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Examines the career and message paintings of the feminist conceptual artist Jiny Lan, analyzing a cross-section of works that invite literary, historical, socio-political and transcultural interpretations. Jiny Lan is an avant-garde Chinese artist based in Germany. A founding member of the feminist art collective \"Bald Girls,\" she infuses astute, politically charged, and iconoclastic criticism into her conceptual and visual art. Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion provides a hermeneutic and critical analysis of Lan's idiosyncratic, provocative, and ingenious artwork. \"Subversion\" refers not only to her political and cultural subversiveness but also to her iterative technique of reproduction and repainting, which she uses to create a series of genealogically related \"sub-versions\" of her own paintings. As an émigré and immigrant artist, Lan is profoundly influenced by both eastern and western cultures and traditions. Her immersive experience and extensive knowledge of two contrasting national histories, cultures, and political systems endows her with a unique intersectional positionality. Her artwork is at once figurative and abstract, realistic and fantastic, chaotic and logical, appropriative and creative. It interrogates serious issues such as censorship, authoritarianism, democracy, human rights, sexism, racism, war, migration, and Covid-19, but in a dynamic and often humorous manner. This book lays a foundation for evaluating Lan as an artist whose work invites discussions about portraiture, power, temporality, space, corporality, and sex. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

In line with questions raised in decolonial feminist research, this article examines the extent to which methodology can transform asymmetrical relationships with respect to age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, and class between researchers and participants. The analysis is based on field notes from interviews conducted in a participatory research project on the intersectional discrimination experienced by LGBTIQ+ individuals with a migration background in Switzerland. Results show how the articulation of a participatory approach, intersectional reflexivity, and sociological empathy is crucial when conducting research with multiply minoritized people on sensitive topics. Interviews require researchers to reflect on their positionality. Each research encounter involves multiple positionalities based on the diverse, fluid identities that researchers and participants identify with and attribute to each other. Interviews also require that researchers build safety and trust so that participants can experience empathy. Challenges and difficulties in some types of interviews, as with multiply marginalized people or interpreter assistance, clearly show how building safety and trust through intersectional reflexivity and sociological empathy is an ongoing process that requires constant critique and improvement. Our findings support the epistemological position that research teams should include more people directly concerned by the issues under study. They also call for a paradigm shift in academia—one that research funders must actively support.

This article explores the challenges and complexities of a cross cultural PhD student conducting research in West Africa. I discuss how I navigated, negotiated and blurred my insider/outsider experiences as a Congolese-American woman as I engaged with themes oscillating between power, legitimacy, language, gender, and my decolonial and social justice commitments. Reflexive research on Africans studying a secondary non-native African country is seldom discussed or researched. As such, I utilised an intersectional transnegritude theoretical framework to centre and complicate the shared transcolonial struggles and neocolonial realities of myself and my participants. I conclude by positing that, despite the challenges of doing transnational work, reflexively recognising our positionality lends to a liberatory and critical transnational exchange that encourages new approaches to knowledge production for social justice. This article contributes to ongoing discussions of insider/outsider research, positionality, decolonising research, and comparative case study to articulate and dearticulate power dynamics in neocolonial contexts.