@pohanlee
Teaching in the Global Health Program at National Taiwan University; trained in International Law and Political Sociology, focusing on health policy, feminist and queer studies, disability activism and rights, medical anthropology, and sex workers' rights.
Critical Times journal cover showing three women standing shoulder to shoulder against a light background with issue title and details below
The Weekly Read is "Race and Caste: Crisis and Histories of the Postcolonial Contemporary" by Ruchi Chaturvedi and Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi. The article is the introduction to a special issue of the open-access journal Critical Times (8:2). Read it for free: buff.ly/hGQZIJq
We remember Allane and Layse for who they were in life, and for what they loved and made. Allane was a pedagogue, researcher, and educator, and she was also a musician and a mother to a thirteen-year-old daughter. Singing, playing percussion, composing, and moving within samba communities were central to how she lived, connected, and imagined futures. Layse was a psychologist whose work centred on listening, accompaniment, and care, particularly within educational spaces. Her labour was grounded in attentiveness to others and in the everyday work of sustaining mental health, dignity, and possibility. Their lives were full, relational, and shaped by commitments to education, creativity, and care. To mourn them is to refuse the narrowing of their lives to the moment of their deaths. It is also to recognise that this violence did not emerge in a vacuum. Feminist thinking has long taught us that gendered violence is structural, produced through institutional cultures that tolerate misogyny, disregard warning signs, and fail to act with care and responsibility. Educational institutions are not outside these dynamics. They are shaped by them, even as they are often imagined as spaces of safety, critical thought, and protection. In this case, there were prior reports and concrete warnings about the perpetrator, yet he was allowed to return to the institution. We join others in demanding clear and public accountability on the following questions: Why did the school’s leadership fail to act on multiple reports of violent behaviour associated with him? How was he able to enter CEFET-RJ carrying a firearm? These are not secondary questions. They point to institutional decisions and omissions that made this violence possible.
The #FeministReviewCollective writes in sorrow and solidarity following the killing of Allane de Souza Pedrotti Matos and Layse Costa Pinheiro at the Federal Centre for Technological Education of Rio de Janeiro. We join a collective space of mourning, shaped by shared grief, anger, and care.
Feminist Review invites Open Space submissions. Feminist Review (FR) explores gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships with other social categories and systems of power. We publish accessible knowledge and timely interventions that build on the work of Black, Indigenous, decolonial, and transnational feminist struggles. We advance an intersectional feminist understanding that inequalities are co-constitutive within the social categories and organising mechanisms of gender, race, class, caste, sexuality, ableism, ethnicity, coloniality, capitalism, and sanism, among others. FR’s purpose is to hold space for conversations about feminist scholarship and praxis that rethink and reimagine the modes and contexts in which it operates, and the questions it takes up. FR is committed to inspiring exchanges of ideas and explorations of praxis that address, disrupt, and break through structural violence to create and nurture communities, connections, and ways of sharing knowledge founded on mutual respect, kindness, and care. FR’s Open Space pieces are experimental, visionary, creative, and radical work. We invite exploratory, critical pieces that are provocative towards or that challenge academic norms and/or experiment with boundary-breaking forms. Authors should submit completed open space manuscripts through FR’s online submissions portal by 31 May 2026.
#FeministReview is inviting OS submissions!
All topics are welcome, particularly:
*caste, race, decoloniality
*theory-praxis disjunctures
*#Global South feminist pedagogies
*politics of disappointment
*production/reproduction
Please submit by 31 May 2026: femrev.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...
Making crip feminism withangels’ hands: A manifesto (of ambivalence)
By Po-Han Lee, Ya-Wen Huang and Chien-Ju Chou
#criptheory #feministdisabilitystudies #HandAngel
#FR141: journals.sagepub.com/share/AZUDQH...
@pohanlee.bsky.social
Silent subversions and negotiations: An interview with a married effeminate man in the MSM community
By Marian Dias and L. T. Om Prakash
#sex #identity #pleasure
#FR141: journals.sagepub.com/share/ET5R56...
It was quite a journey, but I’m so honored to have worked with three wonderful women with disability on this piece, with lots of care and thoughtful support from #FeministReview’s editors.
“Poland’s ruling coalition has adopted plans to legally recognize ‘significant others’ in informal relationships, including between same-sex couples.”
This limited legal recognition of same-sex couples in Poland is a small step as LGBT folks there fight for greater legal and social support.
🇵🇱🏳️🌈
Very honoured to have worked on this piece, “making #cripfeminism with angels’ hands”, with Ya-Wen Huang, Chien-Ju Chou, and Chun-Chieh Lin, the three women with disabilities I've admired for years. Recently published on #FeministReview:
journals.sagepub.com/share/PUGFSS...
Co-learning in crisis: A comparative analysis of digital preparedness during COVID-19 in Taiwan and the United Kingdom www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From Words to Laws: Partial Epistemological Shift in Post-COVID Global Pandemic Governance
Screenshot of web link to journal.
📔: “The spirit and gist of a gathering of people who worked closely with Drucilla…”
Thrilled to announce the publication of our new special issue, “Limit, Transformation, Imagination — Honouring the Legacy of Drucilla Cornell” edited by Karin van Marle.
Read here: link.springer.com/journal/1069...
#FeministReview 141 is out! Our most recent #Currents Issue includes research and theoretical articles, and open-space creative writing, with many of them being open access. Have a look and join the conversations with us and the authors. Enjoy your reads!
#FR141: journals.sagepub.com/toc/fera/141/1
In this study, we examine Taiwan’s human rights treaty reviews and an often unspoken dilemma: how abortion debates involving foetal impairment are strategically avoided across policy and advocacy spaces, proposing a “liveable life” framework to bridge reproductive autonomy and disability justice.
Image text says: Have you read the Sage Prize winning paper for SRO journal? Nested Narratives by Susie Scott and Nina Lockwood explores the ways in which biographical subjects narrate their lives unlived. Read the full paper #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231184353
Have you read the Sage Prize winning paper for SRO journal?
Nested Narratives by Susie Scott and Nina Lockwood explores the ways in which biographical subjects narrate their lives unlived.
Read the full paper #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1177/1360...
Book Review of 3 amazing books on #MagdelaneLaundries, & Mother&BabyHomes #MBH @flsjournal.bsky.social out.
No way to sum up the ways in which survivors & affected people are continuily let down by the Govs on island of Ireland & religious institutions but these books try 1/3
bit.ly/3JKSngT
How Catholic feminists in theAmericas rethink religion and(transnational) feminism
By Alyssa Bedrosian
#abortion #Argentina #Catholicfeminism
#FR141: journals.sagepub.com/share/GYCG3C...
Embodying transborder feminist companionship and community-based research in the age of US–China geopolitical crises
By Anzi Dong
#community-basedresearch #ethicsofsolidarity #GlobalSouthfeministmethodologies
#FR141: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Health work, not sex work: Situating Asian massage work as healing labour
By Wei Si Nic Yiu
#ethnography #genderandrace #healinglabour
FR141:
📄 My own piece is admittedly less creative
“Suspended Agency: Cripping Judicial Ambivalence to Intellectual Disability and Sexuality” (journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/artic...), examining how Taiwanese courts adjudicate cases on sexual consent involving persons with ID from a crip perspective.
🎶 “Equali-T”, a song by SJ Cooper-Knock (University of Sheffield), written in response to “For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers (2025)”, which excluded trans women from the protection for “women” in equality between men and women: youtu.be/3oYEAgZXW0M?...
🎥 Foreword video by Graeme Reid, UN Independent Expert on SOGI-based violence and discrimination: youtu.be/kheQ-Oy-K0s?...
Most ‘fun’ special section I’ve ever been part of!
Amicus Curiae: #QueerJudgments, edited by Alex Powell & Katie Jukes 👉 journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/issue...
Somaliland is the world’s largest self-governing territory without official statehood — and it’s aligning with Taiwan, not China, to build its economy and gain international standing.
🎙️ Somaliland’s representative to Taiwan, Ambassador Mahmoud Adam Jama Galaal
📺 youtu.be/mkCA4ITEdwM
Cover of Queer Traffic: Sex, Panic, Free Trade by Jennifer Tyburczy. The top half features the title in bold pink text against a black background. Below, a shirtless person with a serious expression stands against a dark backdrop, with their torso under magenta and blue lighting. They hold a large, dirty shovel in one hand and a vampire-like mask in the other. Their face is streaked with red paint resembling blood.
Save 50% on #NewBook "Queer Traffic" by Jennifer Tyburczy, which traces how sexual dissidents across the Mexico-Canada-US borderlands transport the objects and experiences that nourish their sexual and social lives. #QueerTheory
buff.ly/JOsoJ8p
Escaping the spectacle? Young women’s ambivalence to gender aesthetics on Xiaohongshu
By Yu Gu, Yingchun Xu and Zhou Min
#beautynorms #consumerism #empowerment
#FR141: journals.sagepub.com/share/5JCYQX...
As Taipei gears up to host Asia’s largest Pride event, Taiwan LGBT+ Pride, we look at the future of LGBTQ+ activism across Asia amid shrinking corporate sponsorships and fading DEI budgets.
📺 youtu.be/Xv1xxT9-IP8
🎙️ Minwoo Jung, Po-Han Lee / @pohanlee.bsky.social, Wang Hao-Zhong & Sun Meng-Chun
Asia’s pink economy is thriving, but not without pressure. What does queer activism look like in a region driven by powerful consumer bases that power their own versions of rainbow capitalism?
📺 youtu.be/32-0AFVxO8A
🎙️ Minwoo Jung & Po-Han Lee / @pohanlee.bsky.social
Women on a march hold up sign which says, “A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine.”
Happy International Lesbian Day! ☀️
Book cover of Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge & Power, edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews. The background is light blue with the title in large dark blue text at the top. Below the title, there is an illustration of armored soldiers in helmets and gear blended with soft, colorful flowers. The editors’ names are written in red text above the illustration.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Decolonizing Afghanistan," edited by @wazhmah.bsky.social and Robert D. Crews, which marks a decolonial turn in #Afghanistan and #AmericanStudies.
buff.ly/dnOAAgT
