LGBT Story Project
Please make some time for me and share your stories, observations, analysis, and practices. Everything you tell will certainly help me understand more of this field.
It would be great if you could kindly help connect me to more people who might be interested in this project or who might be able to refer me to someone else. You are more than welcome to join me in this adventure and travel and learn together, if you happen to have some time and interest. If you are really interested in this project and would like to help me even further, any suggestion, donation, and host are most appreciated.
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· December 15-20, 2014 Manila
· December 20, 2014-January 2, 2015 Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong · January 16-29, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur · January 29-February 5, Koh Yao Yai and Phuket islands · February 5-15, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi · February 20-March 2, Bangkok and Chiang Mai · March 5-April 30, China · May 1-3, 2015 Yangon I want to do something for my community, professionally, in the near future.
Since I had been working with private foundations in China in the past five years but primarily focusing on other social issues, I felt an urge to map out the field a little bit before taking actions. I started a literature review of China LGBT community development in the past decades in early 2014, trying to have an overview of this field through dimensions of chronology, geography, and what initiatives have been done by different social sectors. It is a very interesting process and no doubt I have learnt a lot new knowledge. However, more and more questions pop out along the way. To further understand LGBT related issues, with partial support from the Asia Pacific Leadership Program of the East-West Center, a research and education institute based in Hawai'i, USA,I will travel within greater China and Southeast Asia between December 2014 and May 2015, meet with thoughtful leaders from a wide range of backgrounds (nonprofit, academia, media, health care, public policy, pink economy, art & culture, and etc.), and learn about their experiences, thoughts and practices in regard to various LGBT topics. By reading, conversations, site-visits, volunteer work, and possible workshops, I hope to be able to have preliminary answers to the following questions at the end of this months-long trip: 1) what's going on in the LGBT field in China and Southeast Asia; 2) What are some of the possible future development trends; and 3) Where do I fit in this big picture. |
AuthorHi this is Martin. I am traveling in greater China and Southeast Asia. Looking for conversations, adventures, and more. Archives
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