《艾love女人》現已發售

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《艾love女人》現已發售
一睇妳就知　香港邊度都有女同志

《艾love女人》是香港第一本有關愛女人的女人及女同志的口述歷史書籍，策劃四年，於今年的香港書展上正式出版。全書由17個愛女人的故事交織而成，重整本地不同年代愛上女人的女人的生活經驗。

走進17位17-58歲的本土女同志及愛女人的女人們的真實國度，由圈內「風土人情」、蒲吧、情慾、到朋友家人、同志運動等，與本港歷史環環緊扣。她們就住在你的對面、或坐在你同事的右方；她是十多歲的學生、或六十歲的退休人士；她是社工、大學教授、是送外賣的；她是已婚的、離婚的、單身的、或同居的。

《艾love女人》隨書附送「新篇初階同語迷你學習詞典」書籤，讓你更了解愛女人的女人的故事。

特價：$65(原價：$78)
查詢：香港女同盟會(8103 0701)
《艾love女人》網址: http://www.wchk.org/wlw

Take a look at this list:
A teenage student.
A retired employee.
A social worker.
A professor.
A takeaway gal.

A woman who is married.
A woman who is divorced.
A woman who is single.
A woman who is living together with her partner.

A woman who lives opposite your apartment.
A woman who sits next to you in the office.

They are just ordinary people living around you, in a day-to-day manner.
But there is a bound that tie them up.

That they are women who fall in love with women.


As the phase II of the oral history project, I love women is the first book on the oral history of women loving women & lesbians published in Hong Kong. Planned and carried out over 4 years, this project presents stories of 17 women who are passionate about women and reconstructs their living experiences across different decades. It is the sequel of the booklet Her Stories《她們的女情印記》.

Once you open up the book, you are immediately drawn into the authentic boundaries of these women aged across 17 to 58. This intriguing journey takes you from individual aspects like in-group practices, clubbing, love and lust to social topics like friends, family and local Tong Zhi (meaning LGBT in Chinese) movement. Their anecdotes are intertwined with the history of Hong Kong and their voices should be heard within the context.

Voices which have long been buried, covered, muffled, and hidden.

Mute.


The Right to Speak
The well-known History of Hong Kong tells you the glamorous legend of how a small fishing village transformed into an international financial hub. What about the gentle footprints that were left in the factory, public housing estate, or herbal tea shop? Our lives are not completed if History is selectively reconstructed and partially presented through the lens of power and authority. Who can make such decision, of what to be remembered or forgotten? If voices are so precious then we have to preserve them and pay them forward.


The Origin of the project
Originated in July 2004, this project is one of the founding projects that urged the formation of WCHK. Using four years time, we tried to uncover voices which have long been unheard. With limited time and resources, we started the oral history project, in the hope of rescuing these individual anecdotes, which are powerful evidences of the living experience of 17 women engaged in diversified relationships, involving women, TB, TBG and gender non conforming people. It is not merely about love and lust. It is a revolutionary carnival that confronts different social systems.

The presentation of private memoirs are bolts of lightning that strike across the public sphere, showing vivid images of local history like elite girls’ schools, gay bars or local lesbian websites, constructing a unique living space for these women. Walking into their stories, you might even find glimpses of yourself there.


The challenges and difficulties
Although some of our informants are brave enough to narrate their lives, they cannot use their own images but only fragments like hands and feet due to social and family pressure. Unlike other oral history projects, in addition to tackle the issue of lack of money and resources, we have to confront the attack by the Moral Taliban.

Since the Elm Bookshop incident in 2005, The Society For Truth And Light, Hong Kong Sex Culture Society, Hong Kong Alliance for Family, and Evangelical Free Church of China have contorted, decontextualized and slandered the booklet Her Stories《她們的女情印記》(phase I of the oral history project) as pornography through their websites, publications and a joint-pronouncement in Ming Pao, a broadsheet in Hong Kong. Such acts explicitly ignored an educational project funded by the Home Affair Bureau for promoting equal opportunities. Through hypocritical means they marginalized and degraded sexual minorities as trivial, disgracing a serious academic research project.

We sincerely hope that this book can reestablished a disregarded discourse of different views from the society.

This successful publication of this book relies on many helps and contributions from… them.

Website: http://www.wchk.org/wlw
Enquires: 8103 0701 (Women Coalition of HKSAR)