'I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT films’: An Interview with He Xiaopei

Despite decriminalization in 1997 and partial pathologization in 2001, homosexuality remains a sensitive topic in contemporary China. This is reflected in mainstream and online media where representation of LGBTQ-related issues are often subject to heavy censorship. However, despite the austere restrictions that exist, the past two decades have witnessed the emergence of “‘new queer Chinese cinema”’ (Leung 2012; Yue 2012; Pecic 2016; Bao 2018). Led by a number of young independent queer filmmakers along with advancements in new media technologies, this underground movement of queer filmmaking have has created new possibilities for imagining sexuality and gender as well as opportunities for community -building.He Xiaopei is a leading queer feminist filmmaker, activist, and director of Beijing-based NGO Pink Space, an NGO dedicated to promoting sexual rights and gender equality. Her films include The Lucky One (Chong’er, 2012), Our Marriages: Lesbians Marry Gay Men (Yisheng qiyuan, 2013), Yvo and Chrissy (Ruci Shenghuo, 2017) and Playmates (Wanban, 2019). The Lucky One tells the story of Zhang Xi, a HIV- positive woman with only a short time to live. A kind of video diary of Zhang’s life, the film questions notions of fact and fiction, as well as the politics of representation when working with marginalized people. Our Marriages: Lesbians Marry Gay Men explores how two lesbian couples in Northeast China negotiate norms and expectations around marriage, and the possibilities for queer life in Chinese society. Yvo and Chrissy follows the lives of two people from England who gave up an inheritance of one million pounds as well as several properties, and reflects on questions of wealth, gender, sexuality, and happiness. He’s work to date has demonstrated a distinctly antinormative approach to gender and sexuality, while also highlighting some of the less discussed issues of class, precarity, and marginality in China and elsewhere.In February 2017, Séagh Kehoe, PhD candidate from the University of Nottingham, spoke with He about her work and the place of documentary filmmaking in queer activism in China today

Ultrastructure of spermatozoa of Bullacta exarata (philippi) and its significance on reproductive evolution and physio-ecological adaptation

The morphology and ultrastructure of Bullacta exarata spermatozoa observed by light and transmission electron microscopy are presented in this paper. The spermatozoon is composed of head with a simple acrosomal complex and an elongated nucleus, and tail with a midpiece, principal piece and an end piece. The midpiece consists of a mitochondrial ring, and the principal piece is composed of axoneme and lateral fin. The structure of B. exarata spermatozoa differs significantly from that of other gastropods, especially in the lateral fin and the principal piece, which was described scarcely before. A comparison is made between B. exarata and other gastropods, and its significance on reproductive evolution and physio-ecological adaptation is preliminarily discussed

Conductance and phase transition of freestanding ZnO nanocrystals under high pressure

10.1179/026708303225003081Materials Science and Technology197981-984MSCT

Long-term self-renewing human epicardial cells generated from pluripotent stem cells under defined xeno-free conditions

Therapeutic cell differentiatio