Grace Ting 丁恩宜 グレイス・ティン
@graceenyiting.bsky.social
🇭🇰🇹🇼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)
Mostly English (中文: Threads)
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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.
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.
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!).
www.scmp.com/postmag/cult...
www.scmp.com/postmag/cult...
The cult of cute: inside Sanrio’s multigenerational grip
Sanrio’s Kuromi and My Melody turn 20 and 50 this year. What explains the cross-generational pull of cute characters in a hyper-fast world?
www.scmp.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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!).
www.scmp.com/postmag/cult...
www.scmp.com/postmag/cult...
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.
July 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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.
July 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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.
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OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING
July 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING
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.)
July 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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!
I want to try this out but feels claustrophobic. Thanks!
July 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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!
I want to try this out but feels claustrophobic. Thanks!
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James Baldwin’s words are perfect at this time
There is absolutely no salvation without love: this is the wheel in the middle of the wheel. Salvation does not divide. Salvation connects, so that one sees oneself in others and others in oneself.
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
February 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
James Baldwin’s words are perfect at this time
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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...
Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan - Talk by James Welker, Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan
In the early 1970s, Japan saw the emergence of three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms: the women’s liberation (ūman rib...
events.purdue.edu
February 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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.
February 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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.
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)
If I openly identify as non-binary, whether or not I actively change my gender presentation, what would that mean? (1/3)
February 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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)
If I openly identify as non-binary, whether or not I actively change my gender presentation, what would that mean? (1/3)
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!
December 30, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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.
December 27, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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. 😅
December 7, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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. 😅
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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
& glad to see it up today as part of a joint essay in the @washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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
& glad to see it up today as part of a joint essay in the @washingtonpost.com
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.
December 6, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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.
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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:
read.dukeupress.edu/...
read.dukeupress.edu/...
November 21, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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:
read.dukeupress.edu/...
read.dukeupress.edu/...
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).
If you are a journalist or have contacts w/Eng-lang. media, please DM me (she agreed I can field inquiries).
November 22, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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).
If you are a journalist or have contacts w/Eng-lang. media, please DM me (she agreed I can field inquiries).
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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...
You can find out more about my book plus a free plain language version and discussion guide on my website
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/disabil...
November 17, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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...
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 😆🫰💛)
November 16, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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.
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.
bec.to
November 16, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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.
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.
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#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).
November 11, 2024 at 6:45 AM
#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 this is my longer take on #4B and why I find it terrible to see any US feminists (whether white, Asian/POC) supporting it.
Hi, thanks. I'm overwhelmed w/deadlines now so won't dig out many sources for now. But Korean studies scholars have cautioned "mirroring" tactics used by Megalia/similar feminists (reversing misogynistic statements to use against men) are limited in their ability to bring genuine positive change.
November 16, 2024 at 5:20 AM
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 this is my longer take on #4B and why I find it terrible to see any US feminists (whether white, Asian/POC) supporting it.
I wanted to write a poem on lying flat but I'm too busy lying flat to write/submit my poem on lying flat.
November 14, 2024 at 7:59 AM
I wanted to write a poem on lying flat but I'm too busy lying flat to write/submit my poem on lying flat.
What’s weird for me: Being bad at meetings & admin. I’m well-organized, but I’m not good at dealing w/a lot of budgets, rotating committees, etc. Plus it’s kinda funny ‘cause I’m like a gentle radical-leaning liberal, but I’ll say stuff & then be like oops. 😂 (But also I’m adding spice to meetings?)
November 14, 2024 at 3:12 AM
What’s weird for me: Being bad at meetings & admin. I’m well-organized, but I’m not good at dealing w/a lot of budgets, rotating committees, etc. Plus it’s kinda funny ‘cause I’m like a gentle radical-leaning liberal, but I’ll say stuff & then be like oops. 😂 (But also I’m adding spice to meetings?)
(Not unrelated to #4B )
My talk in Taipei on 11/22.
"East Asian Feminisms and Their Affective Worlds: Anger, Humor, and Iyashi Representation"
亞洲女性主義的情動世界：憤怒，幽默，和療癒的表現
Open to the public!
11/22/2024, 3:30–5:00 PM
1F DFLL Conference Room, Gallery of University History, 校史館1樓外文系會議室 (NTU)
(1/6)
My talk in Taipei on 11/22.
"East Asian Feminisms and Their Affective Worlds: Anger, Humor, and Iyashi Representation"
亞洲女性主義的情動世界：憤怒，幽默，和療癒的表現
Open to the public!
11/22/2024, 3:30–5:00 PM
1F DFLL Conference Room, Gallery of University History, 校史館1樓外文系會議室 (NTU)
(1/6)
November 13, 2024 at 8:55 AM
(Not unrelated to #4B )
My talk in Taipei on 11/22.
"East Asian Feminisms and Their Affective Worlds: Anger, Humor, and Iyashi Representation"
亞洲女性主義的情動世界：憤怒，幽默，和療癒的表現
Open to the public!
11/22/2024, 3:30–5:00 PM
1F DFLL Conference Room, Gallery of University History, 校史館1樓外文系會議室 (NTU)
(1/6)
My talk in Taipei on 11/22.
"East Asian Feminisms and Their Affective Worlds: Anger, Humor, and Iyashi Representation"
亞洲女性主義的情動世界：憤怒，幽默，和療癒的表現
Open to the public!
11/22/2024, 3:30–5:00 PM
1F DFLL Conference Room, Gallery of University History, 校史館1樓外文系會議室 (NTU)
(1/6)