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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hi, I’m a prof in HK teaching queer theory this semester (my regular course), but next semester I’m teaching a new course called “Queer Feminisms & Japan.” Topics (tentative): Cute culture in Japan & beyond Transphobia in Japan: transnational elements Li Kotomi & Taiwanese literature (Cont.👇)

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Want to write an article on Frieren. Want to do it now. Want my healing. (It’s true; some topics are healing, some are not.)

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sorry, I’ve been dealing with two small people who took over my apartment. 😕

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's #WIT month so I wanted to make a single IG post on Japanese women writers I've written/am writing about as a scholar/critic, and it's already too much... 🙈 Yoko Ogawa Banana Yoshimoto Hiromi Kawakami Kaori Ekuni Kotomi Li Sayaka Murata Aoko Matsuda Fumio Yamamoto Emi Yagi Mieko Kawakami

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Reading crip/disability/mad studies work almost everyday lately for my book project, and I wish more queer & feminist studies scholars and activists would read it too. Ableism in our communities is too common and completely normalized sometimes. “Care” shouldn’t just be a nice academic keyword.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hi, I might try this out for real... I'm a queer feminist studies scholar who works on Japanese women writers & girls' culture (manga! cuteness!); transnational Asian contexts via Jp-, Ch-, Eng-lang flows of theories + activisms; and crip/disability, mad, neurodiversity studies. I have opinions. 🙌

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Quoted briefly on cute culture in Hong Kong. As usual, what I actually said was a lot more complex (but they cited me very specifically on the Hong Kong context, which I'm not really an expert on - yet!). www.scmp.com/postmag/cult...

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The cult of cute: inside Sanrio’s multigenerational grip

Sanrio’s Kuromi and My Melody turn 20 and 50 this year. What explains the cross-generational pull of cute characters in a hyper-fast world?

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The 2nd-generation 外省人 plight of having political beliefs that are totally different from your family’s, and trying to ignore them politely since you know elderly Taiwanese will never listen to your opinion. 🤦‍♀️ I wonder how this compares to generation gaps in HK concerning politics.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

As someone with experience with mental illness, I only recently grasped how unwilling most ppl are to deal with anyone who doesn’t only have mild depression or anxiety. I’m sad to say I honestly don’t think most ppl understand what it means to criminalize mental illness & most ppl do not care.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

If I can’t feel a sense of community here: Maybe Bluesky is a good place to talk to myself…and stalkers? 🤔 (A logical train of thought & adheres to how the world is going, but sad.)

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Can anyone recommend good starter packs? 🥲🙏 Feminisms & queer politics, literature & translation, care, crip/disability, cute & girls’ culture, esp. stuff from Asian perspectives. Oh, and Japan, HK, Taiwan, mainland China stuff. I want to try this out but feels claustrophobic. Thanks!

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Brenna @oddlyenchanting.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

James Baldwin’s words are perfect at this time

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Seeing what Trump is doing everyday, the need for anger isn’t what’s first on my mind—I hope queers, feminists, all marginalized ppl can do their utmost to learn how to truly enact love & care. That is the real starting point for resistance & liberation.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Apropos of nothing, I’ve been thinking for a long time about what non-binary identity means to me, now even more since the attack on trans rights with the new US administration. If I openly identify as non-binary, whether or not I actively change my gender presentation, what would that mean? (1/3)

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Hi, are there any folks out there who want to be on a round table w/me at AAS to discuss how the US is going to hell & what we can try to do about it as scholars? DM me; maybe we’ll be on the same page. Esp. interested in making space for relatively junior ppl. Thanks. 🩶 Please share!

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Sorry that I am not here often. Too busy recovering from reading like a gazillion posts on sexual assault in Ch on Threads thanks to the bad behavior of Taiwan McDonald’s & the misogynists who make a pt of buying McD right after this news broke out. 🤮 We’re all suffering in different bubbles.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I research Japanese lit, but many writers are uncertain about LGBT+ issues, & some are transphobic. This is the case with writers in any language, but I wish I knew how to patiently, effectively help teach them. Despite my Yale PhD, I don’t know how many would trust me enough to be my students. 😅

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

wrote this a little while ago, an ode to a group chat I have with a couple of dear friends, @nicolechung.bsky.social & @crystalhanak.bsky.social <3 & glad to see it up today as part of a joint essay in the @washingtonpost.com

Dangerous Women by R. O. Kwon
author of THE INCENDIARIES and EXHIBIT

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Is there anything we can do to support you this week other than amplifying book-related things?

Rest up love

am trying to remind myself that all will be well, but obviously if anything happens, you must avenge me

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Was talking to a friend who said she was sad that LGBTQ in Western countries don’t seem to care about what’s happening in East Asia. There’s no desire to know or report in more mainstream media on what ppl here are dealing with. There’s a lack of solidarity.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Today we share resources on political protest: read.dukeupress.edu/...

Graphic featuring covers of "All Of Us or None" and "Fire Dreams." At the top are the words "Political Protests and Movements of Resistance" and "Read to Respond."

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hi, folks. If you haven't yet, please check out queer author Li Kotomi's public statement in which she comes out as trans after being bullied, harassed, & doxxed. Read & share widely. If you are a journalist or have contacts w/Eng-lang. media, please DM me (she agreed I can field inquiries).

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My latest anthology is Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire You can find out more about my book plus a free plain language version and discussion guide on my website disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/disabil...

Light beige background with a red flower on top, green leaves on both sides, underneath that flower is a purple one and right next to the purple is an orange flower. Under the purple and orange flowers are stems. Overlaid on top of the flowers in black bold letters: Disability Intimacy Essays on Love, Care, and Desire Edited by Alice Wong, Editor of Disability Visibility. Book cover by Madeline Partner.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I bought this cap from a HK artist based in NYC right before the US election. I think it’s about right for these times. You can see I’m hard at work with language practice. (Hi Canto speakers 😆🫰💛)

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

中文語境的朋友！For anyone who reads Chinese, I’ve been writing about feminist & queer issues on Threads in Chinese for awhile now. 👋🌈 Add me! I might post mainly in English here for an Eng-speaking audience, but I write on Threads in Ch to help expand discourses relatively limited in East Asia.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

#4B If journalists want to interview me on why I'm troubled by 4B: I'm a scholar w/a Yale PhD specializing in transnational Asian queer/feminist issues. I'm fluent in Japanese, Chinese, & studied Korean; I've lived in Asia for years (Japan, HK, Taiwan).

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I vaguely get the sense (trying not to read triggering material) there are a few journalists who have written decent pieces on this by now, plus other scholars speaking up. But this is my longer take on #4B and why I find it terrible to see any US feminists (whether white, Asian/POC) supporting it.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I wanted to write a poem on lying flat but I'm too busy lying flat to write/submit my poem on lying flat.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

What’s weird for me: Being bad at meetings & admin. I’m well-organized, but I’m not good at dealing w/a lot of budgets, rotating committees, etc. Plus it’s kinda funny ‘cause I’m like a gentle radical-leaning liberal, but I’ll say stuff & then be like oops. 😂 (But also I’m adding spice to meetings?)

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

(Not unrelated to #4B ) My talk in Taipei on 11/22. "East Asian Feminisms and Their Affective Worlds: Anger, Humor, and Iyashi Representation" 亞洲女性主義的情動世界：憤怒，幽默，和療癒的表現 Open to the public! 11/22/2024, 3:30–5:00 PM 1F DFLL Conference Room, Gallery of University History, 校史館1樓外文系會議室 (NTU) (1/6)

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Ola Jönsson @madwrist.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

AK Press is offering some free e-books right now! 👉 akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html

Six book covers from publisher AK Press.
Top row from top left: No Pasaran!, Emergent Strategy, Practicing New Worlds.
Down row from left: Joyful Militancy, The Operating System, Street Rebellion

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

US feminists: Please stop promoting #4B. Please do not validate transphobic/homophobic, generally violent feminists in East Asia. 4B might be niche in South Korea, but for example, there are a large # of PRC feminists (around the world) who still follow these toxic ideas.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

I get why we’re saying this during AAPI Month, but we shouldn’t have to convince AsAm’s to care about Palestine bec it’s an Asian issue. We should care out of a basic sense of humanity. If you are AsAm & don’t, it’s not even about some kind of Asian umbrella solidarity—you fail as a person.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Omg Asian Americanists, why do you have to throw so many parties!! I’m INFJ!! 😵‍💫😖 #aaas

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Going back to speak at Yale is weirdly intimidating. Clearly I have some unresolved issues lol.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 16/04/2024

"NPR culture encouraged an editorial fixation on finding the exact middle point of the elite political and social thought, planting a flag there, and calling it objectivity."

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

Recently some people very warmly told me: You are already a Hongkonger. Thank you. 我好鍾意香港。This event is also my way of wanting to share with people the beauty, warmth, & hope that I still find in Hong Kong, despite everything.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

En-yi’s Queer Study: Yale U Edition Thurs, April 18, 4:00-5:30 pm “Is Hong Kong dead?” Listen to Dr. Grace En-yi Ting (HKU) share about life-changing experiences as a queer feminist scholar & teacher in Hong Kong, with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social (Yale Law School) as moderator & respondent.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

My last lecture in the US. “Politics of Encounter: From Japanese Literary Studies to the Sinophone” 4/18, 12 pm: Yale University What does it mean to narrate a queer feminist ethical praxis of “encounter” and diaspora bridging disciplines, languages, & politics that rarely meet…?

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Are there other women of color academics out there who are exhausted when students are "woke" enough to see injustice elsewhere but have no clue how it affects the classroom & everything in the academy? Especially if part of your job is to teach exactly on social justice issues.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

My talk in April at Yale: “Politics of Encounter: From Japanese Literary Studies to the Sinophone” 4/18, 12 pm What does it mean to narrate a queer feminist ethical praxis of “encounter” and diaspora bridging disciplines, languages, and politics that rarely meet in academic writing or activisms?

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Politics of Encounter: From Japanese Literary Studies to the Sinophone | The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University

What does it mean to narrate a queer feminist ethical praxis of “encounter” and diaspora bridging disciplines, languages, and politics that rarely meet in academic writing or activisms?

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Does anyone here know about the hellscape in Threads where if you’re Tw/HKer & say anything to criticize Ch feminists, you get slammed bec: - All Ch women suffer more - Men are bad so anything Ch feminists do is ok - How dare you not perfectly illustrate the Ch feminist mvt in this word count 😅😅😅

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

I signed up for my Ohio absentee ballot as a Democrat but am too disgusted right now to know how to productively handle this. Any thoughts or advice from ppl? 🤦‍♀️ (FYI haven’t lived in Ohio since 2018 but just trying to do some good although I don’t keep up with things there)

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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

I'm very very very excited to be able to announce that next year, one of my most longheld dreams is coming true: Fumio Yamamoto, a writer I've loved dearly forever, is finally coming to English (and I get to translate her!) For those familiar with her in Japanese, this is 「プラナリア」

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Virago signs 'feminist touchstone' from late author Fumio Yamamoto

Virago has signed The Dilemmas of Working Women, a "feminist touchstone" originally published in Japan in 2000, from the late Fumio Yamamoto and translated by Brian Bergstrom.

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Hi, Asian American studies. 👋 See you there. 🌈🌺

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