Queer as Friends: rewriting the platonic-romantic relationship binary between women

“酷儿作为朋友”是一个基于实践的创造性非小说类博士项目，交织忏悔回忆录和个人故事与酷儿女权主义理论话语。它提出了一个宣言，为非传统的友谊之间的妇女在一个完整的长度出版准备手稿。它的目的是既是一个自我民族志的方法来奖学金和庆祝酷儿友谊作为一个女权主义行为。叙事是一个实验性的非时间顺序拼凑的微型章节，包括散文，诗歌，剧本，明信片和电子邮件的混合形式。包括亲密的细节，轶事和经验，从我自己的十个非传统的，跨越边界的，难以标记的友谊，他们的破坏性潜力和激进的影响将被发现和检查。这建立在女性作家，书籍和项目的新兴创意非小说领域，成功地将回忆录与定性研究相结合（吉尔伯特2007，莫兰2011，罗素2016，纳尔逊2015，威尔比2017）。该项目的关键组成部分是不可或缺的，并与创意作品紧密结合。通过自我反思，访谈，多学科的二次研究和文学调查，我将探索写作自我的实践作为酷儿女性主义的方法，以解决这个问题：为什么创造性写作尚未被广泛接受为学术？基于伊利加雷、福柯、巴特勒和塞奇威克的理论传统，本书的核心论点是，重塑友谊的过程在于对友谊的一种酷儿化，以挑战异性恋规范框架的二元性，而真实的自传式故事讲述是酷儿女权主义者的一种批判方法论。泰德洛克声称，“现在是激情的、民族志的回忆录的时候了。其中表演者“如实讲述”（332）。在这种政治不和谐的气氛中，“同志如朋友”是重要的，鉴于全球行动主义，如#RiseUp，并遵循边界模糊的同性恋/女权主义学术/主流文本，如“阿尔戈英雄”（纳尔逊，2015）。它将通过内容、形式和批判性反思对学术话语做出重大贡献。

'Queer as Friends' is a practice-based creative non-fiction PhD project which interweaves confessional memoir and personal storytelling with queer feminist theoretical discourse. It proposes a manifesto for unconventional friendships between women in a full-length publication-ready manuscript. It is intended to be both an autoethnographic approach to scholarship and a celebration of queer friendships as a feminist act. The narrative is an experimental non-chronological patchwork of micro-chapters comprising mixed forms including prose, poetry, script, postcard and email. Encompassing intimate details, anecdotes and experiences from ten of my own unconventional, boundary-crossing, hard-to-label friendships, their disruptive potential and radical effects will be uncovered and examined. This builds on the emerging field of creative non-fiction by women writers, books and projects that successfully blend memoir with qualitative research (Gilbert 2007, Moran 2011, Russell 2016, Nelson 2015, Wilby 2017). The project's critical component is integral and closely aligned with the creative piece. Through self-reflection, interviews, multi-disciplinary secondary research and literary investigation, I will explore the practice of writing the self as queer feminist methodology, in order to address the question: why is creative writing not yet widely accepted as scholarship?Building on the theoretical traditions of Irigaray, Foucault, Butler and Sedgwick, the central theses are that the reshaping of friendships lies within a queering of them to challenge the binaries of a heteronormative framework, and that authentic autobiographical storytelling is a critical methodology for queer feminists.Tedlock claims, 'Now is the time for passionate, ethnographic memoir...in which a performer "is telling it like it is"' (332). 'Queer as Friends' is important during this climate of political disharmony, in light of global activism such as #RiseUp and to follow the lead from boundary blurring queer/feminist-academic/mainstream texts such as 'The Argonauts' (Nelson, 2015). It will contribute significantly to discourse of academia through content, form and critical reflection.