Maulod Ad
Centre for Ageing Research & Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
J Homosex. 2021 Jun 7;68(7):1106-1143. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2021.1888584. Epub 2021 Mar 16.
In Singapore, discrimination toward LGBT citizens has been reinforced through a monolithic notion of the traditional Asian family. This ethnography focuses on the lived experiences of 7 ethnic minority Malay Muslim "butch" individuals and their journey to parenthood. Drawing upon frameworks of intersectionality and piety, I explore how butches negotiate and reconcile their queer practices and desires as Muslim daughters around "coming out," foster children with same-sex partners, being a biological parent and their perceptions of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). Reproductive futures, enacted by Malay Muslim butches, disrupt yet reinforce the durability of "natural" life trajectories scripted through conventions of marriage, family and fatherhood that have, insofar, excluded them. Further, their experiences also offer alternatives to existing literature on same-sex families that tend to render other nonwhite and/or non-Western queer family practices invisible.
在新加坡，对 LGBT 公民的歧视因传统亚洲家庭的单一观念而加剧。这篇民族志聚焦于 7 名少数族裔马来穆斯林“布奇”个体的生活经历以及他们成为父母的历程。借助交叉性和虔诚性框架，我探讨了这些“布奇”作为穆斯林女儿，在“出柜”、与同性伴侣养育孩子、成为亲生父母以及对辅助生殖技术（ART）的认知等方面，如何协商并调和她们的酷儿行为和欲望。马来穆斯林“布奇”所构建的生殖未来，既打破又强化了通过婚姻、家庭和父权制传统所勾勒的“自然”生命轨迹的持久性，而这些传统迄今为止一直将她们排除在外。此外，她们的经历也为现有关于同性家庭的文献提供了不同视角，现有文献往往忽视了其他非白人及/或非西方的酷儿家庭实践。
