Q:Can you tell us a little bit about what you’re currently doing?
My main business is an engineer, and then I am a side business to engage in some women’s rights offline activities, women’s rights talk shows, yes, many people think that he is a performance art, that is, the main thing is this, and may also engage in some other offline activities, that is, feminist theory and the like, that is, let some people who have already found a job in the UK share how he got his first job in the UK, and then our activity is that cisgender men are not allowed to come in. I just want to have such a female space to connect with each other, not a female connection dominated by sexual relationships.
Q:I would like to ask what was the motivation or reason for starting this?
It’s a long story, that is, maybe 2022 is a very important year, it’s a series of things, and then I find that maybe doing some things has repercussions, and it can change some things, and then I went to some book clubs in 2023, and before 2022, I was my first job, and I didn’t change jobs, it was October in 2022, which was still a very important month, and then it was uh, I went to a company that was relatively idle, and yes, Then at the beginning of 2023, I participated in some activities of the Chinese community here in London, and then met some intellectuals, and then I also saw those on Instagram, that is, there is a feminist account, and it has some videos about feminist talk shows, and then I discussed it with a few friends, and I started to do it.
Q:What kind of concept does it seem like feminism or feminism to you?
I think feminism is probably a gender perspective, and you can become very sensitive to a lot of things. Before understanding and contacting feminist theories, you may only get angry and then be aggrieved, and you don’t know where these emotions come from, but after feminism comes into contact with feminist theories, you will know that you will provide you with theoretical contact solutions to explain some phenomena, and why you are angry, that is, the rationality of your anger, which provides rationality for my anger.
Q:Are there any specific examples?
For example, let’s talk about sexual harassment, sexual harassment is not generally about women wearing short skirts or something, and we have some places where men don’t feel safe going out at night, but women don’t feel safe.
Q:Because my project is about Nüshu, have you heard of Nüshu before?
I’ve heard of it,Well,But I don’t know how to write,I don’t recognize it,I think this is probably the only way to be able to use it.
Q:Do you think Nüshu has any relevance to modern feminism, or anything else you’ve learned?
For example, in China, there are no women on the Standing Committee of the Central Political Bureau, girls are excluded, and then I am an engineer, and there are no women on the construction site, and there are all men on the construction sites abroad, and they have been talking about equality between men and women for several years, and then you can indeed see those women in the office after designing, but I found that they are women in their forties and fifties, whether in the workplace, on the street, or in the talk show places I run, women in their forties and fifties have disappeared, and I don’t understand where they have gone.
In fact, the feminist open mic is the home of the young people born after 2000, and you will find young people everywhere, I think now not only women are excluded on many occasions, especially this middle-aged woman will be excluded.
There are also people who are 60 to 70 years old who have retired, and then they appear again, and you see the square dancers, all of them are retired people, and the people in their forties and fifties, are they the most exploited?
It stands to reason that men in their forties and fifties have a lot of resources in society, but women in their forties and fifties should also have some resources, so I hope that there will be a space for women who can connect people of different ages.
And then I wanted to have a debate about whether sex work is work, but I couldn’t find the other side, and everyone thought that sex work was work, because I was probably surrounded by feminists, and we first acknowledged that it was work, and that it was work, even though it was exploited badly, but it was work, and then I wanted to change the debate to whether sex work could be demanded.
But there’s a problem, and that is that our group of people who have gone to higher education, who haven’t been sex workers, talk about sex work, and while we could all be sex workers, it’s a sad fact. But if you let the sex workers come to a public place, and you let her expose herself as a sex worker, I think the society is still very discriminatory against them, and it is also a kind of violence against them, so I think it is very difficult.
And I want to do a job search forum, but I don’t want to get into that utilitarian, economic narrative, I want to find a smuggler, but I can’t find it, and then my friend says you’re not from that class, I may really not be able to get in touch, or even if I do, I can’t avoid that I’m going to have a kind of condescending attitude.
So for Nüshu, you may only be able to connect to the same class as you if you were going to do it.
But I think the most important thing is to create all kinds of women’s spaces, which can have a butterfly effect, no matter how small it is, and no matter how big you do it, of course, if you can do it.
I also think that we are in a huge commercial society, and if a thing wants to be widely disseminated, it may inevitably have to be commercialized, and even I think that many original things may inevitably be transformed in the process of its development.
Q:If it were you or personally, what would you like to convey with Nüshu? If it’s possible, or will it be combined with work, or something?
Even if I have to learn Nüshu first, it’s also a threshold, and I have to learn it first, that is, if it’s just as a symbol, I’ve seen some girls use it to write on placards, write slogans like freedom.
So I think you say that there is a threshold for this thing, but if you participate in the event as a woman, everyone writes together, like writing calligraphy, it should be quite interesting, it can be a tool to connect all kinds of women together, and then make this thing not disappear, because it has a certain feminist meaning in it, I think this is quite meaningful.
But I do that offline event, I found that you have to make things fun so that people will come, I once tried to do an offline women’s self-defense thing, and no one came, I think I think it’s either fun, or it’s really useful.
So the offline activities I did sold out every time, and one was a women’s rights talk show. It’s that although everyone is an amateur, it’s really interesting, and then there’s a job search symposium, because everyone wants to find friends, they really want to stay and stay abroad, so you either use it well, or make it interesting, and everyone will come to offline activities, that is, it doesn’t just look meaningful, it is to attract people to come, and I think the most important thing is to create a women’s space, connect with everyone, connect with people. It probably means a little more, I think.