While efforts are being made to address these imbalances, the question remains: What more can be done? @evecng.bsky.social (Ohio University) and Melissa A. Click (Gonzaga University) chart a way forward. Listen now! 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/3Muf... @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social

This month's Intersections newsletter is out! We look at how Chinese media covered a transgender murder case, the legal maze for cross-strait same-sex couples, and why Taiwanese feminists are reclaiming "buffet feminism."

INTERSECTIONS | May 29, 2025

A rundown of issues, analysis, and must-read stories about marginalized communities in the Sinophone landscape.

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(1) I'm delighted that my article, "'If I started to identify as a bird, would I stop being human?' Networked Transphobia in Lesbian Popular Culture Spaces" is out in Popular Communication! doi.org/10.1080/1540... There are 50 free e-copies available at this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YT3JP...

“If I started to identify as a bird, would I stop being human?” Networked transphobia in lesbian popular culture spaces

Transphobic discourses have become prominent even as media representations of gender non-conformity have increased, demonstrating the paradoxes of media visibility for the status of minority groups...

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The new issue of Signs is here! Engage with innovative scholarship that challenges, inspires, and redefines feminist thought. Read it here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/BA4glTQ

Hot off the presses! 2nd ed of Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Melissa Click, Suzanne Scott eds.). Happy to have a chapter on fandom and cancel culture included: doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Msg me if you’d like a copy :).

📣 2 x PhD scholarships @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social funded by the Migrant Futures Institute. 1st scholarship open to all subjects for UK applicants of migrant / refugee background. 2nd scholarship open to UK / international applicants on any migration topic. Please repost! @mediacomgold.bsky.social

Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships

The Graduate School is pleased to announce the call for two fully-funded Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships

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Just out! Special “Overcoming Structural Barriers to Integrate Global South Scholarship” issue of (open access) Online Media and Global Communication: degruyter.com/journal/key/... My coauthored article with Melissa Click on our editorial efforts at CCC is at www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Special Issue: Academic Publishing in Media and Communication Studies in the Digital Age: Overcoming Structural Barriers to Integrate Global South Scholarship

Volume 4, issue 1 of the journal Online Media and Global Communication was published in 2025.

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Excited to see this article by Eva Liu (who it is my fortune to have as an advisee) come out in the Chinese Journal of Communication! Eva applies a feminist analysis to otome gamers in China, and the article is rich in both data and theory.

Eva Liu@evaliumedia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Special thanks to my advisor, Dr. Eve Ng, for her invaluable feedback and guidance on this work! 🙏✨ @evecng.bsky.social Free online copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QHTQW...

It's exciting to see journals in my field move to Bluesky!

Feminist Media Studies@femmediastudies.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌟✨ Exciting News! ✨🌟Feminist Media Studies has officially migrated to Bluesky! 🎉 We are thrilled to continue fostering critical conversations and building community on this new platform. Be sure to follow us here and help us spread the word by sharing our page. 💬💜

Hello, Bluesky! Seems fitting that my first post is a sky one.