MPhil/PhD in Gender The Voices of Indigenous Queer Subjects in Taiwan: A Focus on Decolonial and Intersectional Queer Activism

这项博士计画旨在研究台湾原住民酷儿题材，探讨原住民酷儿的挣扎，以及草根酷儿积极分子如何发展跨界别策略，为原住民酷儿争取权益。本研究使用了定性研究方法，包括人种学研究、参与者观察和对土著酷儿活动家、组织和事件的结构化访谈。对于二次数据收集，这项研究将分析酷儿文学、音乐和社交媒体，以了解他们对本土酷儿的表达。这项计画旨在透过种族与族群的视角，填补台湾性别与性行为研究之间的研究空白，并分析原住民酷儿激进主义，重点放在非殖民主义与跨界别的层面。土著酷儿对土著和LGBTQ+权利的要求要求LGBTQ+权利运动致力于土著司法，以寻求变革性的变化。通过这个项目，我希望探索中国殖民者殖民主义背景下的非殖民化是什么样子，以及酷儿激进主义在非殖民主义过程中的作用：台湾的本土酷儿主体和激进分子如何在中国殖民者殖民主义的背景下编织本土和酷儿自我制造，台湾的情况与白人殖民主义有何不同？交叉性和黑人女权主义对本土酷儿激进主义的影响是什么？它在台湾如何适用，又有何不同？

This PhD project aims to study indigenous queer subjects in Taiwan, discussing the struggles of indigenous queer peoples and how grassroots queer activists develop intersectional strategies to advocate for indigenous queer people's rights. This research uses qualitative research methods including ethnographic research, participant observation, and structured interviews of indigenous queer activists, organisations and events. For secondary data collection, this research would analyse queer literature, music, and social media to understand their articulation of indigenous queerness. This project aims to fill the research gap between Gender and Sexuality studies in Taiwan through the lens of race and ethnicity and to analyse indigenous queer activism with a focus on the decolonial and intersectional aspects. Indigenous queer peoples' requests for both indigenous and LGBTQ+ rights require the LGBTQ+ rights movement to work on indigenous justice to seek transformative change. Through this project, I wish to explore what decolonisation looks like in the context of Chinese settler colonialism, and what ways queer activism partakes in the decolonising process: How do indigenous queer subjects and activists in Taiwan weave in indigeneity and queer self-making in the context of Chinese settler colonialism, and how is Taiwan's case different from White settler colonialism? What is the influence of intersectionality and Black feminism in indigenous queer activism; how is it applicable and how is it different in Taiwan?