{"id":6196,"date":"2016-05-13T18:34:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T09:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2016-05-17T17:51:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T08:51:50","slug":"yang-kang-spse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/news\/2016\/05\/13\/6196\/","title":{"rendered":"Yang Kang, SPSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daily Revolution<\/p>\n

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My name is Yang Kang. I\u2019m a cis-gender gay man who currently studying in the School of Political Science and Economics, majoring Political science. I am a feminist, and I am active in human right movements and LGBTI+ equality campaigns.<\/p>\n

I want to write about the concept of \u201ccoming out\u201d. As you may know, coming out means make one\u2019s sexual orientation and\/or identity overt. But coming out is not simply an instantaneous action, and the complexity of it might be beyond common supposition.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m always open with my sexual orientation with my friends since I identified myself as gay in my middle school.
\nBeing in a harmonious relationship with my family, I thought that my family would accept me with love and understanding when I decided to end this years-old concealment. However, when I came out to my family in September 2014, I was thrown out of the house, and had only 8,000 NTD (about 27,000 Yen) with me. Unable to pay the tuition, I had no choice but to drop out of college and get several part-time jobs: interpreter, translator, and clerk of stationery store. I signed a one year rental contract for a room with no stable hot water in a little township called Qidu.<\/p>\n

In that year, I got disowned by my family, had to work throughout the night, and have to survive only with gallons of sugared water. But I regard that year in that humid crappy town, is the most important period of time in my life. I chose to honestly handle myself and my life. I decided that I am not going back to my original university and continue the learning of electrical engineering that I had absolutely no interest, and go somewhere preferable to study something I am interested in, and I met someone that truly understand and cherish me as a whole.<\/p>\n

The most important lesson that I learned in that year is that, coming out is not just a instantaneous action. Once you come out, there\u2019s no going back. In the society where LGBTI+ community still remains a minority and left vulnerable, we have to continuously manifest ourselves over and over again.<\/p>\n

Revolution is a drastic social alternation that is done by the people. Hannah Arendt regarded human is \u201cpolitical animal\u201d: human are the only animal that is able to labor, to work, and to produce action. Therefore, I pledge our allies and those LGBTI+ that are able to safely perform expression: try.<\/p>\n

Try to spread egalitarianism in your daily life, transform your state of self-recognition into the thrust for political action.<\/p>\n

Revolute. Act. Spread the ideas, and try to achieve a safe, equal, and free society.<\/p>\n

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Yang Kang<\/p>\n

SPSE<\/p>\n

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