When we create a safe space for a community’s participants, to observe and decide our own social scripts, we can collectively program a social norm that is both rigorous and creative — just like the best formulas, poems, and programs.
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Songs of Defiance: LGBT Pop Music in Taiwan (Post-2018 Referendum) [Part 2]
Written by Matt Taylor In part one of this two-article feature, where we are trying to understand the impact of the November 2018 same-sex marriage
Songs of Defiance: LGBT Pop Music in Taiwan (Post-2018 Referendum) [Part 1]
As Taiwan’s LGBT community reels from the result of the referendum, they can find solace in the rich collection of Taiwan’s LGBT music cannon. Those songs that saw the community fight against discrimination, against inequality, and espouse the values of freedom, individuality and defying the status quo have an even more important meaning now than they did before.
Women as Workers, Women as Agents: Studying Labor and Gender in Industrial and Postindustrial Taiwan
While my past work focused on individual acts of resistance, my recent work investigates the possibility of collective actions to address the issue of gender inequality.
LGBT issues in 2019
While many DPP supporters of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights more broadly (e.g. legislator Yu Mei-Nu) spoke out in favour of legalization, in large part they lacked a clear message that would appeal to the otherwise indifferent, making the job easier for anti-LGBT groups.
Taiwan’s Cultural Plurality and Immigration Policy
Written by Ji-ping Lin Much like many countries, Taiwan has a long historical tradition of migration, including internal and international. Taiwan’s early developments were
Taiwan’s population growth… or lack thereof
Written by Marcus Roberts. The big demographic news out of Asia recently has been the “unstoppable” demographic decline that China is about to undergo thanks
Taiwan – shrinking and increasingly alone
Written by Marcus Roberts. Once our three children are in bed (a process that can take some time, much to my frustration) I often relax
Mindfulness in Taiwan
Written by Chung-Wei Lin Mindfulness originated from the early Buddhist classics referred to as “Samyukta-Agama” and “Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta”. Mindfulness are those teachings of the Buddha that were handed to the disciples, and which Buddhists believe are the direct path to realization. Mindfulness has four steps: mindfulness of the body
The Importance of Primary School Teachers’ Mental Health in Taiwan
Written by Pei-Hsin Li “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their
Tsai’s Domestic Troubles in 2019
Written by Mark Weatherall and Kai-Ping Huang. For President Tsai Ing-wen, the shock win of the KMT candidate Han Kuo-yu in the mayoral election for
Cross-Strait relations 2019: Promoting and rejecting unification
Written by Qi Dongtao. The dynamics of cross-Strait relations in 2019 were revealed by Taiwan and mainland China’s top leaders’ speeches in the first two
