江盛 2012/09/06
台灣許多媒體報導五十三歲葉鳳珠病患陳屍家中的道德譴責方式令人不安，以頭條新聞誇大而一面倒的指摘兒子、媳婦不肖，惡意遺棄更令人懷疑，而檢方聲押獲准的處理方式也讓人感慨。顯然地，廉價和容易的道德武器在台灣處處站上風，葉鳳珠罹患的是亨丁頓舞蹈症，她的死亡無可避免，是解脫，不具名的醫學中心內部消息指出她的醫師對葉鳳珠的媳婦充滿同情，多年來葉鳳珠一直由媳婦陪同到醫院看病。
在人生旅途中，發現女性主義是一新的起點，給我新的視角來檢視人生與世界，也帶來勇氣和能量。改變自己和世界需要耐心與毅力，但這條道路並不孤單。
回首來時路，女性主義陪伴我走過前途未卜的婦研拓荒期、充滿激情的婦運、森嚴的公職生涯…。雖然渴望擺脫意識型態及組織框架，展開新的旅程，卻也願意時時回到溫馨的起點，一次次再出發，去探尋新的風景和可能。
也願意開放這個起點站，結合創意與資源，讓各色旅程由此開始，奔向美麗新世界。
2012-09-17
從一件死亡看台灣虛幻的道德
To Shulie: With Whom It All Began
I met Shulie at the National
Conference for New Politics, held in Chicago over the Labor Day weekend in 1967.
It was an unsuccessful attempt to unite the organized Left behind a presidential
ticket that would campaign against the war in Viet Nam. A couple women who were
not themselves part of the Left had persuaded the conference organizers to give
them some space for a women’s caucus. Black caucuses at such meetings were
common and accepted, but one for women was by itself radical.
Shulie was one of about four
dozen women who met daily to hammer out a resolution that called attention to
women’s issues – equal pay, childcare, abortion on demand and other things that
today don’t seem very radical. She didn’t say much, but what she did say stuck
in my mind. I would now characterize her views as radical feminism
uncontaminated by left-wing rhetoric – something that one didn’t often encounter
in those days.