Tomorrow I get my PhD conferred (cheers) at Columbia University (booing) and now I'm reading beautiful novels again (greater cheering). Please recommend me new beautiful novels!

Currently chasing bad vibes (reading a lot about Hsinchu)

Taipei at night

I really wanna know who in the Taiwanese gov manages their list of b list homophobic far right American political figures to visit the island

Re: maquilas and destruction of the world. From Bowel et al 1995 study that tried to estimate maquila waste and contamination. In 1991, JRZ government made public that US maquilas in the city produced roughly 35,000 tons of toxic waste per year, only 35% returned to US.

This weekend's dissertation bar-writing companion

Hi comrades! I'm a historian of capitalism in the US MX border and in Taiwan, joining the deluge out of Twitter. Follow me for weird archival stuff, random Internet pendejadas and Marxist histories of border capitalism 🌌💖