Jingchao Ma
Jingchao (Chris) Ma is a current doctoral student in Philosophy at Villanova University. She is interested in forming a feminist understanding of subjectivity, social power, and bodily experience, and thereby creating new ways of imagining political futures. For her dissertation project, she examines the notion of border and territory and the analogy of spatiality when applied to genders and gendered bodies. Her research draws from various resources, including phenomenology, existentialism, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis.
Besides her academic work, she is also involved in the activism scene. She participated in a feminist theater work in her college in Shanghai, and currently serves as a board member of Chinese Lala (LBTI) Alliance.
Awarded Grants
2014
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Jingchao will make a short film presenting the diverse understandings and imaginations of home and family from queer and transfolk communities in Philadelphia and Taiwan. Based on interviews conducted locally and abroad in Taiwan, the film will be open-ended and explore various meanings of home and home building. Jingchao’s aim is to convey the different yet similar voices captured throughout the interviews and bring them together, so that an audience can appreciate and celebrate the rich ways of thinking and living that these communities create.
