les voix: For/Getting｜Re/Membering

以為這半年　自己已經成熟許多了
結果十天前在機場一見到你　我還是打回原形

　　　　關於愛情　——

關於socio-legal research methods的課，今天的主題是feminist legal approach，大部分的時間課堂都圍繞在gender-based violence和gender discrimination的討論上，但我到半途的時候突然就神遊了，因為我就開始思考一個問題：Where do human rights come from?

From the news that Spain’s king – Felipe VI – got on the cover photo for a national gay magazine – RAGAP, I got a chance to learn more about a new trend in queer theory. At very first glance, I thought it is really fascinating that someone from a royal family shows his great support for gay rights. However, when I asked for opinions from Al who's from Spain, he provides a totally contrary view.

一回到英國，就收到天水宮寄來的大卡片
也教人太感動了，害我險些淚灑洗衣間

Historically, will it be a breakthrough for Taiwan, a lighthouse for Others?!

還記得前陣子台灣昨天傳來一個消息，露德協會公布最新調查
分析2013年愛滋感染者生活現況發現

Queer politics was never really visible and peaking in Taiwan until last year (September 2013) when the petition and great debate upon the so-called ‘Diverse Formation of Family Union Law‘ (including same-sex marriage, civil partnership system, and multiple-member family system) was incorporated into the Parliament’s agenda. This year, the political atmosphere has been even more intensified and heightened with the LGBTI rights movement.

As ‘black is beautiful’, ‘gay is great’ too.

When people need ‘identity’, it means they are fed up with anymore oppression and ready to fight. To me, the concept of ‘identity’ is very identical to ‘sovereignty’. Not simply a metaphor, it is the fundamental rationale for a subjective to position itself in a society, whether a State or a person. Within the socially constructed world, an identity may operationalise one’s uniqueness, but sometimes also undermine one’s chance to be normalised.

學弟在FB上寫著：某名師在班上跟同學說國際公法沒用。
「國際法！原來有這種東西？」（國際社會到底有沒有法秩序？）

分到的時間越來越少，幾秒　卻是對付寂寞唯一解藥
你的生活那麼精采熱鬧，傻傻等　我只能盡量不打擾

Turn to 1976, Foucault sort of changed his focus from purely medicine, biology, and psychoanalysis to discipline, and political economics. But, what had never been changed was his purpose to revealing a real history of knowledge by conducting an archaeological research and endeavouring to found the genealogical relationships that modernity might build upon. That is why he has often been classified as a post-modernist as being critical, or sometimes sceptical.

With regard to Foucault’s idea, I found that it was pretty difficult to grasp his whole idea by simply looking at these 2 articles, that are, the excerptions from The Order of Things of 1966 and Power/Knowledge of 1976, but from observing the ideas across within these 10 years, it became clear to see what Foucault was trying to establish, namely the genealogies of knowledges by conducting an archaeological methods in order to elaborate upon the relationship between power and knowledge.

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” - by Stephen Hawking

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It?
(Paul Collier, 2007)

I just had my first meeting with my supervisor team. I think there’s gonna be a very intensive and challenging process for years. 得到很多忠告和建議 [think big, but do small], 他們對我的研究很有想法跟規劃, 讓我突然感受到the game is on now! 話說剛裝潢好的法學院還真是漂亮。

如題。

在出國之前，為了生病的事其實作了很多功課
包括心之谷、露德、權促，都曾是我諮詢的對象

「懂得」

繼昨天筆試（surprisingly）高分通過後
而且我的題目都難到掉渣，有罰鍰、有日期還有機械

聯合國人權理事會在最近一次的會期中選派了來自立陶宛的Dainius Puras（醫學背景）作為第三任（第一任為Paul Hunt；第二任為Anand Grover）的「健康權特別報告員」（Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health）。

台北市裡的許多角落彷彿潛藏了許多行蹤成謎的已婚男子
還有神秘兮兮的上班族，平時週末不喜歡與同事交際

民國　一○三　年
陸　月　貳拾柒　至　貳拾玖　日

【When People Come First】
“When People Come First” critically assesses