Eva C.Y. Li
Queer Fandom | Gender Nonconformity | Diaspora Media
Assistant Prof in Screen Industries, King’s College London 🇬🇧
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica 🇹🇼 (2025)
She/They/Keoi佢 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.evacyli.com
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- ✨Very happy to see my interview on the global rise of Thai Girl Love featured on BBC Global Women — and with my new affiliation included 🏳️🌈👩❤️👩 #GL #GirlsLove #ThaiGL www.instagram.com/p/DTxkno-lwfa/
- Reposted by Eva C.Y. LiNEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
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- ✨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
- 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
- 🌈 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
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- 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
- 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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- 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
- 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! ☺️
- ✨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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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. 🧵
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