Since 2021, authorities in dozens of localities across China have publicized cleanup campaigns against “boys’ love” books & other “materials harmful to minors’ physical & mental health.” “LGBT-themed” materials sometimes lumped in. Must place dragnet against “boys’ love” authors in this context:

I got into a pinhole camera sales group after reading about #maskpark, a voyeurism ring that involves at least 100k Chinese users on Telegram. It has compared to South Korea’s Nth Room. Here are demos of pinhole cameras on a shoe, a fan, a car key and the side of a phone:

Videos have surfaced of groups of young men beating gay men in Zhengzhou Ppl’s Park w/ punches, kicks, & rods, yelling at their victims “Are you gay?” “Do you like men?” "If you dont say, I'll beat you to death." Police have detained 17 ppl. Most media dont say "gay" in reporting (except Caixin)1/2

In light of detentions of Boy's Love genre authors, re-upping this non-exhaustive list of regs/policies targeting LGBTQ-related content in China:

so while there are specific reasons for targeting this group, this is also a consequence of building a machine of mass repression and censorship *and* an internal political atmosphere that demands 'action' by officials lest they be accused of 'formalism'

"Silkpride began as a side project when queer organizations in Mainland China, facing shutdowns, sent books overseas to our founder rather than discard them." silkpride.org/our_story. Check out Silkpride's exhibit at World Pride in DC:

Craven bootlicking by NYU www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Down with Cheeto Nero. Join a rally: Sat April 5th, National Day of Action handsoff2025.com

Protect the Constitution. Reject lawlessness and corruption. Join a rally: April 5th, National Day of Action handsoff2025.com

With moral panic-y tone, state media in China's Jiangsu province reports that parents are upset their children are seeing LGBT-related content on Duolingo. One parent frets: "This kind of content may incorrectly guide the worldviews & life perspectives of minors." weibo.com/1796087453/P...

Whereas ~10 yrs ago a Baidu search for "homosexuality" wld render ads for conversion therapy (www.globaltimes.cn/content/8737...), DeepSeek answers that conversion therapy is ineffective & harmful. Activist tells readers to feel at ease letting their parents use it mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ms2YXhszD6...

"The radical right in the US is not engaged in a grand geopolitical strategy. It is pursuing an ideological campaign against its true enemy, which is not China or Russia but liberalism. The Trump administration hates liberals at home and liberal democracies abroad." open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Scotten served three combat tours in Iraq as a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer and earned two Bronze Stars. Clerked for Roberts and Kavanaugh.

ICYMI: A transgender employee at a state-owned enterprise in China was supported by her colleagues, but "the company’s leadership later pressured her on numerous occasions to 'rectify' her gender expression" & labeled her as "selfish" and "causing trouble for others.” www.scmp.com/news/people-...

Snap out of it, America. The warning lights are flashing red. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...

People on 小红书 Rednote, pleas PLEASE send me discussions between new American visitors and Chinese citizens about Social Credit.

Hi BlueSky! We're The Rights Practice, a charity dedicated to supporting those working for human rights in Asia with a focus on China and Hong Kong. Here, we'll share updates on human rights issues in the region and individual cases as well as our new projects, briefings and upcoming events.

Chinese police in Anhui target writers of gay erotica with prison terms and heavy fines – SCMP: ‘many of those arrested had been posting stories on the Taiwanese-based fiction website Haitang Culture’

Trumpism will cede global leadership to China in multiple areas because most other countries and institutions would prefer to deal with a lawful evil system than a chaotic evil one.

"Health officials overseeing the city of Wuhan in China have been forced to stop HIV clinics from uploading results to a new digital system for test sharing after two HIV positive patients were refused hospital treatment.“ Story by @flynnmurphy.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

SCMP: Outrage as scholar asks how can #China make women ‘obediently, submissively have children’ 人大's Prof. Wang Xianju was speaking to #Kazakhstan’s Erlan Qarin, who said women in his country had free will regarding fertility www.scmp.com/news/china/p...

Highly encourage users to donate if they can. Just had a briefing from my company’s cybersecurity team and newly appreciate how Signal offers a calm port in an increasingly terrifying storm

NYC folks: Filmmaker Chen Junmi will be screening his documentary "Xiaodi" on 12/15. The film explores the life of 17-year-old transgender girl Xiaodi, delving into her personal journey & the challenges she faces while undergoing 'gender correction treatment' in China." uniondocs.org/event/xiaodi...

People are getting mad about this but you don’t want to open up the Pandora’s box of “murder is okay when I agree with the politics of doing it” when you’ve got a well-armed right wing political movement that’s growing bolder. Hell, you don’t want more Jordan Neely’s either.

"However, as of 2022, official guidelines from the National Health Commission, China’s health ministry, still reference 'transsexualism,' an outdated term dropped by the WHO in favor of 'gender incongruence.'" www.rfa.org/english/chin...

"Ling’er said she thought she had won a favorable outcome in part because the judge overseeing the negotiations had been sympathetic to her. ''Her attitude toward me was, ‘You are you, no one can change you,’' Ling’er said." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/w...

This. @chinafile.bsky.social is a treasure chest full of impressive writing and analysis. You can thank me later.

Yoon Suk Yeo has learned his lesson by Susan Collins

“South Korea’s struggle is a powerful reminder that democracy is not self-sustaining—it requires active vigilance.”

We are glad to announce that, thanks to @en.blueark.app, we’ve imported the majority of our tweets to Bluesky! Not included were RTs, replies to others, and QTs of others.

South Korean military says martial law will remain in place despite parliament’s vote to reject it. Follow our live coverage.

that Korea does this, immediately, in the face of actual soldiers trying to impose martial law - when members of our own congress voted for a coup hours after the J6 mob stormed congress, and the coup instigator won the next election - is about as scathing an indictment of America as I’ve ever seen

Excellent new research on LGBTQ+ student activism in China from my PhD student Jing Huang. Jing’s work here makes an important intervention in the field and views student activism in the context of authoritarianism through the lens of social movement theory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Far from the only one. People are sometimes surprised to hear me say it’s easier these days to be a foreign journalist in China than three or five years ago. But it is. Though people here are nervous about speaking to us, the hostility is gone.

Meet Alex Zhu, a former "little pink" whose journey from a staunch party supporter to an outspoken critic reflects what many young Chinese have experienced in recent years. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

With PRC censors deleting scenes of same-sex intimacy from Arcane season 2 (fictionhorizon.com/china-has-su...), thought I'd share this non-exhaustive list of regs/policies targeting LGBTQ-related content in China (h/t to @w-ch.bsky.social for Arcane-related updates): www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

“Today’s verdict is a grave injustice not only to Yuyu and his family but also to every freethinking Chinese journalist and every ordinary Chinese committed to friendly engagement with the world” -family statement www.bbc.com/news/article...

Chinasky taking off. Graph shows daily sum of posts containing China/Taiwan/Hong Kong-related keywords from June 1st to yesterday. Peak was three days ago.

Mao: "Who are our friends? Who are our enemies? This is the central question of the revolution." foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/27/t...

虽然….唉 能获赔还不错 所以真的就是要保护trans因为不保护他们的话 他们太过于容易遭害了 明明就占人口那么一点点比例所以为什么都不愿意保护呢 很多人一辈子日常生活里遇不到一位trans 就这样好像还觉得保护trans伤害到他们多大的权益了似的

A trans woman won a 60K¥ settlement from a mental hospital in China that had subjected her to electroshocks to change her gender identity. Activist Chen Junmi says the case shows the trans community that law can help protect their rights & push hospitals to change. 1/2 www.rfa.org/mandarin/yat...

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike. I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it. Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia