On April 11th, 2017, I attended Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dream Tour in my home country, Taiwan. I was there, not only hoping to enjoy their first ever concert in Taiwan for the in twenty years but also as a Global Citizen volunteer. On behalf of Global Citizen, we asked people to sign the petition on asking world leaders to help with the sanitation and water sources in under-developed countries and to level the law in every country in order to end discriminations on women.
I’ve become a Global Citizen since November 2015, when the world leaders were having a meeting on Sustainable Development Goals in the United Nations Headquarter, New York, and Global Citizen holding their own Global Citizen Festival in the Central Park.
Even though it seems unlikely for me to ever be part of huge events like Global Citizen Festival (it has only been held in the U.S., India, and next year in Germany), I still read their posts on social medias, sign petitions, and tweet to support the issues from time to time.
And I suppose what I did above eventually paid off, because two months before Coldplay’s Taipei concert, I received an online application link from Global Citizen, looking for volunteers joining them before every Coldplay’s Asia show. I was literally shaking while I filled in my application. It all felt so unreal, that I am actually one step forward to speak on behalf of Global Citizen! What excited me more, was that we will be advocating Gender Equality.
Now this will lead us to another story of mine. In order to explain how I became an advocate for Gender Equality and Feminism, I would like to give my credits to these two incredible young women: Malala Yousafzai and Emma Watson.