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Brick by Brick – Scholar Dismantling Misconcemtpions about Queer China
The story of Queer Comrades brings together several interrelated issues central to this book: community media, queer activism and an increasingly politicized queer identity, represented by the term tongzhi used in the Chinese name of the webcast. Literally ‘comrade’, tongzhi is one of the most popular terms to refer to sexual minorities in China today. Despite the numerous other terms…
Unraveled – Death of S.A Teacher Highlights Casual Racism in China’s Medical Industry
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! – and listens to their testimony.” – No Name on the Street, James Baldwin
Foreign & Feared – Chinese CDC’s Monkeypox Advice Sparks Xenophobia and Homophobia
“Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering…
Phoenix Rising – Sri Lanka’s Queer Community Anticipates Penal Code Change
“I was able to leave the constraints of myself and ascend into another, more brilliant, more beautiful self, a self to whom this day was dedicated, and around whom the world, represented by my cousins putting flowers in my hair, draping the palu, seemed to revolve. It was a self magnified, like the goddesses of the Sinhalese and Tamil cinema,…
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