@graceenyiting
🇭🇰🇹🇼Taiwanese American queer feminist scholar in HK (they/she)✨👭🏻 Transnational Asian feminisms & queer politics, Japanese literature, girls’ culture, manga, cute culture, care, crip/disability studies Mostly English (中文: Threads)
Quoted briefly on cute culture in Hong Kong. As usual, what I actually said was a lot more complex (but they cited me very specifically on the Hong Kong context, which I'm not really an expert on - yet!).
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The 2nd-generation 外省人 plight of having political beliefs that are totally different from your family’s, and trying to ignore them politely since you know elderly Taiwanese will never listen to your opinion. 🤦♀️ I wonder how this compares to generation gaps in HK concerning politics.
As someone with experience with mental illness, I only recently grasped how unwilling most ppl are to deal with anyone who doesn’t only have mild depression or anxiety. I’m sad to say I honestly don’t think most ppl understand what it means to criminalize mental illness & most ppl do not care.
OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING
On Threads I say things but am held back slightly by every effort to write in Chinese. Before I went slightly viral on Twitter by ranting about diff issues, but that’s not my kind of negativity these days. 🤔 Social media affect is hard to manage.
If I can’t feel a sense of community here: Maybe Bluesky is a good place to talk to myself…and stalkers? 🤔 (A logical train of thought & adheres to how the world is going, but sad.)
Can anyone recommend good starter packs? 🥲🙏 Feminisms & queer politics, literature & translation, care, crip/disability, cute & girls’ culture, esp. stuff from Asian perspectives. Oh, and Japan, HK, Taiwan, mainland China stuff.
I want to try this out but feels claustrophobic. Thanks!
James Baldwin’s words are perfect at this time
I'm looking forward to this talk on "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" next week and meeting @jameswelker.bsky.social in person! events.purdue.edu/event/transf...
Seeing what Trump is doing everyday, the need for anger isn’t what’s first on my mind—I hope queers, feminists, all marginalized ppl can do their utmost to learn how to truly enact love & care. That is the real starting point for resistance & liberation.
This is a dilemma for me because many who identify as non-binary are cis-passing. I simply don’t believe they/we should take up as much space. But right now, what is better in terms of solidarity? What are the politics & ethical dilemmas of how we identify & use our identities? (3/3)
👉Would that mean standing by trans ppl to fight harder in solidarity?
👉Would it mean jumping on board to take up more space & frame myself as a “victim” and extra marginalized in this moment when I’m not? It’s tempting, isn’t it, to find an easy path to getting sympathy. And toxic as f*ck. (2/3)
Apropos of nothing, I’ve been thinking for a long time about what non-binary identity means to me, now even more since the attack on trans rights with the new US administration.
If I openly identify as non-binary, whether or not I actively change my gender presentation, what would that mean? (1/3)
Hmm, I’m not sure. Last year these might have been recorded or something, but I’d have to check. (Plus I’m writing a proposal but could easily get rejected. 🤷♀️)
Hi, are there any folks out there who want to be on a round table w/me at AAS to discuss how the US is going to hell & what we can try to do about it as scholars? DM me; maybe we’ll be on the same page. Esp. interested in making space for relatively junior ppl. Thanks. 🩶 Please share!
Sorry that I am not here often. Too busy recovering from reading like a gazillion posts on sexual assault in Ch on Threads thanks to the bad behavior of Taiwan McDonald’s & the misogynists who make a pt of buying McD right after this news broke out. 🤮 We’re all suffering in different bubbles.
I research Japanese lit, but many writers are uncertain about LGBT+ issues, & some are transphobic. This is the case with writers in any language, but I wish I knew how to patiently, effectively help teach them. Despite my Yale PhD, I don’t know how many would trust me enough to be my students. 😅
Dangerous Women by R. O. Kwon author of THE INCENDIARIES and EXHIBIT texts: Is there anything we can do to support you this week other than amplifying book-related things? Rest up love am trying to remind myself that all will be well, but obviously if anything happens, you must avenge me
wrote this a little while ago, an ode to a group chat I have with a couple of dear friends, @nicolechung.bsky.social & @crystalhanak.bsky.social <3
& glad to see it up today as part of a joint essay in the @washingtonpost.com
Aren’t journalists supposed to write about the truth? Aren’t they supposed to give voices to the voiceless? This sounds naive, but in HK I still mourn many things and dream about more journalism, that tries to do more. If you’re this kind of journalist, I want to know you.
I was also told: No complex narratives are allowed. Such as talking about how East Asian feminist movements are plagued with transphobia and other violence. Transphobia is AWFUL now in Taiwan, but who wants to write this story? It’s too confusing when Taiwan is held up as a bastion of human rights.
Was talking to a friend who said she was sad that LGBTQ in Western countries don’t seem to care about what’s happening in East Asia. There’s no desire to know or report in more mainstream media on what ppl here are dealing with. There’s a lack of solidarity.
Graphic featuring covers of "All Of Us or None" and "Fire Dreams." At the top are the words "Political Protests and Movements of Resistance" and "Read to Respond."
Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Today we share resources on political protest:
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This is an excellent article in @newbloommag.net by @yolingwrites.bsky.social. It has less details concerning the many legal battles she's been fighting in Japan, too. New Bloom is great but niche: please let Kotomi's story about anti-LGBT+/transphobia go further.
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Hi, folks. If you haven't yet, please check out queer author Li Kotomi's public statement in which she comes out as trans after being bullied, harassed, & doxxed. Read & share widely.
If you are a journalist or have contacts w/Eng-lang. media, please DM me (she agreed I can field inquiries).
My latest anthology is Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
You can find out more about my book plus a free plain language version and discussion guide on my website
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/disabil...
I bought this cap from a HK artist based in NYC right before the US election. I think it’s about right for these times. You can see I’m hard at work with language practice. (Hi Canto speakers 😆🫰💛)
中文語境的朋友！For anyone who reads Chinese, I’ve been writing about feminist & queer issues on Threads in Chinese for awhile now. 👋🌈 Add me!
I might post mainly in English here for an Eng-speaking audience, but I write on Threads in Ch to help expand discourses relatively limited in East Asia.
#4B If journalists want to interview me on why I'm troubled by 4B: I'm a scholar w/a Yale PhD specializing in transnational Asian queer/feminist issues. I'm fluent in Japanese, Chinese, & studied Korean; I've lived in Asia for years (Japan, HK, Taiwan).
I vaguely get the sense (trying not to read triggering material) there are a few journalists who have written decent pieces on this by now, plus other scholars speaking up.
But this is my longer take on #4B and why I find it terrible to see any US feminists (whether white, Asian/POC) supporting it.
But it's clearly enough that it stresses the crap out of me.
Please let's just not legitimatize feminism that has so often gone horribly wrong & hurt ppl in East Asia. And it's 100% disrespectful/arrogant to say, "Well, as US feminists we'll do it perfectly, so who give a f*ck."
