Gina Anne Tam

Excited to be heading to Vancouver in a couple days for #AAS2026! Hope all who read this find me to say hello (or check out the two cool panels I have the honor of being on!)

Hong Kong woman faces 2019 protest charges after returning from Australia Ami Chan Hui-ching, charged with possessing laser pointers and spray paint for illegal use in anti-government protests, released on HK$10,000 bail.

A Hong Kong woman who returned from Australia has been charged with carrying two laser pointers and three bottles of spray paint for illegal purposes during the 2019 anti-government protests.

Ami Chan Hui-ching, 21, was escorted to Eastern Court on Monday.

No it’s not good but it’s fine for daily driving and also it is an extremely fun car to drive. Even my toddler every time we get in she goes “oooooooo”

Just…don’t ask me it’s battery range and/or how long it takes to charge

Counterpoint: my Mustang Mach-e looks very cool and goes very fast 😎😎😎

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

It does not escape me that this illustrates the Trump/GOP/neo-Nazi apparatus working precisely as China is assumed to work.

It’s a little more complicated in China, and it’s a little more complicated here—but the distinction used to be obvious and, if this pattern holds, that is no longer true.

Y'all blew up an elementary girls school.

Need people to stop being weird about Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu. And also to understand what an athlete representing China can and cannot do, versus what an athlete representing US - for now - can and cannot do.

hello bsky, new person to follow! On #japan and beyond.

4/ I’ve started a second project on “An Extractivist History of the Nintendo Game Boy.” It explores the environmental costs of abstracting nature into digital worlds, linking the electronics industry in postwar Japan to intensive mining and drilling practices at home and abroad.

3/ ”Territorial Natures” argues that the fraught and urgent question of autonomous regions in the People’s Republic of China originate not only from Soviet internationalism, but also from Japanese fascism, which cultivated rural landscapes as authentic markers of ethnic identity in Inner Mongolia.

Territorial Natures A critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia.   Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. As imperial Japan expanded int...

2/ My first book, “Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question,” is coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social this August 2026.

You can find it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Bluesky #historians! Make sure you follow my brilliant friend Sakura (and pre-order her amazing book!)

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Look what I got in the mail! @catielila.bsky.social @jimmillward.bsky.social @jagevans.bsky.social and Taomo Zhou

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You are not alone. I just sent this to the spouse and about 10 minutes later from upstairs I hear him exclaim "Antman???"

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

I have positively mediocre Cantonese but I am very sad that his 快d啦 probably sounds better than mine

WHAT

UT-Austin to merge race, ethnic and gender study programs More than 800 students are pursuing degrees in the affected departments, which include African, Latino and gender studies.

This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

Domination is the only principle guiding the Trump movement, so the paradigmatic case of domination—gender violence—will inevitably arise as Trumpism’s core expression.

Called it out when it was evidence-free statements that all data went straight to the MSS. Gotta call it out when it’s equally evidence-free in another direction.

China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in Hong Kong Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent.

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent. n.pr/4rza6YL

Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons

More than ever, we need investigative reporting on China—work that takes time and resources to produce—not commentaries from YouTubers speculating about imminent economic collapse or elite political infighting in China.