Lin-Ching Hsia
Department of Psychology Fu-Jen Catholic University
Fun-Pin Wang
Solidarity Front for Women Workers
Chia-Chun Chou
Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters
The motivation of this joint-writing article is making a record for the very important historical event of Taipei Protesting Case in 1997. Based on their different situated positions in the 1997 TPPC, each of the three authors describes their participation and their discoveries. Wang, Fun-Pin’s narrative story presents two main issues: (1)how did her working class family background and her involvement in Taiwan workers’ movement influence her initial decision of taking the active position in helping Taipei prostitutes; (2)in lights of human autonomous desires for lives and body/sexual desires, what she has encountered in her involvement with factory workers and sex workers. In Chou’s article, she tried to illustrate how did the helping process and the relationships she has involved with Taipei prostitutes differ from the institutionalized helping profession. Both articles provide readers empirical data to see the kind of intimate understandings they have discovered are, in fact, a base for further inquiry of radical education and organizing methods. Hsia, Lin-Ching reflected on the social activities and the participants’ experiences in TPPC, and took the case as an example of radical learning for grassroots women.
Keywords: social learning, radical education, intimate understanding, job transition guidance