Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Te Ngira: Institute for Population Research, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Cult Health Sex. 2024 Jun;26(6):717-733. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2023.2242443. Epub 2023 Aug 11.
Rainbow research tends to prioritise gender and sexuality experiences over the racialised experiences of Asian rainbow young people. Informed by an intersectional lens, we employed a hope-based ecological framework to examine how multiple overlapping axes of oppression (e.g. cisgenderism, heterosexism and racism) shape the aspirations of these youth. We drew on the voices of Asian participants from the 2021 Aotearoa New Zealand , who had responded to an open-text question on their hopes for rainbow young people ( = 217; age range = 14 to 26). The content analysis identified seven prominent categories of hope across three ecological levels (macro exo and meso). These categories were societies: 1) break away from cisheterosexist expectations; 2) confront racism and intersection with cisheterosexism; 3) promote rainbow-inclusive education; 4) ban sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; 5) improve access to culturally safe health care; 6) dismantle white-dominated rainbow spaces; and 7) provide more rainbow-inclusive family support. These hopes were constructed amidst the desire to challenge unacceptance and exclusion by the wider society for not adhering to white cisheterosexist expectations. The study provides critical insights for community organisations, education settings, and government to consider in addressing the diverse needs of Asian rainbow young people.
彩虹研究往往优先考虑性别和性经验，而忽略了亚洲彩虹年轻人的种族化经验。本研究以交叉视角为指导，采用基于希望的生态框架，考察了多种重叠的压迫轴（例如顺性别主义、异性恋主义和种族主义）如何塑造这些年轻人的愿望。我们借鉴了来自 2021 年新西兰的亚洲参与者的声音，他们对彩虹年轻人的希望（ = 217；年龄范围为 14 至 26 岁）做出了开放式问题的回应。内容分析在三个生态层面（宏观、外部和微观）确定了七种突出的希望类别。这些类别包括社会：1）摆脱顺性别异性恋主义的期望；2）直面种族主义，并与顺性别异性恋主义相交织；3）推广彩虹包容教育；4）禁止性取向和性别认同改变的努力；5）改善获得文化安全保健的机会；6）拆除白人主导的彩虹空间；7）提供更多彩虹包容的家庭支持。这些希望是在渴望挑战更广泛社会对不符合白人顺性别异性恋主义期望的不接受和排斥的背景下构建的。该研究为社区组织、教育机构和政府提供了重要的见解，以满足亚洲彩虹年轻人的多样化需求。
