Melissa Chan
@melissakchan.bsky.social
Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
From a frigid but wonderful time in London to a perfectly sunny Miami, I've happily accumulated and hauled around signed copies of these books which I am so excited to bring back home to Berlin.
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
From a frigid but wonderful time in London to a perfectly sunny Miami, I've happily accumulated and hauled around signed copies of these books which I am so excited to bring back home to Berlin.
Watch a clip from our 8-minute lightning talk on art, activism, and journalism at Berlin Freedom Conference, the city’s annual event marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fight fascism! 🔗 Full video here: bit.ly/berlin-revolution
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Watch a clip from our 8-minute lightning talk on art, activism, and journalism at Berlin Freedom Conference, the city’s annual event marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fight fascism! 🔗 Full video here: bit.ly/berlin-revolution
Thank you to @miamibookfair.bsky.social for the invite, the @degrootfoundation.bsky.social for your support and sponsorship, and Charlie Kochman for leading a great conversation! What amazing memories. 💥 GRAB YOUR COPY, GIFT A COPY of our book, YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION: streetnoisebooks.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thank you to @miamibookfair.bsky.social for the invite, the @degrootfoundation.bsky.social for your support and sponsorship, and Charlie Kochman for leading a great conversation! What amazing memories. 💥 GRAB YOUR COPY, GIFT A COPY of our book, YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION: streetnoisebooks.com
🌴 Miami we're here! At the @miamibookfair.bsky.social! Come say hi this Sunday @ 12 pm, Room 8106. Charles Kochman, Editor-in-Chief of Abrams ComicArts will be moderating our talk!
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🌴 Miami we're here! At the @miamibookfair.bsky.social! Come say hi this Sunday @ 12 pm, Room 8106. Charles Kochman, Editor-in-Chief of Abrams ComicArts will be moderating our talk!
Happy publication day to HYBRED, by Jamie Mustard and Francesca Filomena! @badiucao.bsky.social and I were so honored to be asked to read it and blurb it! We love this graphic novel. Congratulations to all!
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Happy publication day to HYBRED, by Jamie Mustard and Francesca Filomena! @badiucao.bsky.social and I were so honored to be asked to read it and blurb it! We love this graphic novel. Congratulations to all!
So great to see our book mentioned in this @publisherswkly.bsky.social article looking at publishers who support marginalized voices! 🔗 READ: bit.ly/pw-indie-revolution
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
So great to see our book mentioned in this @publisherswkly.bsky.social article looking at publishers who support marginalized voices! 🔗 READ: bit.ly/pw-indie-revolution
At the Berlin Freedom Conference marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, @badiucao.bsky.social and I shared thoughts on the intersections of journalism, art, and activism — and how global Gen Z are making their voices heard. Thank you to the City of Berlin! Fight fascism! 📸 By Mo Wuestenhagen / © BFC
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the Berlin Freedom Conference marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, @badiucao.bsky.social and I shared thoughts on the intersections of journalism, art, and activism — and how global Gen Z are making their voices heard. Thank you to the City of Berlin! Fight fascism! 📸 By Mo Wuestenhagen / © BFC
YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION is fiction — but a lot of nerdy research went into it, including drawing on serious war games scenarios, as I explain in this clip from our Literaturhaus Berlin talk! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION is fiction — but a lot of nerdy research went into it, including drawing on serious war games scenarios, as I explain in this clip from our Literaturhaus Berlin talk! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
Thank you to Literaturhaus for hosting our Berlin book talk, moderated so memorably by Jakob Scherer! All part of the city’s official Berlin Freedom Week. Thank you to everyone who came out! What an incredible night! Fight fascism! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Thank you to Literaturhaus for hosting our Berlin book talk, moderated so memorably by Jakob Scherer! All part of the city’s official Berlin Freedom Week. Thank you to everyone who came out! What an incredible night! Fight fascism! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
Tomorrow is a big day for us in Berlin. @badiucao.bsky.social and I speak right after a speech by the former president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen! 😮 And in the evening — we have our first book talk in Berlin. 💛 For good vibes, here's a photo from our event in February in Taipei. What a year it's been.
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Tomorrow is a big day for us in Berlin. @badiucao.bsky.social and I speak right after a speech by the former president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen! 😮 And in the evening — we have our first book talk in Berlin. 💛 For good vibes, here's a photo from our event in February in Taipei. What a year it's been.
Sobering stats from Hong Kong Democracy Council: As of Oct. 31, the number of Hong Kong political prisoners has reached 1,942. 🔗 www.hkdc.us/hong-kong-po...
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Sobering stats from Hong Kong Democracy Council: As of Oct. 31, the number of Hong Kong political prisoners has reached 1,942. 🔗 www.hkdc.us/hong-kong-po...
I love Skylight Books in Los Angeles and this was my book haul last time I was there: Kaveh Akbar's MARTYR! and Nicole Wong's MAHJONG, which is a how-to guide. Go read some books, people! 🌱 Social media can be fun but unplug a bit and touch grass! Read and play mahjong!
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I love Skylight Books in Los Angeles and this was my book haul last time I was there: Kaveh Akbar's MARTYR! and Nicole Wong's MAHJONG, which is a how-to guide. Go read some books, people! 🌱 Social media can be fun but unplug a bit and touch grass! Read and play mahjong!
🇩🇪 Berlin! YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION comes to Germany — the anniversary week of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Come say hi to @badiucao.bsky.social and me at Literaturhaus this coming Monday, 10th November. 🔗 bit.ly/li-be-revolution
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🇩🇪 Berlin! YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION comes to Germany — the anniversary week of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Come say hi to @badiucao.bsky.social and me at Literaturhaus this coming Monday, 10th November. 🔗 bit.ly/li-be-revolution
🌴 In good company at the Miami Book Fair! Florida needs some good trouble. 😉 I'm looking forward to José Zamora leading our conversation — a great free speech and free press advocate. Come say hi 11/23!
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🌴 In good company at the Miami Book Fair! Florida needs some good trouble. 😉 I'm looking forward to José Zamora leading our conversation — a great free speech and free press advocate. Come say hi 11/23!
I love the reflections from readers who run book and comic blogs. This one is from Sean Kleefeld of Kleefeld on Comics — another one I missed but am so glad to find now. 🥹
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I love the reflections from readers who run book and comic blogs. This one is from Sean Kleefeld of Kleefeld on Comics — another one I missed but am so glad to find now. 🥹
The world is incredibly messy right now, and @mcfaulmike.bsky.social's new book is the best read I've come across, helping make sense of where we are in the context of history. In later chapters, he offers a vision for the future. Congratulations on publication day. This is an important book.
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The world is incredibly messy right now, and @mcfaulmike.bsky.social's new book is the best read I've come across, helping make sense of where we are in the context of history. In later chapters, he offers a vision for the future. Congratulations on publication day. This is an important book.
👀 SCOOP: Art crimes detective Arthur Brand tells us he's just recovered a work stolen by the Nazis — and it's in his Amsterdam apartment right behind the mystery door!* Amelie Ebbinghaus of the Art Loss Register (world's largest private database of stolen art with 700K+ items) is clearly intrigued!
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
👀 SCOOP: Art crimes detective Arthur Brand tells us he's just recovered a work stolen by the Nazis — and it's in his Amsterdam apartment right behind the mystery door!* Amelie Ebbinghaus of the Art Loss Register (world's largest private database of stolen art with 700K+ items) is clearly intrigued!
Literally the first book I grabbed when I decided during COVID lockdown to work on a graphic novel. The original idea was a 24-page Kickstarter comic with @badiucao.bsky.social. YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION became a 264-page behemoth. I learned so much from Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS.
October 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Literally the first book I grabbed when I decided during COVID lockdown to work on a graphic novel. The original idea was a 24-page Kickstarter comic with @badiucao.bsky.social. YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION became a 264-page behemoth. I learned so much from Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS.
How cool to see Yellow Peril Books carrying YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION! The bookshop curates Asian American lit. I'm an American from Hong Kong and Taiwan; @badiucao.bsky.social is from Shanghai, now in Australia. Ours is a transnational diasporic Asian project. We couldn't be prouder!
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
How cool to see Yellow Peril Books carrying YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION! The bookshop curates Asian American lit. I'm an American from Hong Kong and Taiwan; @badiucao.bsky.social is from Shanghai, now in Australia. Ours is a transnational diasporic Asian project. We couldn't be prouder!
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says she'll nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Cambodian PM had said the same a few days ago. Trump must be as pleased as a fox in a henhouse but this is pretty embarrassing, Dear Leader stuff. 📸 REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says she'll nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Cambodian PM had said the same a few days ago. Trump must be as pleased as a fox in a henhouse but this is pretty embarrassing, Dear Leader stuff. 📸 REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
REVOLUTION in Taipei! A reminder that copies of the graphic novel are at Bookman Books and also available to order online! ➡️ bit.ly/bookman-revolution
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
REVOLUTION in Taipei! A reminder that copies of the graphic novel are at Bookman Books and also available to order online! ➡️ bit.ly/bookman-revolution
🇨🇿🇺🇦 More Czech media coverage of our book talk and the festival — including on Ukrainian author Sofia Andrukhovych, pictured in the piece. It was an honor to meet her! I'm excited about the forthcoming English translation of her novel AMADOKA which will be out next year from Simon & Schuster.
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🇨🇿🇺🇦 More Czech media coverage of our book talk and the festival — including on Ukrainian author Sofia Andrukhovych, pictured in the piece. It was an honor to meet her! I'm excited about the forthcoming English translation of her novel AMADOKA which will be out next year from Simon & Schuster.
Checked out for the first time the music of Emilie Mayer, a woman and composer from the 19th century. It’s great to see more women put in programming compared to just a few years ago. Performed by Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin at Pierre Boulez Saal.
October 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Checked out for the first time the music of Emilie Mayer, a woman and composer from the 19th century. It’s great to see more women put in programming compared to just a few years ago. Performed by Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin at Pierre Boulez Saal.
My local Berlin library has an art installation in response to the book bans in the US — empty shelves engraved with the first lines of banned books. Plus bookmarks and a table showing books banned from schools / libraries in the US.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My local Berlin library has an art installation in response to the book bans in the US — empty shelves engraved with the first lines of banned books. Plus bookmarks and a table showing books banned from schools / libraries in the US.
🇨🇿🇪🇸 Anyone visiting Prague should definitely stop by the Miquel Barceló exhibition at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. It's incredible. Many journalists know Barceló from his breathtaking ceiling in the Human Rights Council hall at the United Nations in Geneva.
October 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🇨🇿🇪🇸 Anyone visiting Prague should definitely stop by the Miquel Barceló exhibition at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. It's incredible. Many journalists know Barceló from his breathtaking ceiling in the Human Rights Council hall at the United Nations in Geneva.