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…
Colonialism Moments of hope from the Section 377 ruling September 6, 2018 0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed History has been made. In four different, but concurrent, opinions, the Supreme Court of India has repealed IPC Section 377, decriminalising…
Identity politics Academic Theory and Practice – The Queer Body in Online Discourse July 20, 2018 0 Written by Ping-Hsuan Wang. Taiwan LGBT Pride, held on the last Saturday in October in Taipei, has been growing rapidly in the past decade. Last year,…
India Why the Centre wants Supreme Court to stick only to sexual rights of LGBTQ community July 19, 2018 0 Written by Sruthisagar Yamunan The Centre on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to confine itself to the question of sexual rights in the cases relating to…
China Chinese Cosmopolitanism and the Risk to Queer Identity July 17, 2018 0 The author requested to remain anonymous. During the release tour of his new book Queer Comrades, University of Nottingham academic Hongwei Bao was on the…
Identity politics Toward A Critical Study of Racialization – Notes from West Asia July 16, 2018 0 Written by Adriana Ahmad Qubaia-ova. Lebanon is quickly becoming a major site for the production of knowledge on gender and sexuality in the Middle East…
LGBTQ The ‘Marriage’ Imagination of the Queer Communities in Asia February 15, 2018 1 Written by Hongwei Bao. With same-sex marriages soon to be legalised in Taiwan, which has instantly triggered the imagination of ‘marriage’ in Asia’s queer communities,…
China Fear of A Queer China January 29, 2018 0 Written by Hongwei Bao. The title of the research workshop ‘Fear of A Queer China’, to be held at the University of Nottingham on 5-6 February…
LGBTQ Going abroad: A new mobility for Chinese queer women October 3, 2017 0 Written by Lucetta Y. L. Kam. As a child who growing up in China in the 1970s, I learned the term chuguo (出国) from adult conversation.…
Culture and Society Queer Activism in Contemporary Beijing October 6, 2014 0 Written by William F. Schroeder. Having just been on a discussion panel called “Light Documentaries and Heavy Activism” (“轻纪录片与重行动主义”) at the 7th Beijing Queer Film Festival,…
