episode 1: pilot—finding the tidal flats

When this project began, Liú intended to make an oral history-based audio documentary in honor of their Taiwanese grandmother. Struggling with their grandmother’s failing health and the limitations of oral history— When we encounter overwhelming silence, how do we record those silences we find in a way that honors everything that they signify?—Liú settled on probing questions of power within familial storytelling. But what surfaced from their interviews with four other queer and trans Asian Americans was more visceral and embodied…