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

《同志为友》是一个以实践为基础的创造性非小说类博士项目，它将忏悔回忆录和个人故事与同性恋女权主义理论话语交织在一起。它在一份可供出版的全文手稿中为女性之间的非传统友谊提出了一份宣言。它既是一种学术的自我人种学方法，也是对同性恋友谊的一种女权主义行为的庆祝。叙事是一部实验性的无时间顺序的微型章节拼凑而成的作品，包括散文、诗歌、剧本、明信片和电子邮件等多种形式。包括我自己十段非常规的、跨越国界的、难以贴上标签的友谊的亲密细节、轶事和经历，它们的颠覆性潜力和激进影响将被揭示和审查。这是建立在由女性作家创作的非虚构文学这一新兴领域的基础上的，这些书籍和项目成功地将回忆录与定性研究相结合(Gilbert 2007，Moran 2011，Russell 2016，Nelson 2015，Wilby 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，我将探索将《自我》写为酷儿女权主义方法论的实践，以解决这样一个问题：为什么创造性写作尚未被广泛接受为学术研究？基于伊里加雷、福柯、巴特勒和塞奇威克的理论传统，中心论点是，友谊的重塑存在于他们之间的奇妙之处，以挑战异性恋框架的二元论，而真实的自传体故事讲述对于酷儿女权主义者来说是一种关键的方法论。泰德洛克声称，现在是充满激情的时候，民族志回忆录……其中一个表演者“如实地讲述着它”(332)。鉴于#RiseUp这样的全球激进主义，在这种政治不和谐的气氛中，“同志为友”很重要，并效仿界限模糊的同性恋/女权主义-学术/主流文本，如“阿尔盖茨人”(Nelson，2015)。它将通过内容、形式和批判性反思对学术界的话语做出重大贡献。

'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.