Not yet translated into English, Her Battles tells the stories of female activists and dissidents in China and their activism, roughly spanning the early 2000s to 2016. But Zhao Sile, also known as Alison Zhao, is also an activist in her own right...
A draft bill by the Health Promotion Administration aims to remove the current requirement for women to have the consent of their partners before an abortion. Likewise, an online petition on a platform run by the National Development Council has been started to call for the lifting of the current requirement....
An attempted murder-suicide case that took place in New Taipei earlier this year has resulted in a death sentence for a thirty-year-old woman who killed her six-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter before attempting to kill herself. The verdict, which can still be appealed, was made by the New Taipei District Court...
The Judicial Yuan has announced that it has completed a draft bill that would lift some of the currently existing limits on transnational same-sex marriages in Taiwan. The draft bill will next be reviewed by other government bureaus, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Justice, and the Mainland Affairs Council...
Pride was commemorated in Taipei this afternoon, with a small parade at Liberty Plaza titled “Taiwan Pride Parade for the World”. Around 1,000 were in attendance, despite showers through the afternoon...
For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Na Young about the effects of COVID-19 on the LGBTQ community in South Korea. Na Young is one of the co-founders of the SHARE (center for Sexual rigHts And Reproductive justicE) and the Queer Action Against COVID-19 Coalition...
The constitutional court ruled to decriminalize adultery yesterday in a ruling which has been hailed as a step forward for sexual freedoms in Taiwan...
With the one year anniversary of Taiwan’s legalization of gay marriage coming up later this month, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights has announced a campaign aimed at broadening the scope of transnational gay marriages in Taiwan...
