China The spectacle of cuckoldry and the crisis of the libidinal economy November 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: Weibo phone by bfishadow/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Dino Ge Zhang. The Weibo page Green Hat Society is an online society for people…
Asia Bangladeshi queer utopia: How activists are reclaiming local narratives to empower the community November 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: UK celebrates ruling on Section 377 by British High Commission / Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The current…
China The unfinished sexual revolution in China November 20, 2019 0 Image Credit: Beijing China by James Macey/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. Written by Xiying Wang. ‘Sexual revolution’ has become a buzzword used by scholars both…
China What does premarital sex mean in a dating culture compared to a courtship culture? November 19, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by Tim Wong/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by William Jankowiak. The relationship between sex, romance and companionship love is seldom smooth or long-lasting.…
China Gender imbalance and the marriage squeeze in China November 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: DSCF9536 by Kahirado/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. Written by Quanbao Jiang. Since the 1980s, China has experienced an abnormally high sex ratio at birth…
Culture and Society The same dart trick: A posthuman perspective on tourism in Thailand November 5, 2019 0 Image Credit: Elephant throwing darts, Dennis Jarvis /Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 Written by Kate Bone and Jane Bone. Introduction The exploitation of animals and…
Asia A most dangerous interaction effect in India October 24, 2019 1 Image Credit: India/China Border by BentheCM/ Flickr; Licence: Public Domain Written by Sten Widmalm. What threatens India’s democracy the most? The Hindu nationalist wave led…
Article 370 Homonationalism, pinkwashing and the question of (queer) Kashmir August 28, 2019 0 Written by Sohini Chatterjee. Image Credit: Rajarshi MITRA/ Dal Lake Dreams, Flickr; Licence: CC By 2.0 Following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of…
Gender India and LGBTQ rights at the United Nations after the demise of Section 377 July 16, 2019 0 Written by Sohini Chatterjee Image Credit: British High Commission, New Delhi/Flicker; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 When in 2003, Brazil – for the first time in the…
Culture and Society LGBT rights in East Asia: Connecting Taiwan to Korea June 24, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich. Image Credit: Travelling in Asia by Julio Martinez/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Exactly two years after Taiwan’s Constitutional Court declared the civil code…