Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025 A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures

✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

“Everyones always like deleuze this and Foucault that… RAWR!!!! Im emo XD”

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Using my starter pack to recommend Australian Media & Communication scholars.

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ur so right bestie 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ vocaloids are such amazing canvases !!

it’s ok,,, we still have the white monster 😔

MIKU EXPO 2024 AUS Sydney banner at the ICC

MIKU EXPO 2024 AUS Sydney ending with all four live band members bowing to the audience

#MIKUEXPO2024 SYD was absolutely unforgettable!! 🩵✨ Vocaloids aren’t just digital pop stars – they’re the perfect example of how media, technology, and fan culture merge to redefine entertainment and virtual artistry.

Research-related yappery aside, tonight was pure healing for my inner child. 🥺💗

Hi everyone!

We are a new research initiative at the University of Melbourne interested in games, play and interactive entertainment.

We have put together an starter pack of people involved in MAGPIE - feel free to share, and if you're involved and want to be added let us know! go.bsky.app/CimEnwF

Are you interested in the stories we tell with, about, and around videogames? A brilliant group of scholars, creators, teachers, and critics right here. Please repost and spread the word!
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hi friends! i’m an aspiring academic and media enthusiast with a lifelong passion for east asian pop culture (animation, comics, games, music etc.)

just completed my honours thesis on vtubers and gender identity (working on publishing). maybe a phd is next – all advice is appreciated! :3c

Online games should not be included in Australia’s social media ban – they are critical for kids’ social lives Australia is set to ban kids under 16 from social media. Depending on the definition, online games with social features could be in the firing line – which would be detrimental.

Is the government about to accidentally ban kids under 16 from games? I wrote a piece with @darthtayrah.bsky.social on why they shouldn't.

theconversation.com/online-games...

(they also shouldn't ban social media!)