Is the Western-origin term “queerbaiting” a fair way to judge Thai BL and GL series? What if, instead, we look at them through the lens of a “queer fantasy economy”? 🏳️‍🌈 Full text: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #ThaiBL #ThaiGL #Yseries #SeriesY #Queerbaiting @evacyli.bsky.social

✨Very happy to see my interview on the global rise of Thai Girl Love featured on BBC Global Women — and with my new affiliation included 🏳️‍🌈👩‍❤️‍👩 #GL #GirlsLove #ThaiGL www.instagram.com/p/DTxkno-lwfa/

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

The UK regulator Ofcom turns UK impartiality rules upside down - allowing GBNews presenters to escape restrictions by claiming ti be "current affairs" not news. bjr.org.uk/ofcom-is-now...

✨Just out: Learning from Different Approaches to Gender Nonconformity — a convo with Jass Thethi & Rudy Loewe on decolonial, defiant ways of researching gender. Huge thanks to @krheyam.bsky.social and Jonathan Ward for the invitation. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Open access link in the comments. #queerstudies #LGBTStudies

Honoured to be interviewed by PTS Taiwan (公共電視) 🇹🇼— in what’s likely the first journalistic TV feature outside of Thailand on the rise of Thai #GirlsLove dramas and their transnational queer significance. 🌏🌈 🔗 youtu.be/gBYN4Ghq82k?... #GL #LGBT #QueerTV

🌈 Happy Pride! I wrote a piece for The Conversation on one of my favourite queer films: Saving Face (2004) by Alice Wu 🎬 It’s such a heartfelt, underrated gem in LGBTQ+ cinema. theconversation.com/hidden-gems-... #SavingFace #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #AsianCinema #QueerAsian

Tomorrow, June 4th, 36 years after the Tiananmen massacre, we will be hosting Jeff Wasserstrom to discuss his new book, The Milk Tea Alliance (Columbia Global Reports). forms.gle/Hao6sc1kX8fg... @jwassers.bsky.social @jmulich.bsky.social @wpsa.bsky.social ‪@mtacalendar.bsky.social‬

Friends in London, I’ll be talking about Thai Girls Love media on 7 June, as part of Formosa Salon 倫敦講臺’s Pride Month event! 👭🏻🇹🇭🏳️‍🌈The talk will be in Mandarin Chinese. Secure your place at this link and hope to see you there! 🔗 formosasalon.org.uk/post/queer-m... #GL #GirlsLove #Yuri #QueerAsia

Getting ready for the Queer Sinophone Studies & the Question of Geopolitics Symposium at Academia Sinica! 🎤📚 Countdown begins—just two weeks to go! 🗓️✨ #QueerStudies #Geopolitics

Digital colonialism: 'US tech monopolies...have embedded themselves into South African society'. E.g. Operation Phakisa, 'designed to equip public schools with digital tools but, in reality, hands over the country’s educational data sovereignty to US corporations. lab.cccb.org/en/counterin...

Thank you to The Chinese University of Hong Kong for hosting me yesterday. I very much enjoyed engaging with colleagues and students on AI's societal implications through fandom studies and exploring how the humanities & social sciences can contribute to research in AI ethics and governance.

I’m giving a talk today at Lingnan University on how AI is shaping the future of fandom. Really looking forward to the discussion! ☺️

Our research on Thai GL is featured in Bangkok post! ☺️

✨Honoured to contribute to this timely volume edited by @krheyam.bsky.social & Jon Ward! I reflect on my experiences researching zhongxing (the middle gender) in Sinophone Asia, exploring how geopolitics shaped gender/sex knowledge. Now available for pre-order🛒 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...

We discussed the global popularity of #Thai Girls Love #GL series and why this matters. Thai GL celebrates joy and thriving queer relationships 🌈💖, in contrast to Hollywood's #BuryYourGays trope @kwpang.bsky.social #EngLot #FayeYoko #FreenBecky #LingOrm theconversation.com/how-thailand...

Excited to start my sabbatical travel in Asia with a talk at CUHK on "When Fans Meet AI: A Feminist Ethics of Care" next month, on 12 March. See you in Hong Kong! 🎤✨ #AI #DigitalCulture #FeministEthics

Happy New Year! ✨🎉 I’m starting my 2025 with a slice of Hong Kong history every day.

As 2024 draws to a close, I'm very pleased to see this piece, joint first authorship with Wen Liu, published. We propose the #geopolitics of queer archives to trace queer knowledge and activism connecting HK and TW, often overlooked under the shadow of the "greater China" framework. 🧵

We were told that the lecture hall at the University of Florence was previously a church. Thus, @evacyli.bsky.social and I did present our paper under the Heavenly One.

Students in my MA fandom module highlighted "how to be ethical fans" as a major challenge in today's mediascape. I'm pleased to hear this, and we must keep engaging in these discussions! 😇

Good news that our #GirlsLove paper is now published online. It's the first academic journal in English that explores the recent #GL boom in Thailand, queer media from the Global South!🏳️‍🌈 It's Open Access so it's free to read ✨https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2024.2433564

First post here: Our article, '#Queer Media from the Global South: The Emerging Girls Love (#GL) Industry of Southeast Asia,' has been accepted for publication in Spring 2025✨ It'll be the first academic journal article to investigate the recent boom in GL production in SE Asia🏳️‍🌈 @kwpang.bsky.social