I am the daughter of Lie Chenn Lin and Yin Chou Lin, born in Taiwan into a big extended farming family from which I was taken away when we immigrated to Canada for my father’s graduate education. I’m an interdisciplinary artist, writer/poet and educator in love with the forests of cedar as they burn up in fires stoked by colonialism. Through storytelling and ceremonial activism, I am co-becoming a world of kincentric justice. I pray for the water beings slipping through our fingers. I live in Nonotuck/Nipmuc Land, Western Massachusetts in a town named after a genocidal invader of Turtle Island. I listen to places for ancestral hauntings. I love co-creating kincentric immersive arts with communities restoring and restory-ing good relations with Land, Water, Earth. My burning questions: “how can the arts heal relationships harmed (almost irreparably) by colonization? What is the relationship between healing and justice?” These questions are leading me into unknown territories and becomings where I’m lost in the good company of Bayo Akomolafe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mia Mingus, Zoe Todd, Karen Barad, and many other companions.JuPong was a faculty member in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College for nearly 20 years before the College closed in 2024. She recently completed her doctorate in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England. JuPong's webpage: www.juponglin.net.
