Eva C.Y. Li
@evacyli.bsky.social
Queer Fandom | Gender Nonconformity | Diaspora Media
Assistant Prof in Media & Cultural Studies, Lancaster University 🇬🇧
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica 🇹🇼 (2025)
She/They/Keoi佢 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.evacyli.com
Assistant Prof in Media & Cultural Studies, Lancaster University 🇬🇧
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica 🇹🇼 (2025)
She/They/Keoi佢 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.evacyli.com
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The UK regulator Ofcom turns UK impartiality rules upside down - allowing GBNews presenters to escape restrictions by claiming ti be "current affairs" not news. bjr.org.uk/ofcom-is-now...
Ofcom is now defying logic - BJR
Why is the media regulator reinterpreting statutory rules on impartiality to allow partisan politicians to present news programmes on GB News?
bjr.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The UK regulator Ofcom turns UK impartiality rules upside down - allowing GBNews presenters to escape restrictions by claiming ti be "current affairs" not news. bjr.org.uk/ofcom-is-now...
✨Just out: Learning from Different Approaches to Gender Nonconformity — a convo with Jass Thethi & Rudy Loewe on decolonial, defiant ways of researching gender. Huge thanks to @krheyam.bsky.social and Jonathan Ward for the invitation.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Open access link in the comments.
#queerstudies #LGBTStudies
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Open access link in the comments.
#queerstudies #LGBTStudies
July 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
✨Just out: Learning from Different Approaches to Gender Nonconformity — a convo with Jass Thethi & Rudy Loewe on decolonial, defiant ways of researching gender. Huge thanks to @krheyam.bsky.social and Jonathan Ward for the invitation.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Open access link in the comments.
#queerstudies #LGBTStudies
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Open access link in the comments.
#queerstudies #LGBTStudies
Honoured to be interviewed by PTS Taiwan (公共電視) 🇹🇼— in what’s likely the first journalistic TV feature outside of Thailand on the rise of Thai #GirlsLove dramas and their transnational queer significance. 🌏🌈
🔗 youtu.be/gBYN4Ghq82k?...
#GL #LGBT #QueerTV
🔗 youtu.be/gBYN4Ghq82k?...
#GL #LGBT #QueerTV
泰國百合劇席捲亞洲 掀起多元性別文化新浪潮｜泰百浪潮 從凝視到認同｜公視 #獨立特派員 第910集 20250709
YouTube video by 公共電視-獨立特派員 PTS INNEWS
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July 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Honoured to be interviewed by PTS Taiwan (公共電視) 🇹🇼— in what’s likely the first journalistic TV feature outside of Thailand on the rise of Thai #GirlsLove dramas and their transnational queer significance. 🌏🌈
🔗 youtu.be/gBYN4Ghq82k?...
#GL #LGBT #QueerTV
🔗 youtu.be/gBYN4Ghq82k?...
#GL #LGBT #QueerTV
🌈 Happy Pride! I wrote a piece for The Conversation on one of my favourite queer films: Saving Face (2004) by Alice Wu 🎬 It’s such a heartfelt, underrated gem in LGBTQ+ cinema.
theconversation.com/hidden-gems-...
#SavingFace #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #AsianCinema #QueerAsian
theconversation.com/hidden-gems-...
#SavingFace #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #AsianCinema #QueerAsian
Hidden gems of LGBTQ+ cinema: Saving Face is a complicated romcom that tenderly depicts the experiences of queer Asians
A woman’s desire and cultural expectation clash in this heartwarming romantic comedy.
theconversation.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🌈 Happy Pride! I wrote a piece for The Conversation on one of my favourite queer films: Saving Face (2004) by Alice Wu 🎬 It’s such a heartfelt, underrated gem in LGBTQ+ cinema.
theconversation.com/hidden-gems-...
#SavingFace #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #AsianCinema #QueerAsian
theconversation.com/hidden-gems-...
#SavingFace #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #AsianCinema #QueerAsian
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Tomorrow, June 4th, 36 years after the Tiananmen massacre, we will be hosting Jeff Wasserstrom to discuss his new book, The Milk Tea Alliance (Columbia Global Reports).
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@jwassers.bsky.social
@jmulich.bsky.social
@wpsa.bsky.social
@mtacalendar.bsky.social
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@jwassers.bsky.social
@jmulich.bsky.social
@wpsa.bsky.social
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June 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Tomorrow, June 4th, 36 years after the Tiananmen massacre, we will be hosting Jeff Wasserstrom to discuss his new book, The Milk Tea Alliance (Columbia Global Reports).
forms.gle/Hao6sc1kX8fg...
@jwassers.bsky.social
@jmulich.bsky.social
@wpsa.bsky.social
@mtacalendar.bsky.social
forms.gle/Hao6sc1kX8fg...
@jwassers.bsky.social
@jmulich.bsky.social
@wpsa.bsky.social
@mtacalendar.bsky.social
Friends in London, I’ll be talking about Thai Girls Love media on 7 June, as part of Formosa Salon 倫敦講臺’s Pride Month event! 👭🏻🇹🇭🏳️🌈The talk will be in Mandarin Chinese. Secure your place at this link and hope to see you there! 🔗 formosasalon.org.uk/post/queer-m...
#GL #GirlsLove #Yuri #QueerAsia
#GL #GirlsLove #Yuri #QueerAsia
June 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Friends in London, I’ll be talking about Thai Girls Love media on 7 June, as part of Formosa Salon 倫敦講臺’s Pride Month event! 👭🏻🇹🇭🏳️🌈The talk will be in Mandarin Chinese. Secure your place at this link and hope to see you there! 🔗 formosasalon.org.uk/post/queer-m...
#GL #GirlsLove #Yuri #QueerAsia
#GL #GirlsLove #Yuri #QueerAsia
Getting ready for the Queer Sinophone Studies & the Question of Geopolitics Symposium at Academia Sinica! 🎤📚 Countdown begins—just two weeks to go! 🗓️✨ #QueerStudies #Geopolitics
March 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Getting ready for the Queer Sinophone Studies & the Question of Geopolitics Symposium at Academia Sinica! 🎤📚 Countdown begins—just two weeks to go! 🗓️✨ #QueerStudies #Geopolitics
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Digital colonialism: 'US tech monopolies...have embedded themselves into South African society'. E.g. Operation Phakisa, 'designed to equip public schools with digital tools but, in reality, hands over the country’s educational data sovereignty to US corporations. lab.cccb.org/en/counterin...
Countering Digital Colonialism | CCCB LAB
A new type of dependency is emerging in which digital infrastructures replicate the old colonial logics.
lab.cccb.org
March 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Digital colonialism: 'US tech monopolies...have embedded themselves into South African society'. E.g. Operation Phakisa, 'designed to equip public schools with digital tools but, in reality, hands over the country’s educational data sovereignty to US corporations. lab.cccb.org/en/counterin...
Thank you to The Chinese University of Hong Kong for hosting me yesterday. I very much enjoyed engaging with colleagues and students on AI's societal implications through fandom studies and exploring how the humanities & social sciences can contribute to research in AI ethics and governance.
Excited to start my sabbatical travel in Asia with a talk at CUHK on "When Fans Meet AI: A Feminist Ethics of Care" next month, on 12 March. See you in Hong Kong! 🎤✨ #AI #DigitalCulture #FeministEthics
March 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Thank you to The Chinese University of Hong Kong for hosting me yesterday. I very much enjoyed engaging with colleagues and students on AI's societal implications through fandom studies and exploring how the humanities & social sciences can contribute to research in AI ethics and governance.
I’m giving a talk today at Lingnan University on how AI is shaping the future of fandom. Really looking forward to the discussion! ☺️
March 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I’m giving a talk today at Lingnan University on how AI is shaping the future of fandom. Really looking forward to the discussion! ☺️
Our research on Thai GL is featured in Bangkok post! ☺️
Thank you Bangkok Post for featuring our journal article on #ThaiGL! 🙏 @evacyli.bsky.social
Lesbian media still in the shadows
The Thai Girls
www.bangkokpost.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Our research on Thai GL is featured in Bangkok post! ☺️
✨Honoured to contribute to this timely volume edited by
@krheyam.bsky.social & Jon Ward!
I reflect on my experiences researching zhongxing (the middle gender) in Sinophone Asia, exploring how geopolitics shaped gender/sex knowledge.
Now available for pre-order🛒 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...
@krheyam.bsky.social & Jon Ward!
I reflect on my experiences researching zhongxing (the middle gender) in Sinophone Asia, exploring how geopolitics shaped gender/sex knowledge.
Now available for pre-order🛒 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...
New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity
This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experie…
www.bloomsbury.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
✨Honoured to contribute to this timely volume edited by
@krheyam.bsky.social & Jon Ward!
I reflect on my experiences researching zhongxing (the middle gender) in Sinophone Asia, exploring how geopolitics shaped gender/sex knowledge.
Now available for pre-order🛒 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...
@krheyam.bsky.social & Jon Ward!
I reflect on my experiences researching zhongxing (the middle gender) in Sinophone Asia, exploring how geopolitics shaped gender/sex knowledge.
Now available for pre-order🛒 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...
We discussed the global popularity of #Thai Girls Love #GL series and why this matters. Thai GL celebrates joy and thriving queer relationships 🌈💖, in contrast to Hollywood's #BuryYourGays trope @kwpang.bsky.social
#EngLot #FayeYoko #FreenBecky #LingOrm theconversation.com/how-thailand...
#EngLot #FayeYoko #FreenBecky #LingOrm theconversation.com/how-thailand...
How Thailand’s TV lesbian romances captured a global audience
The rise of queer romances for women in Thailand signals the emergence of more tolerant and progressive attitudes to LGBTQ+ people.
theconversation.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We discussed the global popularity of #Thai Girls Love #GL series and why this matters. Thai GL celebrates joy and thriving queer relationships 🌈💖, in contrast to Hollywood's #BuryYourGays trope @kwpang.bsky.social
#EngLot #FayeYoko #FreenBecky #LingOrm theconversation.com/how-thailand...
#EngLot #FayeYoko #FreenBecky #LingOrm theconversation.com/how-thailand...
Excited to start my sabbatical travel in Asia with a talk at CUHK on "When Fans Meet AI: A Feminist Ethics of Care" next month, on 12 March. See you in Hong Kong! 🎤✨ #AI #DigitalCulture #FeministEthics
February 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Excited to start my sabbatical travel in Asia with a talk at CUHK on "When Fans Meet AI: A Feminist Ethics of Care" next month, on 12 March. See you in Hong Kong! 🎤✨ #AI #DigitalCulture #FeministEthics
Happy New Year! ✨🎉
I’m starting my 2025 with a slice of Hong Kong history every day.
I’m starting my 2025 with a slice of Hong Kong history every day.
January 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy New Year! ✨🎉
I’m starting my 2025 with a slice of Hong Kong history every day.
I’m starting my 2025 with a slice of Hong Kong history every day.
As 2024 draws to a close, I'm very pleased to see this piece, joint first authorship with Wen Liu, published. We propose the #geopolitics of queer archives to trace queer knowledge and activism connecting HK and TW, often overlooked under the shadow of the "greater China" framework. 🧵
December 18, 2024 at 10:47 AM
As 2024 draws to a close, I'm very pleased to see this piece, joint first authorship with Wen Liu, published. We propose the #geopolitics of queer archives to trace queer knowledge and activism connecting HK and TW, often overlooked under the shadow of the "greater China" framework. 🧵
Check out the latest editorial in the Crosscurrents themed issue: "Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond #COVID-19." It's crucial to consider how this global event has reshaped our societies and its lasting implications.
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December 17, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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We were told that the lecture hall at the University of Florence was previously a church. Thus, @evacyli.bsky.social and I did present our paper under the Heavenly One.
December 15, 2024 at 8:25 AM
We were told that the lecture hall at the University of Florence was previously a church. Thus, @evacyli.bsky.social and I did present our paper under the Heavenly One.
Students in my MA fandom module highlighted "how to be ethical fans" as a major challenge in today's mediascape. I'm pleased to hear this, and we must keep engaging in these discussions! 😇
December 13, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Students in my MA fandom module highlighted "how to be ethical fans" as a major challenge in today's mediascape. I'm pleased to hear this, and we must keep engaging in these discussions! 😇
Good news that our #GirlsLove paper is now published online. It's the first academic journal in English that explores the recent #GL boom in Thailand, queer media from the Global South!🏳️🌈
It's Open Access so it's free to read ✨https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2024.2433564
It's Open Access so it's free to read ✨https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2024.2433564
November 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Good news that our #GirlsLove paper is now published online. It's the first academic journal in English that explores the recent #GL boom in Thailand, queer media from the Global South!🏳️🌈
It's Open Access so it's free to read ✨https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2024.2433564
It's Open Access so it's free to read ✨https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2024.2433564
First post here: Our article, '#Queer Media from the Global South: The Emerging Girls Love (#GL) Industry of Southeast Asia,' has been accepted for publication in Spring 2025✨ It'll be the first academic journal article to investigate the recent boom in GL production in SE Asia🏳️🌈 @kwpang.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 11:32 PM
First post here: Our article, '#Queer Media from the Global South: The Emerging Girls Love (#GL) Industry of Southeast Asia,' has been accepted for publication in Spring 2025✨ It'll be the first academic journal article to investigate the recent boom in GL production in SE Asia🏳️🌈 @kwpang.bsky.social