Gina Anne Tam

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I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Yall are really making me regret staying at the fairmont before I even get there

NPC 2026: China to Enshrine Xi-Era Ethnic Policy in New Law China's new assimilationist ethnic policy mandates forging a common Han-centric Chinese culture and identity, while muting minority identity expression.

Once passed, this law will finalize the collapsing of many ethnic identities in China that I write about in my book, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom npcobserver.com/2026/03/05/c...

*taps sign* China is a real place with actual people and policies, not somewhere for you to project your feelings about the United States onto.

Can never laugh at foot binding but also this made me guffaw 😆

Taking a short break from my regular dire posts (my areas of expertise/interest are Chinese ethnic politics, UK migration policy and UK academia, there's just so much dire), as I am about to take off for the Association of Asian Studies conference in Vancouver and I am really very excited.

Aside from this being really depressing, I could see easily how this would get filtered into research on Uyghurs being considered "DEI" (and then I become angry all over again at all the right-wingers who pretended to care about them only when it was convenient)

🙋‍♀️ See you in Vancouver!

so who else is going to #aas2026?

Its just...always about gender. Their masculinity is so fragile.

Maybe because I have so little respect for how they did all of this, and believe their arrogance and grandiose thinking belies a laughable faith in their AI answers, I think they thought they were getting real answers

This to me is the most interesting—that research on Uyghurs is now considered DEI (but not another oppressed group, Mongols in China). Learned Islamophobia or just nonsensical maybe?

6/x Regarding *ethnic* minorities: Uyghurs in China (no. 99) = DEI, but Mongols in China (no. 914) ≠ DEI, even though both are indigenous to their respective homelands

Excellent thread on what counts as “DEI” in Asian studies research—revealing and full of contradictions

Excited to be heading to Vancouver in a couple days for #AAS2026! Hope all who read this find me to say hello (or check out the two cool panels I have the honor of being on!)

Hong Kong woman faces 2019 protest charges after returning from Australia Ami Chan Hui-ching, charged with possessing laser pointers and spray paint for illegal use in anti-government protests, released on HK$10,000 bail.

A Hong Kong woman who returned from Australia has been charged with carrying two laser pointers and three bottles of spray paint for illegal purposes during the 2019 anti-government protests.

Ami Chan Hui-ching, 21, was escorted to Eastern Court on Monday.

No it’s not good but it’s fine for daily driving and also it is an extremely fun car to drive. Even my toddler every time we get in she goes “oooooooo”

Just…don’t ask me it’s battery range and/or how long it takes to charge

Counterpoint: my Mustang Mach-e looks very cool and goes very fast 😎😎😎

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

It does not escape me that this illustrates the Trump/GOP/neo-Nazi apparatus working precisely as China is assumed to work.

It’s a little more complicated in China, and it’s a little more complicated here—but the distinction used to be obvious and, if this pattern holds, that is no longer true.

Y'all blew up an elementary girls school.

Need people to stop being weird about Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu. And also to understand what an athlete representing China can and cannot do, versus what an athlete representing US - for now - can and cannot do.

hello bsky, new person to follow! On #japan and beyond.

4/ I’ve started a second project on “An Extractivist History of the Nintendo Game Boy.” It explores the environmental costs of abstracting nature into digital worlds, linking the electronics industry in postwar Japan to intensive mining and drilling practices at home and abroad.

3/ ”Territorial Natures” argues that the fraught and urgent question of autonomous regions in the People’s Republic of China originate not only from Soviet internationalism, but also from Japanese fascism, which cultivated rural landscapes as authentic markers of ethnic identity in Inner Mongolia.