Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸
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- NO 👏 GAY 👏 MAN 👏 IS 👏 TRADE
- Me watching Bridgerton: ahh yes regency era stiletto pumps
- Mitski AND Phoebe Bridgers are both coming out with new albums??? oh major depressive disorder is WINNING
- You know what, I'm living for Cho Chang on Bridgerton
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- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸Not a great look that so many university libraries are promoting AI. Libraries have always been a space for valuing authors' work and showing how to locate and properly cite sources--not encouraging tech that steals from authors and produces slop.
- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸Carly Rae Jepsen's "E•MO•TION" is still a no-skip album, even just "Your Type," "Cut to the Feeling," and the horn intro to "Run Away With Me" on the same record would be amazing, and yet! There's more!
- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸im never making fun of shitty comics worlbuilding where a single guy is behind all the worlds societal evils ever again. this epstein shit has me apologizing to the MCU
- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸Now that most of the country wants to abolish ICE, get ready for the goalposts to shift, so that abolish ICE becomes "reform ICE" as we get closer to the election. We have to continue pressure to make sure we really mean abolish, when we say it, otherwise we will be sold out.
- bestie, as a fellow "ex-gay man," i need you to move on from this discourse. it's ok to just not like things without having to intellectualize it 🙂↕️
- Blocked by the quoter.New substack article is up! open.substack.com/pub/autoanon...
- i'm gonna write an entire substack about how rice queens called me bishounen and that's why i transitioned
- you know what i think it's time for me to just block and move on :)
- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸The epstein files reveal the bourgeoisie acting AS A CLASS, which is to say, sharing ideas, cultural touchstones and social circles. But they do not invent economic conditions out of idle conversations, they are idiots repeating what they hear from their underlings and colleagues, please im begging
- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸Black Trans History IS Black History! To those who shaped culture and built possibilities where none were offered. To those who fought, created, and demanded a future where Black trans lives not only exist, but thrive. We are here because of you.
- I love how Kip goes to NYU for grad school in history and Kyle goes to Columbia for grad school in art history and they're still friends 🥰
- i'm so sorry but white women are the last people whose opinions about yaoi I want to hear
- y'all use yaoi and fujoshi as generic terms while ignoring the very specific cultural and historical context that they came out of. your western understandings of gender and sexuality are so irrelevant here
- can people stop fancasting skinny twinks as Harris for season 2 he's literally a cub it's giving fatphobia
- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸Excited my most recent article is out now! In it, we talk about our work to combat anti-trans misinfo at @transstudies.bsky.social and the research my students are I are doing advancing a new framework for understanding misinfo effects. Give it a read here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/R6MNB...
- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸i met kip from heated rivalry
- PLEASE!!!!!!
- Clocking other trans girls in my apartment building
- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸Hey @hootsuite.com, how much does a soul go for these days?
- I just think if your takeaway from Heated Rivalry is that it's just straight women fetishizing gay men, that's more of a you problem than a problem with Heated Rivalry itself 🙈
- And also what is being critiqued here? Heated Rivalry as a text? The fanbase? The author?
- Reposted by Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸"comically evil villain" and it's just gary bettman in groucho marx glasses
- I also want to reiterate that the obsession with determining whether Rachel Reid is straight or not actually works to make invisible the fact that a GAY MAN created the show. The show is from a gay man's perspective. It is informed by his experience as a gay man. It is a gay man's show.
- It's important that Rachel Reid wrote the series as a critique of hockey culture, and it's also important that the TV show is a piece of media written, produced, and directed by a gay man.
- it's interesting how people seem to conveniently forget this fact when they want to criticize the show for "erasing" gay men
- 1) the Game Changers book series is actually a not at all subtle critique of the culture of homophobia and toxic masculinity in hockey 2) regardless of Rachel Reid's sexuality, which has not been publicly confirmed as straight or not straight, Jacob Tierney is an openly gay man creating gay media
- Blocked by the quoter.Anyone who is actually a former gay hockey player will tell you hockey is one of the most homophobic sports (and that’s saying something). There’s a reason there’s never been a NHL player out during his career. This is just straight cis woman fantasy holding up gay men as idealized soft masculinity.
- Reid literally writes in a comically evil villain who tries to stop various characters from coming out and silence sexualt victims. It's really not subtle
- Not to mention how even if you didn't read the books, the major conflict in the show is literally the fact that Shane, Ilya, and Scott don't feel like they can come out because the hockey world is homophobic. This is basic reading comprehension
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View full threadIt's a love story about two men FIGHTING STRUCTURAL HOMOPHOBIA to be together. Not ignoring homophobia!!!
- RIP Catherine O'Hara 😞
- My friend and colleague Lauren Herold interviewed me about being a fujoshi! www.autostraddle.com/why-has-heat...
- You think fujoshi is your ally? You merely adopted fujoshi. I was born into it. Moulded by it.
- Getting PhD apps from Chinese students who want to research Chinese social media... I know you didn't read my bio cuz why do you think I know anything about Weibo!!!!
- Yes, I have seen Hudson Williams's latest photoshoot for Wonderland. No, I am not okay. Thank you for respecting my privacy during this time.
- PUT THEM IN ACCURATE HOCKEY JOCKSTRAPS YOU COWARDS who said that
- I love Hudcon interviews cuz you can tell Connor is always trying so desperately to match Hudson's level of freak but he just can't. It's okay Connor. Every comedy duo needs a proverbial straight man (pun intended) for balance. It's yin and yang
- getting ready to trigger any of my students who went through IB in my slides on feminist epistemologies
- BEGGING Mona Awad to write some full on gay smut PLEASE!!!!!
- throwing an MLM sex scene into a book series with serious sapphic undertones...I think Mona might be One Of Us
- (fujoshis)
- People are really out here saying Hudson Williams is "white passing" I feel like someone (not me) needs to write about this form of white people being colourblind
- My controversial take of the day that I will not be taking feedback on is that Keanu Reeves and Hudson Williams are a great example of Wasian vs. wAsian
- About to do a social network analysis on all the love triangles on The Boyfriend season 2
- When they said he was walking for Dsquared2 this is EXACTLY what I pictured
- Hot take: the sisters in To All the Boys look nothing alike....but you know what, they cast those sisters the way that Hollywood casts white siblings (look nothing alike) and that's progress
- It's interesting how the fandom is attacking François, the only openly queer actor from the show, while simultaneously speculating about Connor and Hudson's sexuality.....
- If I had a nickel for every time Björk wrote an album about Matthew Barney, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
