Date: 6 Apr 2022 (Wed)

Time: 12:30 – 14:00

Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)

Speaker: Ms. WONG, Ka Hei Cecilia (Mphil. Student, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Moderator: Prof. Katrien JACOBS (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Abstract:

This study attempts to complicate the understanding of a heteronormative and subjective protest body on LIHKG in the Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement by beginning with the analysis on the affective discourse of我哋真係好撚鍾意香港 (We really fucking love Hong Kong). Yet, instead of delving into the question of who is loved and who is not, I ponder: how does a ‘coherent’ subjective protest body is imagined, outlined and fantasied through the affective-discursive practices of love? Under what circumstances, an individual body is loved or not? How do embodied individuals make sense of it? By attending to the discourse 今生只嫁前線巴，今世只娶後勤絲 ([I] will only marry off to frontline brother, [I] will only marry supporting sister), this study shows how the heterosexual love of conservative gender role is fantasised as the movement ideal between the valiant/ men/ effective and the non-violent/ women/ less effective while in which is full of fractures and openings; and teases out the ambiguous and dynamic relation between the imagined protest body and individual bodies through understanding how gendered individuals negotiate with the protest body in their communal and relational affective meaning-making process.

Speaker’s Biography:

WONG Ka Hei is a MPhil student in Gender Studies (home department in Cultural Studies) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Having digital activist work experiences in environmental campaigning organisations and trained in journalism, her research interests include digital activism, gender and sexuality, affect and emotion, and social justice issues.

Language: English

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646278