Eva C.Y. Li

New article out in Feminist Review 📢 When queer characters are written off screen, fans often mobilise rather than move on. I argue these practices are queer mnemonic labour—collective efforts to contest erasure and imagine queer futures 🏳️‍🌈 #OpenAccess at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

BBC Global Women on Instagram: "“People started calling for a series with a female-female main couple.”⁣ ⁣ 👭🩷 A new wave of television dramas is sweeping the world. ⁣ ⁣ Known as Thai Girls’ Love, or... 133 likes, 3 comments - bbcglobalwomen on January 21, 2026: "“People started calling for a series with a female-female main couple.”⁣ ⁣ 👭🩷 A new wave of television dramas is sweeping the world. ⁣ ⁣ ...

✨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/

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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...

🔗Open access at www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

✨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

泰國百合劇席捲亞洲 掀起多元性別文化新浪潮｜泰百浪潮 從凝視到認同｜公視 #獨立特派員 第910集 20250709 YouTube video by 公共電視-獨立特派員 PTS INNEWS

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

Hidden gems of LGBTQ+ cinema: Saving Face is a complicated romcom that tenderly depicts the experiences of queer Asians A woman’s desire and cultural expectation clash in this heartwarming romantic comedy.

🌈 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).

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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

Countering Digital Colonialism | CCCB LAB A new type of dependency is emerging in which digital infrastructures replicate the old colonial logics.

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! ☺️

New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experie…

✨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...

How Thailand’s TV lesbian romances captured a global audience The rise of queer romances for women in Thailand signals the emergence of more tolerant and progressive attitudes to LGBTQ+ people.

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.

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The article is published in Sexualities: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... An open access AAM version is available at Lancaster University's repository: www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/servi...

We trace Sinophone queer scholarship throughout the past three decades focuses on geopolitics and thus moves away from the one-way, center-peripheral imagination of identity by relying on China as the center, and toward different directionalities and forms of attachments and allyship in HK and TW:

The abstract of the paper Liu, W., & Li, E. C.-Y. (2024). The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan. Sexualities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241237695

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. 🧵

Can I be added to the list as well? Thank you.

Hi could you please also add @mcsjournal.bsky.social to the list? Thank you.

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! 😇

Through preliminary discourse analysis of 8 series broadcast by August 2024 and media interviews of creators, Ka-Wei Pang (CUHK) and I explore how the GL media industry charts a new path in queer media, despite its commercial underpinning and references to the production & marketing practices of BL.

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