-why-reading-remains-essential-in-an-era-of-epistemological-collapse/

#Writing #Literature #Books @bookstodon #TerryPratchett #CarlSagan #GeorgeOrwell #SvenBirkerts #Culture

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Republicans!?