Meet the Activist: A Talk with Xiangqi
Thursday, September 27th
5:30-6:30pm
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
116 East 16^th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003

A rapidly growing city both in terms of population and of cultural diversity, Shanghai is home to one of the most active and thriving community of queer women in China. Quickly growing, Shanghai’s queer women activists are using online community, street politics, cultural work, social gatherings, and education to raise awareness. This Thursday, Astraea welcomes Xiangqi, founder of the leading queer women’s group Nu’Ai (“Women Love”) to share the story of this organization’s seven year history and her own experience as a queer social activist in Shanghai.

This event will be held in Mandarin Chinese and English. 

Xiangqi is one of the first queer social activists in China. In 2002, Xiangqi established one of the largest online forum for Chinese queer women, LESCN. She also started the first online radio program for queer women in mainland China. When the Chinese Lala Alliance (CLA) was founded in 2008, Xiangqi was appointed its Secretary General and has since worked for CLA. Xiangqi is also one of the co-founders and administrators of the Shanghai LGBT Center.

In 2005, Xiangqi founded Nu’Ai, the first Shanghai-based NGO for queer women. Nu’Ai has played an important role in not only in local queer communities and national queer organizing, but also in Shanghai’s feminist activist scene. Nu’Ai initiated local performances of “The Vagina Monologues” and recently lauched a street campaign against sexual harassment which aroused wide public concern, and was called “China’s Slutwalk in the Internet Age”.

上海拉拉组织与社群
嘉宾：想起
时间：9月23日，周日，下午2：00-4：00
地点：纽约LGBT中心310室（208 West 13th Street, New York）
中英文双语
本活动免费入场

随着经济发展和城市扩张，上海的人口和文化多元性均而不断地迅速发展。这座城市也拥有中国最积极活跃的拉拉社群。这一年轻且持续发展的群体正在不断摸索着路径和策略，寻求将中国同志社群的活动从互联网社区拓展到实体的街头政治、文化行动、社会集会、提升公众意识以及同志群体公众可见度等。这周日在LGBT中心，我们邀请到上海最主要的拉拉组织之一“上海女爱”的创始人想起，请她与我们分享女爱七年来的活动，以及她作为拉拉以及在上海的社会活动家的经验。

关于想起：
想起是中国拉拉社群最早的社会活动者之一。2002年想起建立了名为LESCN的中文拉拉网络论坛。LESCN迅速地吸引了几千名会员，并成为了中国最大的拉拉论坛之一。她还主导创立了中国大陆第一个拉拉网络广播站。2005年，想起在上海创立了“上海女爱”，这是上海最早的拉拉非政府组织。女爱不仅在当地社区中、之后还在全国串联中起到了愈渐重要的作用。近年来，女爱的行动不单局限在同志社区，更在上海的女性主义运动图景中扮演了重要角色：连续几年来女爱组织了《阴道独白》的本地化；最近女爱又引领了反对性骚扰的街头行动，这一现在被称为“网络时代的Slutwalk”的活动引发了全国广泛的关注。
自华人拉拉联盟在2008建立至今，想起被委任为并担任华人拉拉联盟的秘书长。
想起是上海同志中心的合作创始人和管理者之一。