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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · 5d

@suchmayer.bsky.social

📖 Full programme here: outburstarts.com/festival

🤎🤍🩶🖤💜💙🩵💚💛🧡

#Outburst2025 #Queer #QueerArt #QueerArtists
#Belfast

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · 5d

Cannot wait! Thank you SO

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · 13d

Alberto Poza will fly from Madrid to Taipei!

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · 18d

✨ A Taiwanese Ecoliterature Reader 🌿 Edited by Ian Rowen, Ti-han Chang, and Darryl Sterk 🏛️ Columbia University Press 🌱

🌸 Contents 🌸

🌱 Introduction, by Ian Rowen, Ti-han Chang, and Darryl Sterk

@columbiaup.bsky.social

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · 20d

congrats 😍

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · 20d

📖 Literature and Modern China
DOI: 10.54591/LZNW9057
✨ Utopia, Tongzhi, The Membranes
✍️ Chen Yufan
🧠This article explores the intersection of 🌈 queer utopianism, 🤖 cyborgian embodiment, and 📚 literary critique in Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes.

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View of Utopia, Tongzhi, The Membranes

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · 21d

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Sep 1

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇼 感謝白先勇清華文學講座團隊（團隊內除了各種資歷的老師之外，還有研究生助理喔）的邀約，我有幸將在2025年10月15日，在新竹清華校園，與 #楊佳嫻老師和 #羅仕龍老師同台分享 #台灣同志文學跟國際接軌的經驗與展望。

Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Aug 11

Understanding Taiwanese Literature and Films with Jenna Tang (Zoom) Starts Thursday, January 8th, 2026
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6-Week Taiwanese Literature & Film Seminar with Expert Jenna Tang

Explore Taiwanese literature & films in this 6-week online seminar. Learn from translator Jenna Tang. Indigenous voices, LGBTQ+ writers & more. Join now!

writing-workshops-org.myshopify.com

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Aug 4

🇨🇿 Interviewed at Svět Knihy 2025 in Prague, Czechia 🇹🇼 (on the Czech translation of Chi Ta-wei's novel, Membrany) 🏳️‍⚧️ 👽 www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fxh...

Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Aug 3

atravelingwordsmith.com/6-taiwanese-... 🇹🇼

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jul 7

book reviews: #amplitudes

Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · Jul 6

Now that it’s been about a month since the release of ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’… have a links roundup of interviews, press, recorded contributor events, etc!

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Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity – Link Roundup!

Now that it’s been about a month since the release of Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, I’ve done a little round-up of interviews, essays, contributor events, reviews, and sundry. So, h...

https://leemandelo.com/f/amplitudes-stories-of-queer-and-trans-futurity-–-link-roundup

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jul 7

amazing🏳️‍⚧️😍

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jul 4

come to visit Taipei!

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jul 3

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #女書店 Fembooks Taipei 現正展售 #跨性別小說家 @leemandelo.bsky.social 主編 #酷兒 #跨性別 #科幻小說選集《振幅》 ( #Amplitidues )紙本版 @erewhonbooks.bsky.social ！我的《#膜》續篇部分內容也收錄其中，感謝 Ariel Chu @ariel-chu.com 英譯。

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jul 1

#邱妙津 #倫敦

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Jun 30

Feminist #FilmSky & #translation #BookSky #xl8 crossover event: The Films of Qiu Miao-jin at Barbican, 16 Aug! This is a massive rarity, beautifully curated. DO NOT MISS.

@chitawei.bsky.social your influence on London's hot queer Taiwanese summer continues!

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

The Cinema of Qiu Miao-jin | Barbican

A memorial screening honouring Qiu Miao-jin, a trailblazer in Taiwanese queer literature and author of Notes of a Crocodile, marking 30 years since her untimely death.

www.barbican.org.uk

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jul 1

heart!!!

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jul 1

Dear @suchmayer.bsky.social , thank you. It’s moving—but heartbreaking—that the film will screen at Barbican. #QiuMiaojin took her life 30 years ago—this past June marked the 30th anniversary. I was interviewed, but like many other interviewees, I was nearly speechless in such a sad documentary.

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jul 1

#捷克媒體 @iROZHLAScz.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy
證實 #蕭美琴差點被暗殺。同媒體也曾報導 #布拉格書展 #台灣書攤被某國威脅事件。

此媒體隸屬捷克電台，可信度如同捷克版BBC。
🇹🇼 🇨🇿 #Czechia #Taiwan

可詳見我IG：https://www.instagram.com/p/DLjtuKzuLTC/

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jun 29

🌈 Dear friends at #ilclubdellibro
Grazie mille for your thoughtful 28 June 2025 review of #Membrana! 📚
🔗 Full review: www.ilclubdellibro.it/rubrica-lett...
With gratitude from 🇹🇼 ! Happy #PrideMonth 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤎🖤💜💛💚💙

Membrana: le prime forme di inclusività

Per il percorso dedicato al tema LGBTQIA+ la community sta leggendo Membrana di Chi Ta-Wei, uno dei primi esempi di inclusività nella narrativa cinese.

www.ilclubdellibro.it

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jun 26

🇹🇼🇨🇿 💬 In May 2025, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Magdalena Rytinová about The Membranes, Taiwanese literature, and Taiwan’s democratization.
📲 Read it here: www.iliteratura.cz/clanek/47640...
🇨🇿🇹🇼 Thanks to Book World Prague & all supporters of the event!

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jun 26

#monsoonwedding

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Jun 25

Feminist filmmakers make great films & raise great leaders!

TIL that Zohran Mamdani's mum is legendary filmmaker Mira Nair (MISSISSIPPI MASALA, MONSOON WEDDING, THE NAMESAKE).

a bride is looking at her reflection in a mirror while holding a garland of flowers .

Alt: a bride is looking at her reflection in a mirror while holding a garland of flowers .

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Jun 26

his mother is Mira Nair!!!! WOW (now we betray our age)

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