Wu Yao Yao

Introduction

Cross-cultural, but also cross-disciplinary. Social science background + anthropology discipleship + social epidemiology. Trying to balance rationality of science and humanistic care, while teaching, researching, and engaging in advocacy in parallel. He believes that public writing promotes understanding and understanding contributes to social cohesion. His target is works that can be understood by his mother and his three aunts who only graduated from elementary school. He is not good at writing techniques, but likes to tell stories with a direct punch, and practices being a storyteller.

Resident planning

“I tested positive.” Before 2020, this phrase often referred to testing positive for HIV/AIDS. Fear of being found out, fear of being discriminated against and stigmatized by various experiences that impact studies, family life, employment, and partners; after being HIV positive we become vampires hiding from the crowd. After the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the world, a strong sense of perspective resurfaced. Once there were only a few infected people, as more and more people became infected, the fear of blaming the infected for not protecting themselves and condemning those who lived with the infected gradually became habitual. The experience of stigma and labeling has become the collective experience of Taiwan citizens. I seek to explore whether “we” are asked to understand how people living with HIV have been treated in the past as a result of the new experience of testing positive with COVID-19.