My current book project, provisionally titled "Different Women: An Ethnography of Sexuality, Kinship, and Cultural Politics in Postsocialist Beijing" is a critical anthropological analysis of women’s same-sex sexuality and the increasing possibilities to define, declare, and live alternative gendered and sexual lives in urban China. I develop an intersectional analytical approach to the study of sexuality, demonstrating how same-sex sexual subjectivity is co-constituted by other markers of difference, in particular gender, socio-economic background (class), age/generation, and the relative symbolic and material access to means for upward mobility. This approach retains the thick, lived experiences of everyday life and imaginaries of ideal futures alike. Whilst much work on sex and sexuality tends to emphasize either symbolic or material approaches at the expense of the other, I demonstrate the possibilities and gains of retaining them both in productive, generative tension and dynamics.