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Hello, dear readers!

Today we had planned on sharing our interview with Julia Valero, who has worked with detained migrant families for three years, but the Texas power outages have slowed down the editorial process. We’re hoping to get it out to you next week. 

So, in the meantime, we’ve improvised. There have been many recent sign-ups—thank you!—and we thought you might appreciate an organized guide to the newsletter.

Personal reflections

• Michelle reflects on the anxiety of becoming a new mother and how the spunky girl-heroes of Miyazaki’s films helped. 

• We grieve the passing of Michelle’s grandma, a Chinese refugee in Taiwan. Albert, ever the historian, reconstructs her life. Michelle writes a tribute. 

• Albert talks about Taiwan’s pandemic success story, imagining a moment where “we untether ourselves from Great Power rivalries and envision and remake new forms of global solidarity.”

• Michelle makes a few New Year’s resolutions at the end of 2020, a very bad year.

• Albert thinks about inclu…