Queer feminist kinship: an intersectional approach to creating activism and community in Chengdu, China

酷儿女权主义亲属关系：在中国成都创建行动主义和社区的交叉方法

• 批准号: 2409854
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: School of Oriental and African Studies
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2409854
• 关键词: Queer; feminist; kinship; intersectional; approach

This is an ethnographic exploration of the relationship between feminist activism and the LGBTQ rights movement in China. It questions how sexual and gender identities influence individuals' desires to align with the feminist movement. The project revisits established anthropological questions about relatedness and social ties (kinship), to examine the formation of community and political alliances on the basis of gender and sexuality. I question classical kinship approaches to China by observing kinship structures formed among LGBTQ communities. Shared experiences of discrimination bring LGBTQ individuals together in alternative kinship groups based on identity, which substitute for conventional kinship structures and provide safety from discrimination.Intersectional theory contends that social categories like race, gender, age, sexuality, and class overlap to create unique forms of discrimination. I will use intersectionality as a methodology to question how experiencing overlapping subjectivities and correlative discrimination influences individuals' lives. This extended case study analyses the work of a feminist activist couple, Xiao and Zhang, as they establish a feminist/LGBTQ community in Chengdu, China. Xiao, a pansexual, and Zhang, a lesbian, link their identities as feminists to discovering their sexualities and the LGBTQ community. Joining the feminist movement enabled them to express their sexualities openly, and actively subvert gender and sexuality norms (femininity and heterosexuality). In contributing to the internationally 'marginalised' space of feminism-queering, this ethnography of activism aims to rethink the synergies of feminist and queer resistance. It aims to unpack frictions between sex-sexuality-gender taxonomies (linking female to femininity and heterosexuality), Chinese state policies and the everyday.

这是一个民族志探索女权主义和LGBTQ权利运动在中国之间的关系。它质疑性和性别身份如何影响个人与女权运动保持一致的愿望。该项目重新审视了有关亲缘关系和社会联系（亲属关系）的既定人类学问题，以审查基于性别和性的社区和政治联盟的形成。我通过观察LGBTQ群体之间形成的亲属关系结构，质疑传统的亲属关系方法。共同的歧视经历使LGBTQ个体在基于身份的替代亲属群体中聚集在一起，这取代了传统的亲属结构，并提供了免受歧视的安全感。交叉理论认为，种族，性别，年龄，性取向和阶级等社会类别重叠，创造了独特的歧视形式。我将使用交叉性作为一种方法来质疑经验重叠的主体性和相关的歧视如何影响个人的生活。这个扩展的案例研究分析了一对女权主义活动家夫妇，肖和张，他们在中国成都建立了一个女权主义者/LGBTQ社区。肖，一个泛性恋者，和张，一个女同性恋者，将她们作为女权主义者的身份与发现她们的性取向和LGBTQ社区联系起来。加入女权运动使她们能够公开表达自己的性取向，并积极颠覆性别和性规范（女性气质和异性恋）。在促进国际“边缘化”的空间女权主义酷儿，这民族志的行动旨在重新思考女权主义和酷儿抵抗的协同作用。它旨在解开性-性-性别分类（将女性与女性气质和异性恋联系起来），中国国家政策和日常生活之间的摩擦。