The abrupt and unexplained deletion of a number of WeChat accounts dedicated to gay, transgender, asexual, and feminist concerns is the latest setback for LGBTQ+ and women’s free expression in China.
Disney has been branded hypocritical for publicly condemning Florida’s so-called «Don’t Say Gay» bill despite voluntarily cutting «overtly gay affection» from its films to appease homophobic foreign governments.
A new analysis of queer culture in contemporary Chinese art and literature and how it is driving political and social activism has been published by the pioneering University of Nottingham media studies scholar Hongwei Bao.
An appeals court in Kazakhstan on September 3 upheld a decision denying Feminita, a national feminist initiative, registration as a nongovernmental organisation (NGO). The group’s focus includes the rights of lesbian, bisexual, and queer women.
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