Thinking about visual media and sexual science, history of attention, and some other stuff, like decentralizing film and media studies:)https://bsky.app/profile/wanmingyuan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/wanmingyuan.bsky.social/post/3mu2oo3oiu22oJust read this very powerful expression: ‘queer theory is the study of how the futureless last.’ (Ensor 2025:10) WOW!27 Aug 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:7cleytjcnp565rca6pcv5jwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2oo3oiu22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/wanmingyuan.bsky.social/post/3mt34sl3uhk2wI‘m so enraged. You simply cannot win. You are constantly hold up against some unachievable standards just because you are marked as different. You have to be malleable , flawless, palatable, a token for the institution and a representative of your community. And that’s still not good enough.14 Aug 2026 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:7cleytjcnp565rca6pcv5jwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt34sl3uhk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/wanmingyuan.bsky.social/post/3mfexg55pls2pOh this was actually accepted for publication by them lol I did have to add a new text but glad it paid off:) [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Feb 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:7cleytjcnp565rca6pcv5jwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfexg55pls2phttps://bsky.app/profile/wanmingyuan.bsky.social/post/3mdj46hlfqc2xThe last two minutes of Park Chan-Wook’s No Other Choice? Wow that was brilliant—sending chills up my spine28 Jan 2026 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:7cleytjcnp565rca6pcv5jwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdj46hlfqc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/wanmingyuan.bsky.social/post/3mcsvcylqss2gRecently experienced gatekeeping by Western scholars—was accused of writing like an activist rather than an academic. This narrative is not even original. Is this perhaps what every non-white researcher working on ethnic and critical race studies has to go through in Western academia??20 Jan 2026 00:23 +0000at://did:plc:7cleytjcnp565rca6pcv5jwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcsvcylqss2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/wanmingyuan.bsky.social/post/3ma6zsq75sc25I remember seeing him on stage earlier this year at the Berlinale, when he took his Satanische Sau to the festival. Listening to him talk I was struck by how energetic and full of life he was, which shines through his filmmaking as well—Satanische Sau is just as bold and defiant. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Dec 2025 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:7cleytjcnp565rca6pcv5jwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma6zsq75sc25https://bsky.app/profile/wanmingyuan.bsky.social/post/3m4t3shjadk2xI’ve been going to the cinema a lot lately. It’s funny how I never had time to watch many films when I was writing my dissertation in film studies… like they say: never make your hobbies your career. It just spoils all the fun.04 Nov 2025 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:7cleytjcnp565rca6pcv5jwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4t3shjadk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/wanmingyuan.bsky.social/post/3ly4nqr63qc2mHouse viewing is so stressful… it’s probably a bad idea to do thesis submission, job applications, and house viewings at the same time 😭05 Sep 2025 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:7cleytjcnp565rca6pcv5jwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly4nqr63qc2m