A chat with Catta Chou, curator of the 2018 Taiwan International Labor Film Festival – which is now underway in Taipei.
The News Lens
Date: 2018/10/24
By: By Alex Chuang, 破土 New Bloom
Credit: Taiwan International Labor Film Festival
Catta Chou (pictured in cover photo) is the curator of the Taiwan International Labor Film Festival. She was interviewed ahead of the Taiwan International Labor Film Festival, which is being held from October 20th to October 28th.
Alex Chuang: Could you talk about how you were introduced to social movement organizing? Did you begin in college or before that?
Catta Chou: Well, I would have to say that I was very normal in high school, but after I entered into university, I joined the student club – the Black Ditch. We call it a yixing shetuan (異議性社團), meaning that people who talk about issues that are not normal or mainstream.
With the student club, they focused on things like property rights, they talk about Marxism, they talk about evictions by the government, they talk about environmental issues, they talk about labor issues, and etc. So these kinds of clubs are very different from the regular student clubs in which people just play guitar, have fun, have events. It’s more like an abnormal student club. [FULL STORY]
