There she attended the prestigious Taipei First Girls’ High School followed by the National Taiwan University, where she graduated with a major in psychology. Qiu Miaojin was born on May 29th, 1969 in Changhua County, the most populous county in western Taiwan. For most, it takes a lifetime to build a legacy of work to be remembered by, but Qiu Miaojin was able to accomplish just that by her mid-twenties, and is a name that is still being brought up again and again as a trailblazer and an essential contributor to the queer canon of the Far East. In just a few years and with only a handful of short stories and brief writings under her belt, Qiu Miaojin went from being an educated schoolgirl doing freelance journalism to a Taiwanese household name as one of her country’s most famous and celebrated LGBT figureheads, countercultural voices and innovative authors.
I love my own kind–womankind.” – Qiu Miaojin Content warning for suicide mention, outing
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