Sinning in Sin(gapore) city : queer and Christian identities, juxtaposed

• Main Authors: Ching, Isaac Xiang Guo, Kwek, Jian Min, Khoo, Gabriel Wei Jie
• Other Authors: Han Sam
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73671
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper aims to examine the processual exertions that Queer Christian women in Singapore undertook in negotiating their (ostensibly) conflicting sexual and religious identities. Information was gathered from 15 individuals through informal semi-structured qualitative interviews, where they shared in-depth details regarding their everyday lives. Upon analysis, it was found that all of our interviewees, at some point in their lives, encountered internal struggles due to the “intolerability” of Queerness within Christianity, thus causing disruption to their sense of social stability. Rather than staying in this conflicted state, they sought resolution through an instauration of their bodies to remain authentic. As such, this paper also discussed the various agencies of authenticity that interviewees adopted to reconcile their (arguably) dual identities. However, despite their creative attempts at conciliation, these Queer Christian women, perhaps, unknowingly perpetuate a certain homonormativity, emplacing them within the boundaries of a heteronormative-inspired doxa.