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

MeToo in Japan/East Asia Takarazuka & spectacle Yoshiya Nobuko & girls' aesthetics in prewar Japan BL/fandoms in global contexts Magical girls [screening: Sailor Moon] Otaku culture, moe, & other desires Lolita fashion & cosplay It’s broad & everything I love! Hope students love it too.

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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

Recent reads on the above + transformative justice: Crip Authorship Crip Negativity Brilliant Imperfection The Life Worth Living Beyond Survival We Will Not Cancel Us Just Care Crip Spacetime

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

All I'm doing is trying to write a short paragraph on each author, but yeah, the rest of my head is like "BOOK BOOK TRANSLATION TEACHING ARTICLE BOOK ABSTRACT BOOK." (When you try to do public intellectual stuff but are too exhausted from your actual work. 🫠)

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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

I'm looking for friendly exchanges, inspiration, collaboration, interviews, etc. I've chatted w/journalists for CNN, SCMP, TIME, The China Project, RTHK tv/radio and love to share my research/expertise. I'm also on IG + Threads (latter posting only in Chinese). Thanks! Please poke me, add me, etc.

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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

On Threads I say things but am held back slightly by every effort to write in Chinese. Before I went slightly viral on Twitter by ranting about diff issues, but that’s not my kind of negativity these days. 🤔 Social media affect is hard to manage.

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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

This is a dilemma for me because many who identify as non-binary are cis-passing. I simply don’t believe they/we should take up as much space. But right now, what is better in terms of solidarity? What are the politics & ethical dilemmas of how we identify & use our identities? (3/3)

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

👉Would that mean standing by trans ppl to fight harder in solidarity? 👉Would it mean jumping on board to take up more space & frame myself as a “victim” and extra marginalized in this moment when I’m not? It’s tempting, isn’t it, to find an easy path to getting sympathy. And toxic as f*ck. (2/3)

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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

Hmm, I’m not sure. Last year these might have been recorded or something, but I’d have to check. (Plus I’m writing a proposal but could easily get rejected. 🤷‍♀️)

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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

Aren’t journalists supposed to write about the truth? Aren’t they supposed to give voices to the voiceless? This sounds naive, but in HK I still mourn many things and dream about more journalism, that tries to do more. If you’re this kind of journalist, I want to know you.

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

I was also told: No complex narratives are allowed. Such as talking about how East Asian feminist movements are plagued with transphobia and other violence. Transphobia is AWFUL now in Taiwan, but who wants to write this story? It’s too confusing when Taiwan is held up as a bastion of human rights.

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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 · 16/11/2024

But it's clearly enough that it stresses the crap out of me. Please let's just not legitimatize feminism that has so often gone horribly wrong & hurt ppl in East Asia. And it's 100% disrespectful/arrogant to say, "Well, as US feminists we'll do it perfectly, so who give a f*ck."

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

From my perspective, it's not just about a niche Korean feminism, it's about hundreds of new/budding Chinese feminists inspired by ideas from 4B and often following them to be transphobic, homophobic, misandric, & exclusionary towards women not adhering to 4B. It's NOT all PRC feminists...

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

Which is to say, for me as a Taiwanese American based in HK who's come into contact with PRC students & feminists, I worry greatly when I see ANY public support of extremist feminist positions, esp. since there are so many Ch feminists around the world &/or newly coming to know feminism right now.

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

- Some Ch feminists (incl. queer ones such as cis lesbians/non-binary) say they're trans-friendly but only see TERFs as "another branch of feminism" & don't call them out. - There is genuine misandry on the Ch internet - I heard some feminists celebrated when seeing news of a young boy dying.

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

For example: - PRC feminist inspiration from 4B = women married to men are often treated with hostility for supporting the patriarchy - There is a lot of transphobia in Ch feminism, as is the case among feminists around the world. Some claim not to be transphobic but want "pure female-only" spaces.

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

There are Chinese feminists who are hardworking, brave, and deserve all our respect. But basically feminist ideas have erupted over the past decade or so, and many Ch feminist activists debate all kinds of questions that came up during the 2nd wave in the US. Some go down a reeeeally bad path.

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

Also, this extreme branch of Korean feminism is known for being highly transphobic, as well as homophobic. There is no sense of "queer solidarity" since many members discriminated against/excluded non-cis-women. Furthermore, these kinds of ideas have been very influential among PRC feminists.

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

But it's widely recognized that Megalia/Womad encourage actual misandry (hatred of men); this is ultimately not a queer/genuinely radical view since queer/feminist studies teaches us to recognize how individuals are embedded within systemic violence. It is not okay to simply hate/blame all men.

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

An example of an academic article to check out: Youngmi Kim wrote on Megalia & "digital populism" in "Mirroring Misogyny in Hell Chosǒn." One consideration is that such tactics are very accessible for women new to feminism to help them recognize recognizing discrimination against women.

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

Hi, thanks. I'm overwhelmed w/deadlines now so won't dig out many sources for now. But Korean studies scholars have cautioned "mirroring" tactics used by Megalia/similar feminists (reversing misogynistic statements to use against men) are limited in their ability to bring genuine positive change.

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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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