Alison Xinyi Guo
Discipline: Education
Alison (pronouns she/her) is a doctoral student in Education at Western Sydney University. Her PhD thesis focuses on the experiences of Chinese parents who have a gay or lesbian adult child. In her thesis, she explored these parents’ real voices and sought to understand how their perspectives towards their child’s same-sex attraction are shaped or influenced by their culture through a Foucauldian lens. Through the process, her study highlighted the agency and resilience of these parents as well as their same-sex attracted adult children, providing information about how some of them move from an initial negative reaction to their child’s coming out, to a greater understanding and in some instances, a more supportive attitude. Alison is particularly interested in how the intersectionality of different identities impacts individuals' experiences and endeavours to promote the rights and voices of LGBTQ+ people with a Chinese or broad Asian ethnic background in her future research.
Alison can be contacted at xyguo94@gmail.com
