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

这是对中国女权主义运动与LGBTQ权利运动之间关系的民族志探索。它质疑性和性别身份如何影响个人与女权主义运动结盟的愿望。该项目重新审视了关于亲缘关系和社会关系（亲属关系）的既定人类学问题，以性别和性为基础检查社区和政治联盟的形成。通过观察LGBTQ群体中形成的亲属关系结构，我对传统的中国亲属关系方法提出了质疑。共同的歧视经历将LGBTQ个体聚集在基于身份的另类亲属群体中，这种群体取代了传统的亲属结构，并提供了免受歧视的安全。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，形成了独特的歧视形式。我将使用交叉性作为一种方法论来质疑经历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女权主义活动家肖和张夫妇在中国成都建立女权主义/LGBTQ社区的工作。肖是一名泛性恋者，张是一名女同性恋者，她们将自己作为女权主义者的身份与发现自己的性取向和LGBTQ群体联系起来。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（女性化和异性恋）。在为女权主义-酷儿的国际“边缘化”空间做出贡献的同时，这种行动主义的民族志旨在重新思考女权主义和酷儿抵抗的协同作用。它的目的是解开性-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。

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.