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research interest

my research concerns people who “cross borders”. by working with queer as an intersectional analytical category, I explore how “border crossing” (national, cultural, bodily) shapes and is shaped by social processes such as racialisation, cis- and hetero-normativity, nativism and nationalism in the context of globalisation and digitisation. 

「クィア」を交差的な分析カテゴリーとして用い、「越境する」人々に焦点を当てています。グローバル化とデジタル化の文脈において、国家的、文化的、身体的なボーダーを越境することが、シス・ヘテロ規範、レイシャライゼーション、ナティビズム、ナショナリズムなどの社会的プロセスと文化的ナラティブをいかに形成し、またそれらによっていかに形成されるのかを探求しています。

transnarratives queer approach feminist critique

digital ethnography

queer as essentially diasporic

latest publications

When Digital Media Intersects with Queerness: Transnational Connectivity and the Sense of (Dis) Connectedness among Chinese Trans Women in Japan.

 

In Beatrice Zani and Isabelle Cheng ed.

Living Across Connectivity: Intimacy, Entrepreneurship and Activism of East Asian Migrants Online and Offline

London: Anthem Press, pp.113-136.

Chinese Trans Women in Japan and Their Embodied Search for Gender Identity in the Online–Offline Continuum

 

Transfers 12, 3 (2022): 28-46.

DOI: 10.3167/TRANS.2022.120304.

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current projects

差別を自己正当化するメカニズム:在日トランスジェンダー中国人事例を中心に

​*This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP23729000

Monograph Project: Queer Manifesto - Body and Memories in Diaspora

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