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Ting-Sian started their LSE ESRC-funded PhD at the LSE Department of Gender Studies in 2023. Ting-Sian’s research examines the coloniality of rights politics and activism through centring the lifeworld of Indigenous queer people and queer Indigenous activism in Taiwan. Their thesis, “Entangled Temporalities, Plural Possibilities: Queer Indigenous Futurity and non-Indigenous Decolonial Solidarities in Taiwan,” examine the relationship between queer temporality, decolonial solidarities and Indigenous futurity in settler-colonial, post-authoritarian Taiwan. Ting-Sian’s PhD dissertation received support from Taiwan’s Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (2024-2026).
Ting-Sian holds an MA in Gender Studies from SOAS, University of London and a BA in Anthropology from National Taiwan University.
Key Expertise: Decolonial and Indigenous Studies; Queer Theory; LGBT Rights; Race and Ethnicity
Supervisory Team: Dr SM Rodriguez, Dr Sharmila Parmanand and Dr Sadie Wearing.