Welcome to the New Bloom Newsletter!
New Bloom Magazine is an online publication that was founded in 2014 in the wake of Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and features radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific. New Bloom as an organization seeks to provide a space to foster political and intellectual transnational dialogues on the Left.
In 2022, New Bloom opened a physical community space in Taipei called DAYBREAK. Since then, we have been hosting regular events covering a range of social issues in both English and Mandarin, serving as a resource to both local and international activists in Taipei, and building an in-person community for progressives and leftists in Taiwan.
The New Bloom Newsletter provides a space for readers and community members outside of Taipei to engage in the broader political dialogue that New Bloom aims to foster. The newsletter was created to consolidate the many various events and work done by New Bloom members and the greater community for a broader public to engage. We hope that the New Bloom Newsletter can serve as an interface for an international community to engage with both us and the work we do, and with each other.
Here is a summary of New Bloom’s different branches:
New Bloom Magazine — an online magazine featuring radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific.
DAYBREAK — Events space in Wanhua, Taipei. Please see our DAYBREAK FAQ for more info!
No Man Is An Island — An online publication focused on the connections between everyday life and politics, writing on Taiwan and other peripheral places in the world at the margins.
The Daybreak Project — The Daybreak Project is an interactive encyclopedia and oral history archive of the 2014 Sunflower Movement.
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Why Subscribe?
Subscribers can stay up to date with what is happening in Taiwan through our biweekly New Bloom news roundups, DAYBREAK event recaps, and newsletter-exclusive posts. All of our posts are sent directly to your inbox and are automatically archived after two weeks. We currently offer three different subscription tiers:
Free subscribers: Access to biweekly publication and events roundups, as well as free newsletter posts.
Paid subscribers (USD $7/month): Full access to archived and paid posts, as well as the ability to comment.
Founding subscribers (starting at USD $100/year): Full access and commenting, as well as public acknowledgement and the opportunity to write a subscriber testimonial on our pinned founding subscribers thank you page.
New Bloom operates entirely on volunteer-run labor. Your subscription helps us cover expenses associated with running all our operations, the primary one in terms of costs being DAYBREAK. Any subscription revenue beyond operation costs go towards nominal labor compensation for the New Bloom team.
Meet the Newsletter Team
El (she/her) is a contributor & organizer at New Bloom. She is most excited about helping the greater world learn about Taiwan through critically aware and leftist perspectives. El does a lot of the behind-the-scenes work at New Bloom be it social media, designing posters, or seeing events from ideation to end at DAYBREAK. El is the artist behind the art piece of animals hanging out at DAYBREAK. You can contact El at newbloomdaybreak@gmail.com.
Yo-Ling Chen (他/they) is a contributing editor at New Bloom Magazine, founding editor and translator at 酷兒翻越 Queer Margins, and a non-binary aspec activist based in Taipei. They primarily write about gender diversity and transgender issues in Taiwan. Please see their personal website for more information, as well as their Patreon to consider supporting their work!
