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Andrea Janku

@zamarginalities.bsky.social
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‘sinologist’ at soas.ac.uk/about/andrea-janku. me. things I care about. blurry photos now mostly on instagram.com/zamarginalities #ActuallyAutistic

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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A stunning performance of a rarely seen play: Ödön von Horváth’s Der jüngste Tag (1937) weareoldred.co.uk/whats-on/jud...
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Judgment Day – Old Red Lion Pub & Playhouse
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Punjabi princess who fought for women's rights www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #suffragettes
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The Indian princess who became a Suffragette in Victorian London
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was royal who became a key figure in London’s suffragette movement.
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘Not all silence is peaceful.’ A remarkable piece. #misogyny
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Nanzhao
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#HuangXueqin
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#遇真纪事 #EncounteringReality #ruralChina
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#HuangXueqin
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘mimic, or fall silent’ #舆论导向
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Chow Hang-tung's mother, Medina Chow thanked "everyone for standing with the activists and supporting them. "For today's verdict, you do not need to be ​overly saddened. Do not lose heart. And above all, do not feel guilty."" They are staying strong. Let's do so too.
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘One supporter who attended the sentencing told the Guardian: “A demonstration that lasted for more than 35 years without any problem is suddenly being seen as subversion.”’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Tiananmen Square vigil organisers jailed for seven years in Hong Kong
Pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were found guilty of ‘incitement to subversion’ in controversial national security case
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 08/09/2026
#Tibet Film Festival London returns 25–27 September for its sixth edition, exploring the theme of “Memories of Tibet” through films, personal stories, & cultural events, including Q&As, a UK premiere, & a short film competition. asianmoviepulse.com/2026/09/tibe... #filmfestival
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Tibet Film Festival London 2026 Announces Programme Exploring Memories of Tibet
Tibet Film Festival London returns for its sixth edition with a programme exploring the theme of Memories of Tibet. Tibet Film Festival London 2026 Announces Programme Exploring Memories of Tibet
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Afec @etudeschinoises.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
[Poste] Professeur-e assistant-e en sinologie (Chine moderne et contemporaine) afec.hypotheses.org/12472
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[Poste] Professeur-e assistant-e en sinologie (Chine moderne et contemporaine)
La Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Genève met au concours un poste de professeur-e assistant-e avec prétitularisation conditionnelle (tenure track) en sinologie (Chine moderne et contemporaine)...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026
UPDATE: less than two days after the closure of Have A Nice Stay, Hunter Bookstore, another independent bookstore that was raided by Hong Kong's National Security Police for incitement, announced on Instagram that they are unable to secure a lease renewal at their current physical location.
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Hong Kong's independent bookstores, a refuge for Chinese readers, are under threat
Independent bookstores in Hong Kong offer a window for mainland Chinese readers who seek ideas suppressed at home.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The fact this is his second NSL trial could really only be read as “we just want to lock the guy up for life”
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 01/09/2026
China’s response to the Tibet flood shows how #censorship has evolved: don’t just delete eyewitness footage, bury it beneath polished state media. The result is a disaster recast as a spectacle of government competence while questions of negligence disappear. p.dw.com/p/5JhKS
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How China buried Tibet flood images after Nepal disaster
In Tibet, a digital crackdown followed the deadly flood that has devastated communities along the China-Nepal border. Censors erased viral footage while Chinese state media flooded platforms with offi...
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
831 will germinate into calls for HKPF to be disbanded later on. After all, the HK government and the police had committed an act of terror on its own citizens. Whatever system that allowed this violence is not a system fit to stand. It all needs to burn. 我們不能回復正常, 因為原來的正常就是問題
Source: Telegram (Aug 2019)
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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On a day where we learn that Cofnas has been given his role back at the Uni, in some form, after seeming pressure from the US, it may be useful to read the lovely things people have written about Professor Jason Arday. A tonic, in a world funding hate. leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...
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Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 30/08/2026
China says 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries are among 546 people still missing after floods in #Tibet. The disclosure offers one of the clearest pictures yet of the disaster on the Chinese side of the border, where information remains tightly controlled www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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China Says 261 Foreigners From 23 Countries Are Missing in Tibet Flood
The disclosure offered one of the clearest pictures yet of the disaster on the Chinese side of the border, where authorities have released few details.
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#disaster #censorship
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Point #1 of Chow Hang-tung's 18 point mitigation statement:- "1. The 206-page judgment, after all, boils down to saying that pursuing democracy is a crime."
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 26/08/2026
"While such work was possible in an earlier era in China, under Xi Jinping, who took power in 2012, the room for artistic expression has contracted. The law that Gao was charged under was introduced in 2021, but the works used as evidence against him were created more than 15 years ago."
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds”
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
From when it was legal. (BTW, am surprised this video is still viewable in Hong Kong. And of course it's ironic that I should be surprised about this since it is a video of an event that was legal in Hong Kong at the time that it was filmed.)
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2011 June Fourth Incident 22nd anniversary assembly - Bloodstained Glory
YouTube video by WinderTP
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
While I don't think anyone expected a different verdict. It is still heart breaking. Free Chow Hang-tung Free Lee Cheuk-yan Free all Political Prisoners #FreeOurFriends
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Tiananmen vigil activists convicted under nat. security law, face up to 10 years prison
Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have been convicted of incitement to subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our in-depth look by Christelle Nguyen at how China is putting pressure on academics and scholarship in Europe. A must-read, based on more than 30 interviews. lingua-sinica.org/the-limits-o...
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The Limits of Talking About China in Europe – Lingua Sinica
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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Wanted to share this interview, Jason did before all of this back in Glasgow...talking about being autistic and black in academia. On his favourite music, things he liked. Think maybe having some things in his own words best. open.spotify.com/episode/1O33...
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Ruling Passions: 2. A discussion with Jason Arday
Ruling Passions · Episode
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A public enquiry is desperately needed here. Please consider signing goodlawproject.org/s/533647
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Great piece about a world gone by. #Shanghai #Jifeng #books
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 13/08/2026
Pretty neat exploration of storylines of possible climate futures by Dagomar Degroot and colleagues: after2c.com
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After 2C - Histories of the Future of Global Warming
An interactive exploration of five plausible, research-grounded climate futures, written as history papers looking back from the year 2100.
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women
In the five years since the Taliban’s return to power, the walls have been closing in on the women and girls of Afghanistan. A dozen women and girls have, at great risk to their safety, documented the...
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
From an Hong Kong Free Press four years ago about independent bookstores: "“We are five people who have stayed [in Hong Kong]… and we just want to establish a place that allows those people who have stayed, to stay” -- Have a Nice Day co-founder Kris Lau, about the bookshop's founders. 💔
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Amid exodus and societal shifts, Hong Kong's independent bookstores offer freedom of thought, community | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Amid otherwise neutral tones, a neon-orange sticker asserts its presence. A fixture of the chipboard desk that runs the length of the windowsill, it marks a distance of 1.5 metres from the wall – the ...
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The MTR stickers were one of the best series of protest art from 2019, I’ll try to do a thread one day. There are just so many.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Head held high. As she should.
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Photo memories of another recently raided bookstore: Hunter 獵人書店. They used to sell bilingual postcards featuring quotes fr @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s On Tyranny & #Havel ‘s quote, “Living in Truth,” could be spotted at many indie #bookstores in #HongKong w incredible creativity, humour, courage
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"My journey into anarchism did not start with textbooks or academic theories. It started with the heavy, suffocating weight of patriarchy" Worth reading this interview with Amora, an anarchist feminist fighter with a small local defence force in Myanmar. 1/
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Interview with Amora: An Anarchist Feminist of Myanmar's Resistance
Amora is an anarcha-feminist from Myanmar who has been involved in political activism for several decades. She is the “co-founder” and the current “financial officer” of the “Hero Warriors”, a local d...
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Writings about rage, ideas worth thinking through, available OA for another week or so, co-written by my fabulous colleague @ananenadovic.bsky.social Congratulations! #feminism #literature
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CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Today we remember #LiuXiaobo — not only as a #NobelPeacePrize laureate, but as a thinker who never stopped believing in humanity, conscience, and the power of peace. May “I have no enemies, no hatred” remain more than a quote — a legacy worth carrying forward. 🕊️ wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/07/blog...
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!
AI Refusal Statement
I did not use generative AI at any point in the production of this book or presentation, including the literature review, writing, editing, translation, organization, or any other task (e.g. brainstorming). To the extent that it is possible to know, I did not cite any studies that used generative AI.
Justification: GenAI technology is based on stolen labor, anti-solidarity between workers, class exploitation, structural racism, misogyny, environmental injustice, and climate destabilization.
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
To Your Ear is back with #NewMusic this Sunday 12 July 2026 at the Omnibus Theatre: #toYourEar #tyeCollective www.omnibus-clapham.org/whatson/to-y...
To Your Ear Music for strings and piano 
Join us for an evening of new music for strings, piano, electronics and objects, highlighting patient atmospheric sounds and playful experimentation. 
Featuring music by
Patrick Ellis
Cassandra Miller
Leo Chadburn
Sophie Stone
Matthew Gilley
& Ben Nobuto
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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 05/07/2026
Reading this spurred me to write a thread that got out of hand and became a post — not to downplay the imposition of Han norms, but just say this is an incomplete understanding of what "Sinicization" means in Xi's China. Beyond cultural and ethnic identity, it is about enforcing political identity.
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The Secret of Sinicization
As concerns spread over China's new ethnic unity law, let's reconsider what it really means to make individuals, cultures, and institutions "Chinese" in Xi Jinping's China.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This law is a real nightmare, creates a legal grounding for the state's assimilationist colonial campaigns
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Can China target critics abroad with its new 'ethnic unity' law?
Rights groups fear the new law gives Beijing legal authority to go after people beyond its borders.
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Hannah Theaker @htheaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As ever, @davidstroup.bsky.social says things more eloquently than I do. This is a great thread, but I would reiterate that this law simply institutionalises much that was already happening - the removal of non-Chinese education, the criminalisation of everyday ethnic and religious behaviours.
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Johnny Profane Âû @johnnyprofane1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What's the real cost of a corporate career if you’re autistic? I billed like a VP but paid a brutal "Autistic Tax." Navigating a corporate shark tank of unwritten rules & burnout. Here’s how this cost this #neurodivergent far too much. #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD autisticaf.me/2026/07/02/w...
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When Working For Someone Else… “Costs” Too Much.
What is the real cost of a corporate career when you’re autistic? I billed like a VP but paid a brutal “Autistic Tax” navigating a corporate shark tank of unwritten rules and sensory ov…
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
#ZhangYadi detained almost a year ago, still no information according to this report. #RahileDawut #Hada
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K.J. Elphinstone @neurofabulous.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Deficit or difference 🧵 Autistic deficit no.1: Preferring clear, direct communication. In the “negative or nothing” model of autism, this is framed as rudeness, and social failure. 2/13
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 15/06/2026
First large-scale #hydropower station on the Yarlung Tsangpo. A whole GT article, yet not a single #Tibetan voice. No mention of consultation, consent, displacement, or local debate. Climate action cannot become a justification for colonial extraction & exclusion. archive.is/2026.06.15-0...
Photo of Zangmu hydropower station: Chengdu Engineering Corporation Limited under Power China
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#typos bibliophagy
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Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
‘For Shen Shen, there is no contradiction between avoiding politics and a belief in gender equality.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Being a woman in China is getting harder. But in Chengdu, female-only spaces are flourishing
The socially relaxed city sees a cautious feminist revival in the face of growing alarm by authorities towards women who shun traditional roles
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Good answer from Johnson why remember the 2019 uprising in Hong Kong A million marched on the 9th June, 2 million (+1) a week later. A lot of those people are still there navigating all the shit HKSARG has pulled since, part of remembering 2019 is to remember those people too. not forgotten you💛🖤
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Anyway, just gotta post this fave 'Beijing workers entering Tiananment Square' shot which I think I saved from a @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social post
GONGREN LAILE! 
Working class men riding in to join the Tiananmen Square democracy protesters in 1989, perched and standing on top of what looks like a green army-surplus truck, in white headbands. Around them in the street are people on bicycles and street protesters with banners. Their banner announces that 'The workers have arrived'
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