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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · Jul 29

While efforts are being made to address these imbalances, the question remains: What more can be done? @evecng.bsky.social (Ohio University) and Melissa A. Click (Gonzaga University) chart a way forward.

Listen now! 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/3Muf...

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Above text: Photos of Eve Ng & Melissa Click. To the left: quotation mark icon filled with text “Listen now!” Text below image: Sustainability Matters. Episode 6. Eve Ng and Melissa A. Click: Rethinking Global South representation in scholarly publishing

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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · May 29

This month's Intersections newsletter is out! We look at how Chinese media covered a transgender murder case, the legal maze for cross-strait same-sex couples, and why Taiwanese feminists are reclaiming "buffet feminism."

INTERSECTIONS | May 29, 2025

A rundown of issues, analysis, and must-read stories about marginalized communities in the Sinophone landscape.

linguasinica.substack.com

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · May 28

(4) And Kimberly Dennin on the Save Warrior Nun campaign.

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · May 28

(3) Ting Guo & Aiqing Wang on a dangai series' transnational fandom; and Jamie Zhao on women's fandom around a Chinese game streamer and the "older sister" figure.

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · May 28

(2) This is in a special Queer Women's Fandom issue on coedited with Jamie Jing Zhao, which also features work by @iamjazzrae.bsky.social‬ on K-Pop group Mamamoo; Cherish Aileen Brillon & Patricia Mae Dacanay on Filipina comic icon Darna; Mengmeng Liu on Chinese GL fandom;

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · May 28

(1) I'm delighted that my article, "'If I started to identify as a bird, would I stop being human?' Networked Transphobia in Lesbian Popular Culture Spaces" is out in Popular Communication! doi.org/10.1080/1540... There are 50 free e-copies available at this link:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YT3JP...

“If I started to identify as a bird, would I stop being human?” Networked transphobia in lesbian popular culture spaces

Transphobic discourses have become prominent even as media representations of gender non-conformity have increased, demonstrating the paradoxes of media visibility for the status of minority groups...

www.tandfonline.com

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · Apr 2

The new issue of Signs is here! Engage with innovative scholarship that challenges, inspires, and redefines feminist thought. Read it here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/BA4glTQ

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · Apr 1

URL for entire volume: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom | Melissa A. Click, Suzanne Sc

This companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of emerging and established fan studies scholars to reflect on the state

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · Apr 1

Hot off the presses! 2nd ed of Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Melissa Click, Suzanne Scott eds.). Happy to have a chapter on fandom and cancel culture included: doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Msg me if you’d like a copy :).

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Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social · Mar 19

📣 2 x PhD scholarships @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social funded by the Migrant Futures Institute. 1st scholarship open to all subjects for UK applicants of migrant / refugee background. 2nd scholarship open to UK / international applicants on any migration topic. Please repost! @mediacomgold.bsky.social

Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships

The Graduate School is pleased to announce the call for two fully-funded Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · Mar 18

Many thanks to special issue coeditors Thaiane Oliveira, Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques, Manuel Goyanes, and @mohanjdutt.bsky.social

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · Mar 18

Just out! Special “Overcoming Structural Barriers to Integrate Global South Scholarship” issue of (open access) Online Media and Global Communication: degruyter.com/journal/key/...
My coauthored article with Melissa Click on our editorial efforts at CCC is at www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Special Issue: Academic Publishing in Media and Communication Studies in the Digital Age: Overcoming Structural Barriers to Integrate Global South Scholarship

Volume 4, issue 1 of the journal Online Media and Global Communication was published in 2025.

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · Dec 4

Excited to see this article by Eva Liu (who it is my fortune to have as an advisee) come out in the Chinese Journal of Communication! Eva applies a feminist analysis to otome gamers in China, and the article is rich in both data and theory.

Eva Liu @evaliumedia.bsky.social · Dec 2

Special thanks to my advisor, Dr. Eve Ng, for her invaluable feedback and guidance on this work! 🙏✨ @evecng.bsky.social

Free online copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QHTQW...

When feminist awareness clashes with romance in games: a feminist reception study of otome gamers in China

“Otome games” refers to digital games specifically developed for and marketed to women, in which they can develop romantic relationships with virtual male characters. Existing literature has analyz...

www.tandfonline.com

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · Nov 21

Welcome!

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · Nov 19

It's exciting to see journals in my field move to Bluesky!

Feminist Media Studies @femmediastudies.bsky.social · Nov 19

🌟✨ Exciting News! ✨🌟Feminist Media Studies has officially migrated to Bluesky! 🎉 We are thrilled to continue fostering critical conversations and building community on this new platform. Be sure to follow us here and help us spread the word by sharing our page. 💬💜

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Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hello, Bluesky! Seems fitting that my first post is a sky one.

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