This image conveys how heteronormative ideas are not just social, but also political and affect our ideas about kinship, justice, and proper living. A singular type of toxicity can ripple through multiple facets and scales of society.
As an anthropologist, this image could be considered a part of kinship studies and how we culturally produce normative family structures. Furthermore, these structure endure for generations. The rise in acceptance of alternative family structures and LGBTQ individuals has changed somethings slightly, but more research should be done on contemporary kinship.
This image is ethnographic in that it shows Taiwanese people in "action" so to speak. The top photo shows people who are advocating for heteronormative values and the bottom shows the results of the recent elections in Taiwan. The only think I would potentially add to the design statement is some history over LGBTQ issues or family/kinship structures in Taiwan.
Anger and sadness were my initial responses to this image. I think these emotions were evoked not only because of the subject matter, but because of my own personal connection to Taiwan, having lived there after I graduated from college.
The juxtaposition of these two images are fantastic and really serve to evoke an emotional response from the viewer. However, the bottom image is quite wordy and really difficult to read. I wonder if it is possible to cut out some questions from the image and only include the vetoed votes. Then, with the extra space, you could even add more pictures of protests which could evoke an even stronger emotional response.
This image captures the discursive dimensions of the recent referendums in Taiwan, particularly the discourses surrounding LGBTQ issues. This image is at the meta scale of analysis.
