Mr Jona Barabas

Biography

Jona is a full-time PhD student in Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. A native of northern Scandinavia, he has recently relocated to Hong Kong after spending the past five years shuttling back and forth between scholarly endeavors in Taiwan and Sweden.

Being a relative newcomer to the realm of Sociology, Jona holds previous degrees in Chinese Studies and Educational Science. Writing his master’s thesis about Chinese queer fiction inspired Jona to venture into research about the non-fictional world. Subsequent volunteering at a support-organization for LGBTQ+ individuals in Taipei resulted in his current ambition to document the experiences of gender variant people navigating family life in Taiwan.