In early December 2022, 150 people gathered together at the virtual symposium “Queering the Korean Wave” (#kpop, #kdrama, and more!) I organised together with Dr. Khursten Santos ( ꒪ͧ-꒪ͧ) 1/9. The recorded sessions are now available to listen here #QueerKoreanWave thomasbaudinette.com/2022/12/31/qtk…

Within her presentation at our panel on gay and bisexual men's engagement with BL manga history and culture, Prof Fujimoto Yukari (藤本由香里　日本帰国) discusses how seminal gay manga writers such as Tagame Gengoroh got their start within #BL magazine ROMAN June

My first English paper is out! I develop Dallas Smythe’s cultural screening and explore the politics of tech and class in Socialist China through two historical movements. Hope it would interest scholars in PRC history, labor, STS, and critical pedagogy. doi.org/10.1080/175447…

Attending #IAMCR2024 in🇳🇿🥝to present and chair various #Gender and #Communication Section panels over the next few days on #MeToo #celebrity #fandom and #TFSV starring Shobha rosemary overell ♐️ wien CASMIDA Catch us around! Details👇 IAMCR #IAMCR24 NUS Communications and New Media

👋Hi! Do you undergo #menstruation / #periods (#生理 / #月経) and use menstrual/period-tracking apps (#アプリ)? If so, please participate in my survey on #PTAs in #Japan (#日本!)🩸🇯🇵 Link:📍tinyurl.com/PTAsInJAPAN For more details on my PhD project, visit the link in my bio.✨

Excited for #IAMCR24 Christchurch 🇳🇿2024! Join me to explore how Chinese young women reshape romance and labour through 2.5-dimensional practices of otome gaming 🎮 #Cosplay #OtomeGames #FeministGameStudies IAMCR #IAMCR24 NUS Communications and New Media Details👇

#TFSV Virality, the price of silence, porn, or polemic nation-state happening at 10:30am tomorrow with CASMIDA Chris Dietzel @kaitlynn_mendes and many more in Te Pae Conway 4! #IAMCR2024 #IAMCR24

Get ready to have your mind blown 🤯 Can't wait for Jingyi Xie's presentation at #IAMCR2024 on how early adopters are changing the game with alternative proteins! 🌱🔬👩‍🔬 #CNM #NUSResearch

Get ready to be wowed as Ziyi Wang takes the stage at #IAMCR2024! 🌟 She'll be diving into the digital world of Guangxi and its platform economy! 🌐💼 Let's learn together! 📚🚀 #CNM #NUSResearch

💖Proud to unveil the amazing cover of my first monograph #EmergentGenders Living Otherwise in #Tokyo's Pink Economies🏳️‍⚧️Special thanks to @lizault, team Duke University Press & a long list of folks in my acknowledgements. Pre-order➡️dukeupress.edu/emergent-gende… Get 30% off with code E25MHSHO

Excited to share my new co-authored article with Tingting Liu 🎮!!! We explore how Chinese otome games’ interface design caters to young women’s erotic desires, navigating heteropessimism in a patriarchal society. 👉doi.org/10.1177/155541… #FeministGameStudies #OtomeGames NUS Communications and New Media

Happy to announce the publication of "Queering the Korean Wave", a special issue of The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture edited by myself and Dr. Khursten Santos ( ꒪ͧ-꒪ͧ) 1/9 that explores why Korean media (especially #Kpop) has been so influential among #LGBTQ+ audiences around the world

🌟 New pub alert! 🌟 Excited to share our latest article with Michelle Ho (she/her) @michellehsho.bsky.social in this special issue! We examine China's crackdown on BTS and #Kpop shipping practices as a lens to explore gender, sexuality, and nationalism. Read more here 👉 intellectdiscover.com/content/journa… NUS Communications and New Media

I'm overwhelmed by the interest everyone has shown our special issue on queering the Korean Wave! Here's a summary of the contributors' articles and arguments about the power of #Kpop to support #LGBTQ+ fans around the world 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

📚Advance copies of #EmergentGenders🏳️‍⚧️from Duke University Press have arrived ahead of publication day! Get yours today➡️dukeupress.edu/emergent-gende… (30% off with code E25MHSHO) Read introduction🆓ow.ly/3saJ50UnQWs 📖🐾model credit: @dog_tormarley (IG)🐶labor paid for in treats

So proud of the @queermeninsg team! First time we will present our findings at two conferences at the same time and during #pridemonth too🌈🦄This is the Nordic conference on masculinity research, #Men and #Masculinities in Transition hosted by Stockholm University and NORMAS NUS Communications and New Media

Happy to present my paper “Still Pay-to-Love”: Tthe Ludonarrative Tension of Free-to-Play Gacha in Otome Games in the #ICA25

🎓I passed my PhD oral defence last week! Thanks to my supervisor Michelle Ho (she/her) @michellehsho.bsky.social, examiners Renyi Hong, Dr Alex Mitchell, and all peers and friends for their support throughout this challenging yet rewarding journey. Onward! NUS Communications and New Media #PhD #otome #feministgamestudies #BabyStepsCount