Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover

Above text: Photos of Eve Ng & Melissa Click. To the left: quotation mark icon filled with text “Listen now!” Text below image: Sustainability Matters. Episode 6. Eve Ng and Melissa A. Click: Rethinking Global South representation in scholarly publishing

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...

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INTERSECTIONS | May 29, 2025 A rundown of issues, analysis, and must-read stories about marginalized communities in the Sinophone landscape.

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."

(4) And Kimberly Dennin on the Save Warrior Nun campaign.

(3) Ting Guo & Aiqing Wang on a dangai series' transnational fandom; and Jamie Zhao on women's fandom around a Chinese game streamer and the "older sister" figure.

(2) This is in a special Queer Women's Fandom issue on coedited with Jamie Jing Zhao, which also features work by @iamjazzrae.bsky.social‬ on K-Pop group Mamamoo; Cherish Aileen Brillon & Patricia Mae Dacanay on Filipina comic icon Darna; Mengmeng Liu on Chinese GL fandom;

“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...

(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...

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

The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom | Melissa A. Click, Suzanne Sc This companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of emerging and established fan studies scholars to reflect on the state

URL for entire volume: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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 :).

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

📣 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

Many thanks to special issue coeditors Thaiane Oliveira, Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques, Manuel Goyanes, and @mohanjdutt.bsky.social

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.

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...

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.

Welcome!

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

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