K.W. Pang
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#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
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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.
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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
Reposted by K.W. Pang
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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
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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.
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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
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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....
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Pang, Ka Wei. “Queer Motherly Fantasy: The Sinophone Mom Fandom of Saint Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana.” In Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness, edited by Jamie J. Zhao, 1st ed., 177–200. Hong Kong University Press, 2023. doi.org/10.2307/jj.4....
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"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...
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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...
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