#SilkRoadQueerAlliance #SRQA #AsianHistory #China #QueerAsia #HanDynasty #LGBTQHistory #QueerCulture #EastAsia #WoodblockArt
📜 Chen Hongshou (1599–1652), woodblock illustration, Ming dynasty. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed April 4, 2026.
the concept of my Asian queer ocs 🥰🌸
I like the idea of writing about bi girly who prefers dating women. I think society is oversaturated with portraying bi girls who prefer men, but not the other way around. 🥲
#queerasian #queerasia #queeeasians #queerocs #bi #lesbian #queerart #queercharcaters
LGBT Politics: Asian Perspectives
A groundbreaking regional study of gender & sexual minorities across Asia—exploring local identities, politics, and resistance in the face of globalization and Western influence.
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🌈 Hong Kong’s largest annual LGBTQ carnival cancelled after host venue backs out 🇭🇰
West Kowloon backs out as venue with no reason given. Organisers say: "Deeply disappointed, but we’ll be back."
More at whereis.gay/hong-kon...
#PinkDotHK #LGBTQ #HongKong #QueerAsia #Pride
What makes queer studies in #Indonesia distinct? Hendri Yulius Wijaya offers internationalist localism as a method—bridging global & local knowledge while spotlighting precarity and resistance beyond institutions. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Can queer language challenge both colonial pasts & neoliberal presents? Kaustav Bakshi explores how India’s #hijra/ #kothi lexicon & radical poetic forms unsettle global sexual identity norms. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia
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What happens when queerness is tied to entrepreneurial success? Ling Tang’s burnout queerness shows how queer female entrepreneurs in urban China navigate unstable homonormativity under post-socialist neoliberalism. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What are we really doing when we say Queer Asia as Method? Song Hwee Lim critiques celebratory discourses of Asia & calls for deeper reflection on theory, bias, and the stakes of queering knowledge. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What if we read Mr. Robot & Uterus Man through a queer techno-Asian lens? @ianliujiatian.bsky.social proposes queer techno-orientalism as method to imagine reparative tech futures for Chinese queer/trans bodies. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia #TechnoOrientalism
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Also check out our first author interview with Chiang about his 2019 work, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China
Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3Cl
#TransHistory #SinophoneStudies #HowardChiang #LGBTQHistory #QueerAsia #Pride2025
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
"Hind found a pleasure [with Al-Zarqa’] … and their amorous desire for each other increased, and it had never been so between women before this."
- Ali ibn Nasr, ‘The Encyclopedia of Pleasure’, 10th century Baghdad
#queerhistory #queerasia
Colour photograph of two Chinese women in their 80s or 90s. Both are wearing black tops, and have short hair.
This is Liang Jieyun and Huang Li-e, two 'self-combed women', participants in a southern Chinese practice where women would declare their independence through a solo marriage ceremony. These women often formed all-female communities called Golden Orchid Societies.
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