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Public Humanities Talk Series “The Sound of the City”

Date: 31 October, 2025 (Friday)
Time: 5pm-6:30pm

Let’s listen to Hong Kong together—where every sound tells a story.
🔗 ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk/main/?events=2
#CUHK #PublicHumanities #PHCU
October 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Check out this beautifully filmed video
of our new BA programme in Public Humanities!
#CUHK #PublicHumanities #PHCU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1BJ...
公共人文:文化中間人 Public Humanities @ CUHK: Future Cultural Mediators
YouTube video by cuhkcrs
www.youtube.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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 3:56 PM
Reposted by K.W. Pang
If you're interested in LGBTQ+ media, transnational media flows, or how fandoms shape emerging industries, this is a must-read! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Queer Media from the Global South: The Emerging Girls Love (GL) Media Industry of Southeast Asia
This article examines the recent rise of Girls Love (GL) media featuring women’s same-sex romance, produced in Thailand. While Boys Love (BL) media has gained mainstream attention since the mid-201...
www.tandfonline.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
#ThaiGL is not only commercially viable but also culturally transformative. It is reshaping how queer women's stories are told & viewed globally🏳️‍🌈
#FreenBecky #EngLot #LingOrm #FayeYoko
#GAPtheseries #TheSecretOfUs #PlutoSeries #PetrichorTheSeries #TheLoyalPin
🔗 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 4:36 PM
Reposted by K.W. Pang
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...
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
Reposted by K.W. Pang
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
November 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Reposted by K.W. Pang
Through preliminary discourse analysis of 8 series broadcast by August 2024 and media interviews of creators, Ka-Wei Pang (CUHK) and I explore how the GL media industry charts a new path in queer media, despite its commercial underpinning and references to the production & marketing practices of BL.
November 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Reposted by K.W. Pang
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
Li, Eva Cheuk-Yin, and Pang, Ka-Wei. "Fandom Meets Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Participatory Culture as Human–Community–Machine Interactions." European Journal of Cultural Studies 27, no.4 (2024), 778-787. doi.org/10.1177/1367....
@evacyli.bsky.social #AI #Fandom #HCMI
November 22, 2024 at 3:59 PM
"The very queer nature of this mom fandom transforms the supposedly inelastic kinship in the Sinophone setting and liberates these mom fans from the norms and taboos of the heteropatriarchy, so that fantasies of all sorts can be played out."— doi.org/10.2307/jj.4...
#seriesY #Thailand #MomFandom
Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness on JSTOR
The 2010s have seen an explosion in popularity of Chinese television featuring same-sex intimacies, LGBTQ-identified celebrities, and explicitly homoerotic stor...
doi.org
November 22, 2024 at 3:52 PM