‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI:10.1177/13678779221144759

Haowen Zheng

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article examines queer international students’ negotiation of sexuality and family ties maintenance during the Covid-19 pandemic. In considering the transitions in queer identity making, I highlight the complexity of coming out to parents. The performative dimension of social media allows queer international students to curate selective presentations and connect with their families digitally in immobile times. However, the technological affordance of social media is porous and productive, triggering the possibility of leakage and accidental outings but enabling negotiation afterwards. Drawing on two rounds of in-depth and social media scroll-back interviews with 20 Chinese queer female international students in Australia in 2021, this article identifies the social roles of social media in managing ties between queer international students and their overseas parents (shielding, leakage, and routing). It also complicates the extant implications of pandemic immobility in a specific context of queer transitions.

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“疫情帮助了我！”不动时代酷儿留学生与家人在社交媒体上的身份协商

本文探讨了新冠肺炎大流行期间酷儿国际学生对性和家庭关系维护的谈判。在考虑同性恋身份形成的转变时，我强调了向父母公开的复杂性。社交媒体的表演维度使酷儿国际学生能够策划选择性的演讲，并在不动的时代与家人建立数字联系。然而，社交媒体的技术可供性是多孔的和富有成效的，这引发了泄露和意外外出的可能性，但也促成了之后的谈判。本文通过对2021年在澳大利亚的20名中国酷儿女留学生的两轮深入和社交媒体滚动采访，确定了社交媒体在管理酷儿留学生与其海外父母之间关系（屏蔽、泄露和路由）方面的社会作用。这也使在酷儿过渡的特定背景下，疫情不动的现存影响变得复杂。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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