Talking Taiwan

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:

We thought it would be a good time to re-share this past episode about the Ghost Month in Taiwan. It's November first, the day after Halloween, October 31st which is actually short for all Saints' Eve, and November first is All Saints' Day, a Christian feast dedicated to celebrating departed saints. When you really get into it there are many festivals around the world that center around celebrating or commemorating dead spirits, souls, and ghosts.

In Taiwan the Ghost Month happens during the seventh month of the Lunar calendar, which was not that long ago. Actually, this year it was in August. This week's episode features an interview that I did in 2014 with author Ed Lin about his novel, Ghost Month.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• What the Ghost Month is and how it relates to Ed's book by the same title
• The superstitions related to the Ghost Month
• Ed's novel the Ghost Month
• The research that Ed did for his novel
• Ed's source in organized crime
• Ed's interest in the murder mystery genre
• How Ed has been inspired by mystery book author Chester Himes
• Ed's character Robert Chow, a Chinese American detective who is featured in a number of his mystery novels
• Ed's writing process
• How Ed immersed himself in the time period when he was writing about Chinatown in 1976
• Why Ed chose to write about Chinatown in 1976
• Ed's advice for aspiring authors
• Ed's book tour for Ghost Month

Related Links:

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https://talkingtaiwan.com/ed-lin-ghost-month-in-taiwan-ep-155/

My guest on this episode of Talking Taiwan is Ming Chiang, the president of Hello Taiwan. We talked about how Hello Taiwan got started, its charitable contributions and events, its connection to the annual Passport to Taiwan event in New York, what its mission is, how it creates greater recognition of Taiwan, and the unexpected PR generated for Hello Taiwan when Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan's Representative to the United States was seen wearing a Hello Taiwan mask at the airport.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• Ming's background and connection to Taiwan
• What Ming was doing before he became the president of Hello Taiwan
• How Ming was previously the president of the Taiwan New York Taiwan Chamber of Commerce
• Ming's business ventures
• The Taiwanese American organizations that Ming has worked with
• When Hello Taiwan was established and its mission
• Hello Taiwan concerts and its connection to Passport to Taiwan
• The Hello Taiwan logo
• Events organized by Hello Taiwan
• Hello Taiwan's partnership with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
• Hello Taiwan Day with the LA Dodgers
• How Hello Taiwan donated new dragon boats to the Rhode Island Taiwan Heritage Day for the dragon boat races
• Sponsorship of Taiwanese Waves
• Taiwan Mets Day
• Hello Taiwan events and ambassadors around the world
• How someone can become a Hello Taiwan ambassador
• The celebrities and influential people that Ming has met
• Hello Taiwan merchandise
• The unexpected PR generated for Hello Taiwan when Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan's Representative to the United States was seen wearing a Hello Taiwan mask at the airport
• The confusion caused by the Republic of China (ROC) and labels such as the Chinese Professional Baseball League, Chinese Taipei in the Olympics, Taipei Economic Cultural Representative Office

Related Links:

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A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:

This week's episode of Talking Taiwan continues with the second half of my conversation with Hsinyi Lin, the Executive Director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty. We continued our conversation by talking about what the public opinion in Taiwan on the death penalty is, the types of surveys that are typically done to gauge public opinion, and the survey of public opinion about the death penalty that TAEDP and the Academia Sinica worked on in 2013-2014.

Other topics discussed included a deeper discussion of the alliance's work which includes educating the public and improving understanding about the death penalty, the two covenants adopted as domestic law in Taiwan, that reflect an intent to gradually abolish the death penalty in Taiwan, and the government of Taiwan's general handling of the death penalty.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• How surveys on the public opinion about the death penalty in Taiwan are done
• The 2013-2014 survey of public opinion about the death penalty that Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) worked on with the Academia Sinica
• What has changed with TAEDP since it was established in 2003
• How TAEDP works to educate society about abolishing the death penalty
• The origins of the death penalty in Taiwan
• Whether or not death penalty effectively deters crime
• Why the death penalty was not abolished after the by DPP President Chen Shui-bian's announcement that it would be abolished in 3 years
• The policy that was introduced in writing in 2005, by the government of Taiwan that the death penalty would gradually be abolished
• The de facto 2006 moratorium that was put in place until 2009
• The execution in 2010 was carried out under President Ma Ying-jeou
• What is the ICCPR, and ICESCR
• The implementation law on the Two Covenants (ICCPR & ICESCR) that was passed in Taiwan in 2019, making the Two Covenants domestic law in Taiwan
• How article 6 of the ICCPR states that there should not be any delay to prevent the abolition of capital punishment
• How executions are done in Taiwan and the problems with the execution process
• How TAEDP is trying to change the execution process in Taiwan
• How to deal with the opinions, rights and wishes of victims' families
• How TAEDP interacts with victims' families
• How TAEDP works to educate or create awareness about the death penalty by organizing film festivals
• What is the public opinion and surveys in Taiwan on the death penalty
• The results of a 2013-2014 survey on death penalty conducted by the Academia Sinica
• How TAEDP works with schools to educate students about the death penalty
• TAEDP's book for children that teaches them about punishment and the judicial system
• The most recent executions that happened in 2018 and 2020
• Why there is no moratorium currently in place
• Whether or not citizens in Taiwan take the death penalty issue into consideration when voting
• TAEDP's work with international organizations and how this impact's Taiwan
• What TAEDP has learned from working with international organizations
• How to handle cases like Lee Ming-Che, who was incarcerated in China
• Here's the corrected text "Lee Ming-Che" was accidentally repeated twice
• Hsinyi's involvement with the Free Tibet movement and how she had a chance to ask the Dali Lama for his thoughts on the death penalty
• President Tsai Ing-wen's stance on and handling of the death penalty issue
• The case of Chiou Ho-shun (邱和順) and the TAEDP's request of President Tsai to grant him amnesty
• How supportive has the government been of TAEDP's work
• What's been accomplished in the nearly 20 years of TAEDP's existence
• TAEDP's members and supporters
• How people can learn more and work with TAEDP

Related Links:

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My guest on this episode of Talking Taiwan is Hsinyi Lin, the Executive Director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty. She spoke with me about the movement to abolish the death penalty in Taiwan.

2000 was an exciting year for Taiwan, it was the first time that there was a transition in power from the Kuomintang, and the first time that a Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate, Chen Shui-bian was elected. That same year President Chen Shui-bian announced that the death penalty would be gradually be abolished. However, in September of 2000 there was an execution.

This is part one of a two-part interview. In next week's episode, I will get in to a deeper discussion with Hsinyi about the public opinion on the death penalty in Taiwan, why the death penalty has not yet been abolished and the problems with the current death penalty procedure in Taiwan.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• How Hsinyi got involved in the movement to abolish the death penalty in Taiwan
• The announcement in 2000 by President Chen Shui-bian (the first Democratic Progressive Party president of Taiwan) that the death penalty would be abolished
• How Lu Cheng (盧正) a case that was believed to be innocent was executed in September of 2000 after the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty asked Control Yuan was to review the case
• This first case proved innocent by the judicial system in Taiwan was the Hsichih Trio (蘇案)
• Exonerated cases in Taiwan with the year the case started and the year the case was exonerated: Hsichih Trio (蘇案): Su Chieh-ho (蘇建和), Liu Bing-lang (劉秉郎), Chuang Lin-hsun (莊林勳, 1991-2012)

Hsu Tzu-chiang (徐自強, 1995-2016), Cheng Hsing-tse (鄭性澤, 2002-2017), Hsieh Chih-hung (謝志宏, 2000,-2020)

• Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty's (TAEDP) work on cases believed to be innocent
• How Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty was formed on December 9, 2003
• The urgency of the case of Tzu Hsu-chiang (徐自強) who was exonerated in 2016
• How Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty advocates and deals with all death row inmate cases
• The NGOs that Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty works with

Related Links:

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https://talkingtaiwan.com/hsinyi-lin-fights-to-abolish-the-death-penalty-in-taiwan-part-1-ep-152/

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:

I recently interviewed Christina Hu, the Director of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign about the Pew Research report on Asian communities which misrepresented the Taiwanese. For months Christina and the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign team worked with Pew Research to get an official response issued. After several months of communications, Pew reissued the report in question on September 8 with the categories of "Chinese, with Taiwanese," "Taiwanese," and "Chinese, except Taiwanese." When I spoke with Christina in episode 148, she briefly mentioned her documentary filmmaking, so I thought now would be a good time to share an interview that I did with her back in 2018.

In 2018, I spoke with Christina about her documentary filmmaking. Her films have focused on presenting history through personal perspectives. She talked about her first film and her love of history. Christina's films about Taiwan have covered topics like the blacklist and the historic ruling by Taiwan's High Court that has paved the way for the legalization of same sex marriage.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in the podcast:

• How she got started making documentary films
• Where the term "blacklist" came from
• The Blacklist Workshop (aka Blacklist Studio)
• Her Blacklist Film Series
• What is the blacklist?
• Her first documentary film, Her Journey
• The gap year (in 1999) she spent in Germany in between high school and college
• When she was in third grade in Taiwan and was disciplined at school for saying that her family was from the province of Taiwan instead of Fujian
• How she observed the Tiananmen Square massacre in Taiwan
• The films that she has made about Taiwan
• How her interest in the history of Taiwan has motivated her filmmaking
• The challenge of telling the story of Taiwan through film
• Her documentary film about Taiwanese Canadian Columbus Leo

Related Links:

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https://talkingtaiwan.com/christina-hu-talks-about-documentary-filmmaking-and-her-blacklist-short-film-series-ep-151/

Jane W. Wang is a self-actualization coach based in Taipei, Taiwan. She spoke candidly with me about the challenges she faced in her journey to become a coach, which involved dealing with imposter syndrome and bouts of depression. She's channeled these personal experiences into creating her Multicultural Hero's Journey program. We also talked about the field of coaching, what coaching is, and how it differs from counseling and psychotherapy. I interviewed Jane back in July of this year. We've spoken since then and Jane is ever evolving. It'll be interesting to see what future developments we hear from her.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• Jane's connection to Taiwan
• How being a third culture kid (TCK) has shaped her identity and life purpose
• Her career path before becoming a coach
• Why she wanted to become a coach
• Her personal journey, the struggles and depression that she dealt with along the way before she became a coach
• Why she decided not to get a degree in counseling from Columbia University and instead got certified in coaching
• What is coaching and how it differs from counseling or psychotherapy
• Jane's own experiences with coaching, being the person being coached by someone else
• Jane's advice on how to pick a coach to work with
• The challenges Jane faced in becoming a coach
• The depression and imposter syndrome she experienced in the process of becoming a coach
• How Jane dealt with her self-judgment and learned to love herself
• How Jane dealt with three bouts of depression
• What she learned from going through depression
• How someone can identify whether or not they themselves or someone they know is experiencing depression
• How Jane created her Multicultural Hero's Journey coaching program
• Who would benefit the most by going through the Multicultural Hero's Journey coaching program
• Jane's advice for people who are interested in becoming a coach
• What it takes to be a good coach

Related Links:

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https://talkingtaiwan.com/jane-wang-battles-depression-and-navigates-a-multicultural-heros-journey-ep-150/

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:

My guest on this episode of Talking Taiwan is Keelung City Councilor, Jiho Chang 張之豪. Jiho spoke with me about his work as a city councilman, and how his interest and involvement in Taiwan's politics dates back to his time as a university student, and the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait missile crisis that happened after KMT presidential candidate Lee Teng-hui visited his alma mater Cornell University and before Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996.

Jiho was among the activists who occupied the Legislative Yuan during the Sunflower movement. He's also one of the co-authors of The Oral History of Su Beng (史明口述史), a biography of the late revolutionary and lifelong Taiwan independence activist Su Beng. We'll have him back on another episode to talk about all that.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• Jiho's background and upbringing
• How/why he decided to return to Taiwan after spending 10 years in Canada
• His study of political science at university in Canada and Taiwan National University
• The 1995-1996 missile crisis in Taiwan
• How he was involved with the 2014 Sunflower movement
• How his first attempt to get elected as a neighborhood warden aka borough warden aka village warden (里長) failed
• How he previously worked as a speechwriter for presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen
• How he got elected as Keelung City Councilor in 2018
• How he got in trouble for posting about his work on as a speechwriter for President Tsai on Facebook
• What his work as a city councilor involves
• How Keelung is one of the smallest cities
• What it took to campaign for the position of city councilor
• Why he ran as a DPP candidate
• The Taiwan People Party and New Power Party
• How long each city councilor position term lasts
• The Ghost Month in Taiwan
• What Jiho finds most rewarding about his work as city councilor
• How Jiho advocated for and helped the widow and family of a man in his constituency to obtain NT$1,000,000 in compensation for his death from his employer of 20 years
• Jiho's future political aspirations

Related Links:

Jiho Chang's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JihoTiun/

Taiwan's first direct presidential election (1996): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Taiwanese_presidential_election

Taiwan's cross strait missile crisis of 1995-1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis#:~:text=The%20Third%20Taiwan%20Strait%20Crisis,1995%20to%2023%20March%201996.

Lee Teng-hui: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Teng-hui

Sunflower Movement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Student_Movement

President Tsai Ing-wen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/iingwen

Tsai Ing-wen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsai_Ing-wen

DPP (Democratic Progressive Party): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party

https://www.dpp.org.tw/en/about

Taiwan People Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_People%27s_Party

New Power Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Power_Party

KMT (Kuomintang): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang

Ghost Month: https://oftaiwan.org/culture/ghost-festival/

Taiwan News article, "12 Ghost Month taboos to watch out for in Taiwan": https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3990308

Su Beng: http://aboutsubeng.com/

In April of this year, reports published by the Pew Research Center analyzing Asian American communities included footnotes stating that data for " 'Chinese' includes those identifying as 'Taiwanese.' " Soon after, in May, the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign published an open letter and petition on TaiwaneseAmerican.org asking Pew Research to issue an apology to the Taiwanese American community, and to re-publish its findings with Taiwanese as a separate category.

Upon hearing this, I reached out to Christina Hu, Director of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign asking to interview her about this. She was working on getting an apology and correction from Pew, so I agreed to wait until she got an official response from Pew to do the interview.

For months, the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign team worked on getting a response from Pew Research and by July Christina told me that she was hoping to get an official response.

On Wednesday, September 8, 2021 Pew Research reissued their report on Asian American communities which had previously misrepresented the Taiwanese. To be clear it was a correction, not an apology. Data for 2000, 2010 and 2019 included the categories of "Chinese, with Taiwanese," "Taiwanese," "Chinese, except Taiwanese" and "Okinawan."

I spoke with Christina Hu, the Director of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign and Chieh-ting Yeh, the Media Director of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign about what transpired after the Taiwanese American community's response to Pew Research's initial report on Asian communities, and what led to Pew to re-issue their report.

We also spoke about the 2020 Write in Taiwanese Campaign and the decades long advocacy work of the Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL), that started in 1990 to educate the Taiwanese American community to complete the US Census by not only checking the "Other Asian" box, but also writing in "Taiwanese."

The Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign Team:

Christina Hu

Director, Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign

Director of Civic Engagement, Taiwanese American Citizens League

Chieh-Ting Yeh

Media Director, Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign

Editor-in-Chief, Ketagalan Media

Leona Chen

Creative Director, Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign

Editor-in-Chief, TaiwaneseAmerican.org

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• How Christina got involved in the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign
• How Ting (Chieh-ting) got involved in the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign
• The background and history of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign
• The evolution of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign since it started in1990
• Why it's important to be counted on the U.S. census
• It wasn't until 1960 that people could select their own race on the U.S. census
• Why it is important for Taiwanese Americans to be counted on the U.S. census
• How the Pew Research Reports which used U.S. census data misrepresented the Taiwanese
• The Pew Research Report on Asian American communities that included a footnote stating that data for " 'Chinese' includes those identifying as 'Taiwanese.' "
• The communications that the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign and Christina had with Pew Research and Neil Ruiz, the Associate Director of Race and Ethnicity
• The open letter and online petition (posted on TaiwaneseAmerican.org) asking Pew Research to issue an apology to the Taiwanese American community, and to re-publish its findings with Taiwanese as a separate category
• The various groups that signed the online petition and supported the Taiwanese American community's campaign to ask Pew Research for an apology and correction of their reports that did not include Taiwanese as a separate category
• How Christina discovered that the Pew Research report had disappeared Okinawans as a separate category
• What happened in the four months that the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign tried to get an official response from Pew Research
• The conversations that Christina had with Neil Ruiz about why it was important for her personally, to identify as Taiwanese, and why Pew could say they were confused by self-reported data from the Taiwanese American community that unequivocally indicated that people wanted to be identified as Taiwanese
• The slogan of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign

Related Links:

Key facts about Asian origin groups in the U.S. (from Pew Research): https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/29/key-facts-about-asian-origin-groups-in-the-u-s/

Response to Pew Research Reports Hiding Taiwanese Identity: "We made it count. Now tell our stories." (The open letter and online petition that appeared on TaiwaneseAmerican.org): https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2021/05/pew-research-center-taiwanese-american-statement/

Some of the responses on Twitter to Pew Research Reports Hiding Taiwanese Identity: https://twitter.com/search?q=taiwanese%20census%202020%20pew&src=typed_query&f=top

Pew Research reissues report on Asian Americans after misrepresenting Taiwanese Americans: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2021/09/pew-research-reissues-report-on-asian-americans-after-misrepresenting-taiwanese-americans/

Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/write.in.taiwanese.census

Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/write.in.taiwanese.census/

Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign videos on TACL's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/tacitizensleague/videos

Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL): https://tacl.org/

TACL Census 2020 "Write in Taiwanese" Campaign: https://tacl.org/census-2020/

How many Taiwanese live in the U.S.? It's not an easy question to answer: https://medium.com/pew-research-center-decoded/how-many-taiwanese-live-in-the-u-s-its-not-an-easy-question-to-answer-315c042839dc

Write in "Taiwanese" - US Census 2010 You Tube video: https://youtu.be/mcFLfw73O30

The changing categories the U.S. census has used to measure race (from the Pew Research Center): https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/25/the-changing-categories-the-u-s-has-used-to-measure-race/

Christina Hu's You Tube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdfvPGT3zqZPP3rfAFAGLdw

Ketagalan Media: https://ketagalanmedia.com/

Taking Taiwan interview with Ho Chie Tsai the Founder of TaiwaneseAmerican.org: https://talkingtaiwan.com/tt025-ho-chie-tsai/

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:

Happy Labor Day! We've decided to take a break ourselves, so we are sharing one of our past episodes that I think really stands the test of time. In 2013 I interviewed entrepreneur Yao Huang. That year, she was involved with the Entrepreneur Challenge and Competition, which was organized by the Taiwanese American Professionals, New York Chapter and the Taiwan Merchants Association. Yao talked about how she went from a career in pharmacy to venture capital, and how she founded The Hatchery to grow Silicon Alley, New York City's tech community. I think you'll find that the perspective and advice that she offers in this interview sound and still relevant today.

Yao is the founder of The Hatchery and she's been named by Forbes one of 11 women at the center of New York's digital scene. Her entrepreneurship has been written about in Fortune magazine, and various publications.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• Yao's connection to Taiwan
• Yao's involvement with the TAP-NY's (Taiwanese American Professionals, New York chapter) and Taiwan Merchants Association's Entrepreneur Challenge and Competition (ECC)
• Yao's career prior to becoming an entrepreneur
• How she advised one of the companies competing in the ECC
• The first company she started
• How she made the transition from pharmacy in to entrepreneurship and venture capital
• What is venture capitalism
• What The Hatchery does
• How The Hatchery has been integral in growing New York's tech community
• The Hatchery's incubator program
• Why Yao founded The Hatchery
• Silicon Valley vs. Silicon Alley
• What it was like leaving her job in pharmacy to start a company
• What advice she has for people who want to start a business
• What she loves the most about what she does
• Her passion project, Win4Causes
• What she finds so rewarding about what she does

Related Links:

Yao Huang on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaohui/

The Hatchery website: https://hatchery.vc/

The Hatchery's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehatchery/

The Hatchery on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thehatchery

2013 Entrepreneur Challenge and Competition (ECC) organized by the Taiwanese American Professionals, New York Chapter and the Taiwan Merchants Association: https://bit.ly/3DMaVpd

Nomz, the company that Yao advised during the ECC: https://www.eatnomz.com/

Talking Taiwan Episode 30, TAP-NY's Entrepreneur Challenge and Competition: https://talkingtaiwan.com/tt026-tapny/

Yao Huang's TED Talk, Talent incubator: Yao Huang at TEDxBroadway: https://youtu.be/qjFR0F_5K4g

Yao Huang's TED Talk, I for Innovation: https://youtu.be/jbjQYQ3IXj8

Tiffany Yu is a disability activist, CEO and founder of Diversability, and host of Tiffany & Yu, a social impact podcast. She's also on the San Francisco Mayor's Disability Council, a three-time TED Talk speaker and has a list of many more impressive accomplishments that appear on her Wikipedia page.

She spoke with tremendous vulnerability about her disability origin story, the trauma she's experienced, dealing with shame, and her continued healing.

Tiffany also shared about the many exciting projects she's working on for Diversability and in the disability space.

CORRECTION: At x:xx when Tiffany mentioned a TED Tallk "The Danger of a Single Narrative" she was referring to the TED Talk "The Danger of a Single Story."

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• How Tiffany spearheaded the Taiwan Necklace Project to raise money for ITASA (Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association)
• Tiffany's disability origin story
• How she came up with the idea for her company Diversability in 2009 while a student at Georgetown University
• The work that Diversability does
• How Diversability went from a side hustle to something fulltime years later in 2017
• How Diversability is about improving the lives and well-being of disabled people
• How can Diversability make disability a reason to belong and not a reason to exclude
• What happened in 2019 that made Tiffany realize that she was experiencing PTSD and how she dealt with it
• Tiffany's thoughts on her first TED Talk
• What has changed since Tiffany started Diversability
• How Tiffany was able to get the mayor of San Francisco to declare July Disability Pride Month in 2020
• How Tiffany has evolved since she first founded Diversability
• News about Diversability
• The "Disability is not a bad word" T-shirt campaign
• The Diversabillity Leadership Collective
• The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) goal of economic self-sufficiency
• How Tiffany has launched an endowment fund at Georgetown University for disability-related initiatives
• The comments that Tiffany's mom made about Diversability in 2018
• How Tiffany deals with her mother's opinion of the work she does with Diversability
• Tiffany's podcast Tiffany & Yu, which she started in 2020 during the Coronavirus pandemic
• Tiffany's favorite episode of her podcast Tiffany & Yu
• Laverne Cox's term "possibility model"
• The term ableism
• How Tiffany enjoys making Tik Tok dance videos
• The accomplishment that Tiffany is most proud of
• How the Paralympics may be used as a reason not to care about disability
• The term inspiration porn
• How paralympican Rebecca Meyers' request to have a personal care assistant accompany her was denied

Related Links:

Tiffany Yu's website: https://www.tiffanyyu.com/

Tiffany and Yu podcast: https://www.tiffanyyu.com/podcast

Tiffany Yu on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imtiffanyyu/

Tiffany Yu on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/imtiffanyyu

Tiffany Yu on Twitter: https://twitter.com/imtiffanyyuv

Tiffany Yu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyayu/

Tiffany Yu on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/tiffanyayu

Tiffany Yu on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Yu

Diversability: https://mydiversability.com/

Diversability Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/diversabilitycommunity

Diversability Leadership Collective: http://diversability.mn.co

Diversability Facebook page: http://facebook.com/diversability

Diversability on Twitter: http://twitter.com/diversability

Diversability on Instagram: http://instagram.com/diversability

Disability Empowerment Endowment Fund to support disability initiatives in perpetuity at Georgetown University: https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1686/18/giving.aspx?sid=1686&gid=4&pgid=3975&cid=5816&dids=534.144&bledit=1&sort=1&unit=34&appealcode=21HW001312

The Georgetown Voice article, "Alumna Tiffany Yu looks to cement legacy of disability justice as students push for Disability Cultural Center" about the endowment fund for disability related initiatives at Georgetown University that Tiffany is raising money for:

https://georgetownvoice.com/2021/08/09/alumna-cements-legacy-of-disability-justice-students-push-for-cultural-center/

Tiffany's first TED Talk, The Power of Exclusion: https://www.ted.com/talks/tiffany_yu_the_power_of_exclusion?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Tiffany's second TED Talk, The Truths About Being A Pioneer: https://www.ted.com/talks/tiffany_yu_the_truths_about_being_a_pioneer?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Tiffany's third TED Talk, The Problem with Positivity: https://www.ted.com/talks/tiffany_yu_the_problem_with_positivity?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

The Danger of a Single Story (TED Talk): https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder): https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/ptsd/what-is-ptsd

Post-traumatic growth (PTG): https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/11/growth-trauma

Dr. Robert Bullard: https://drrobertbullard.com/

https://www.unep.org/championsofearth/laureates/2020/robert-bullard

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): https://adata.org/learn-about-ada

Tiffany &Yu Episode 18, Disability Pride, ADA30 & Diversability's D-30 Disability Impact List ft. Alex Locust (Glamputee): https://www.tiffanyyu.com/podcast/018

Laverne Cox Calls Herself a 'Possibility Model' on Katie Couric: https://taggmagazine.com/laverne-cox-on-katie-couric/

Laverne Cox On Why She Still Has Something To Prove: https://www.forbes.com/sites/moiraforbes/2016/06/30/laverne-cox-on-why-she-still-has-something-to-prove/?sh=433c972b5638

Talila Lewis' Working Definition of Ableism: https://www.talilalewis.com/blog/january-2021-working-definition-of-ableism

Tiffany &Yu Episode 17, Leadership Lessons from Yoga Journal Racism & Controversy ft. Nicole Cardoza (Anti-Racism Daily): https://www.tiffanyyu.com/podcast/017

Stella Young's TED Talk, I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much: https://youtu.be/8K9Gg164Bsw

Paralympian Rebecca Meyers' Op Ed in USA Today, "Paralympic swimmer: I don't want to pull out of Tokyo Games, but I've been given no choice": https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/07/20/paralympic-swimmer-becca-meyers-covid-19-tokyo-olympic-games/8006062002/

Paralympian Rebecca Meyers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Meyers

Tiffany and the Taiwan necklace project featured on Outreach for Taiwan (2014): https://oftaiwan.org/2014/11/13/talk4tw-tiffany-yu/

Tiffany talks about being Taiwanese, ITASA and the Taiwan necklace project: https://youtu.be/uaZC9fgdRwo

Taiwanese American.org: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/

ITASA (Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association): https://itasa.org/

TACL (Taiwanese American Citizens League): https://tacl.org/