If you're attending #IASPR2025 this week, please do consider joining our panel on romantic cultures in Philippine media! The lectures will also be available online after the conference is finished! @iaspr.bsky.social

My latest article on #LGBTQ+ activism among Thai #BL idols has just been released free and open access in Celebrity Studies! The article explores how #EarthMix and #ZeeNunew used their celebrity platforms to advocate for marriage equality 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 doi.org/10.1080/1939...

My research paper " #Kpop Fandom’s Affective Role in Shaping Knowledge of Gender and Sexuality among #LGBTQ+ Fans in Australia and the Philippines " - written with Kelsey E. Scholes - is now available FREE and OPEN ACCESS in the journal Sexualities! 🏳️‍🌈💞🏳️‍⚧️ Link here: doi.org/10.1177/1363...

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 @khursten.bsky.social that explores why Korean media (especially #Kpop) has been so influential among #LGBTQ+ audiences around the world

I am unironically in love with these "Oppa" instant ramyun noodles made by Korean manufacturer Ottogi for the Vietnamese market! Look at the stylised #Kpop star oppas on the front... do they look similar to a famous idol group to anyone? 🤣

Looking forward to delivering a masterclass workshop on "Theorizing Asian Television Dramas" to junior scholars from across the Philippines at De La Salle University tomorrow. This is a follow-up to the keynote I delivered at a conference back in May to help presenters better theorize their work :)

These awesome students made a truly good video on #BL and some problems with tropes in the genre. With reference of course to work by @jameswelker.bsky.social and @tbaudinette.bsky.social #BoysLove #Manga #JapaneseManga youtu.be/o2YKi19N4zw?...

Love Stage!! and Problematic Tropes in BL Manga

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My article on the positive mental health benefits of #Kpop fandom for #LGBTQ+ fans during the COVID-19 pandemic - written together with PhD student and research assistant extraordinaire Kelsey E Scholes - has been accepted for publication next year in Kritika Kultura (archium.ateneo.edu/kk/)!

Preparing my slide deck for the Philippine K-Culture conference and reflecting on all the wonderful queer moments of #Kpop fandom I have experienced among #LGBTQ fans in Manila over half a decade of ethnographic research :)

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Looking forward to my upcoming trip to Manila where I will be discussing the impacts of Korean media - especially via #Kpop fandom - on #LGBTQ+ cultures in the Philippines at the first ever "Philippine K-Culture Conference" at University of the Philippines Diliman next week 🇵🇭💕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💕🇰🇷

Looking forward to my upcoming trip to Manila where I will be discussing the impacts of Korean media - especially via #Kpop fandom - on #LGBTQ+ cultures in the Philippines at the first ever "Philippine K-Culture Conference" at University of the Philippines Diliman next week 🇵🇭💕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💕🇰🇷

I've reached the pinnacle of my career because today I got to give my thoughts to a major Western news source about Moo Deng 💕🥰

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Excited to announce I will be heading to Chicago next year for #SCMS2025, for a roundtable with Katie Morrisey, Lori Morimoto, Areum Jeong, and Latina Vidolova on "Adapting Media Studies Pedagogy for Today's Global Media Ecosystem." Yes, I'll be talking about BL (as usual)! @scmstudies.bsky.social

Our panel "Adapting Media Studies Pedagogy for Today's Global Media Ecosystem" has been accepted for the @scmstudies.bsky.social 2025 conference! See you in Chicago! 🙌🏻 @katiedidnt.bsky.social @acafanmom.bsky.social @tbaudinette.bsky.social

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Now that my teaching year is over, it's time to dive back into my research on idol fandom in Japan! From "Otaku Culture and Feminism," to "Stan Culture Economy" and "Recosidering Consumer Society," I have a lot of reading to catch up on!

I wonder what Mieko Kawakami thinks hearing that Murakami Haruki has learnt nothing from her extremely pointed and much-needed critique of the sexism that structures his novels and his continued tendency to depict women via misogynistic paradigms? Source: amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Together with wonderful colleagues in Manila, next year I'll be drawing on my ethnography of Philippine media to put together a collection of essays on "kilig", the Philippine affective cultural response that shapes knowledge and experiences of romance 💖🇵🇭

Did you know that #Kpop has become an important space for international LGBTQ+ fans to make sense of their queerness? If you'd like to learn more, check out this open access article published in Sexualities that I wrote together with Kelsey E. Scholes! doi.org/10.1177/1363...

Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

The era of slave contracts in the #Kpop industry never ended, it just transformed. Labor law needs to be revised to support idols as workers (who should absolutely unionise), but the current SK government is mostly uninterested in broadening human rights legislation right now

Did you know that #Kpop has become an important space for international LGBTQ+ fans to make sense of their queerness? If you'd like to learn more, check out this open access article published in Sexualities that I wrote together with Kelsey E. Scholes! doi.org/10.1177/1363...

So excited that the advance copies have just arrived of my book!! Will be officially out (also in full open access) December 3rd from @ucpress.bsky.social!

Hello Bluesky! I'm a cultural anthropologist who explores the intersections of media fandom, gender and sexuality, and East-Southeast Asian relations from a queer perspective. If you'd like to get to know me, my two books are a good place to start!

Are you interested to learn how fandom for Thai #BL is building Thai soft power in Japan? Here is a lecture I gave earlier this year exploring the intersections of Thai BL and tourism campaigns for a Japanese audience! thomasbaudinette.com/2024/06/19/t...

The Role of “Boys Love” Idols in Thai Tourism Campaigns: Exploring a New Case Study for Contents Tourism Studies

Last month, I had the privilege to present a lecture at Hokkaido University’s Center for Advanced Tourism Studies about my new research project exploring the role of Thai BL in promoting tour…

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Is there a good fan studies starter pack? What about Korean Studies (I know I'm being lazy not searching myself, but I'm relying on the wonderful hivemind of colleagues here to help me get started 💕)

Also is there a Japanese studies starter pack yet?

Does anyone know if there's a quick way to follow-back all of my followers without having to manually click each and every one? 😅🤣

Are you interested to learn how fandom for Thai #BL is building Thai soft power in Japan? Here is a lecture I gave earlier this year exploring the intersections of Thai BL and tourism campaigns for a Japanese audience! thomasbaudinette.com/2024/06/19/t...

The Role of “Boys Love” Idols in Thai Tourism Campaigns: Exploring a New Case Study for Contents Tourism Studies

Last month, I had the privilege to present a lecture at Hokkaido University’s Center for Advanced Tourism Studies about my new research project exploring the role of Thai BL in promoting tour…

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Ever wanted to listen to me talk about BL for 4 hours? Now you can! 🤣 I've had the privilege to speak with FemmesReact about my research on the history, development, and activist potentials of BL. I've collated these talks into a single post here

Boys Love Conversations with Femmesreact!

Have you ever wanted to listen to me ramble on about Boys Love (mostly in Thailand, but other spaces too) for over four hours? Well, now you can! Over the past 6 months, I've had the really lovely opp...

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I am here to bring BL and K-pop nonsense to the timeline~~