Since Taiwan's 2014 Sunflower Revolution, I've been an undercover of sorts—working with pro-independence parties, joining Indigenous and gender movements, training with U.S. lobbyists, and even infiltrating UN assemblies and China's reunification groups. Sometimes I even lead the movements, uncover something crucial. Sometimes I just get really awkward small talk.

All this fieldwork crystallized into one burning question: "How can marginalized communities queer hegemonic, authoritarian regimes?" --  How do we crack open systems designed to silence many?

I explore this through participatory projects, decentralized technologies, and open-source collaboration—building art with people rather than for them. Sometimes we crack open new possibilities, hunt together for the democratic and humanitarian possibilities hiding in plain sight.

Between projects, I get sick, make imperfect decisions, and ride the ups and downs of art world seasons, activism burnout, and political trauma. Turns out queering power structures also means maintaining sense of play on oppressive roads—all while juggling vulnerable selves and trying to practice care for each other, even when care itself demands resources we don't have and energy we're still learning how to sustain.