Gina Anne Tam
@dgtam86.bsky.social
Historian of Modern China at Trinity University (focus on language, identity, gender, protest, Hong Kong); author of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960; NCUSCR PIPVII 2021-2023; Wilson Fellow 2022-2023. 4th-gen Italian-American
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The arrests in Hong Kong right now are déjà vu for mainlanders like me who were active in civil society in the 2000s: citizens demanding investigations and accountability after public disasters are met not with answers, but arrests and intimidation. #mainlandization #香港加速内地化
Inmediahk reports that HK university student Miles Kwan, who was seen handing out fliers linking to a petition demanding an independent investigation and accountability for the Tai Po fire was detained and taken to the police station. The online petition and related media has since been deleted.
November 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The arrests in Hong Kong right now are déjà vu for mainlanders like me who were active in civil society in the 2000s: citizens demanding investigations and accountability after public disasters are met not with answers, but arrests and intimidation. #mainlandization #香港加速内地化
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I don’t know how much it must be said and why so-called international media seems to be so bad at it even now, but talk to Hongkongers about what is happening Hong Kong, not “experts” thousands of miles away
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I don’t know how much it must be said and why so-called international media seems to be so bad at it even now, but talk to Hongkongers about what is happening Hong Kong, not “experts” thousands of miles away
"If you’re an instructor at Texas Tech, you can extol fascism; but you cannot wonder aloud whether a mutation to the SRY gene on the Y chromosome makes a person neither male nor female."
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Professor: Texas used to have universities
Former Texas Tech professor takes issue with the actions of Texas universities to restrict what topics can be discussed. Doing so makes them something other...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"If you’re an instructor at Texas Tech, you can extol fascism; but you cannot wonder aloud whether a mutation to the SRY gene on the Y chromosome makes a person neither male nor female."
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My friend Jake (that’s Dr. Beck to you!) on the crisis in Texas universities.
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Professor: Texas used to have universities
Former Texas Tech professor takes issue with the actions of Texas universities to restrict what topics can be discussed. Doing so makes them something other...
www.dallasnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My friend Jake (that’s Dr. Beck to you!) on the crisis in Texas universities.
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The authorities said flammable netting and foam boards may have fueled Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in nearly 70 years, killing at least 75 people.
Hong Kong’s Worst Fire in Decades Fuels Scrutiny of Safety Lapses
The authorities said flammable netting and foam boards may have fueled the city’s deadliest blaze in nearly 70 years, killing at least 65 and prompting arrests.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The authorities said flammable netting and foam boards may have fueled Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in nearly 70 years, killing at least 75 people.
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The @the-independent.com particularly bad. A commentary by an editor (in Delhi?) calling for a ban on bamboo scaffolding and article interviewing experts in Australia. HK media reporting widely about the use of sub-standard plastic netting, and officials have mentioned styrofoam boards on windows.
International media, you can do better than this.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The @the-independent.com particularly bad. A commentary by an editor (in Delhi?) calling for a ban on bamboo scaffolding and article interviewing experts in Australia. HK media reporting widely about the use of sub-standard plastic netting, and officials have mentioned styrofoam boards on windows.
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This 2024 post from the DAB’s Peggy Wong is quickly becoming infamous.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This 2024 post from the DAB’s Peggy Wong is quickly becoming infamous.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
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Further political context: In the 2019 District Council elections, all 19 of the elected seats of Tai Po District Council were won by "yellow" (i.e., Hong Kong pro-democracy) candidates. The pro-Beijing camp was completely wiped out bar for the two ex officio members of the 21 person strong body.
This 2024 post from the DAB’s Peggy Wong is quickly becoming infamous.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Further political context: In the 2019 District Council elections, all 19 of the elected seats of Tai Po District Council were won by "yellow" (i.e., Hong Kong pro-democracy) candidates. The pro-Beijing camp was completely wiped out bar for the two ex officio members of the 21 person strong body.
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International media, you can do better than this.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
International media, you can do better than this.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
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The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
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Taking a moment from #aarsbl25 to celebrate this recently award-winning #hongkong film #Queerpanorama 眾生相. #Queer and #Buddhist at the same time (each trans-boundary encounter contributes to the making of the protagonist’s sense of identity).
#goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism
#goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Taking a moment from #aarsbl25 to celebrate this recently award-winning #hongkong film #Queerpanorama 眾生相. #Queer and #Buddhist at the same time (each trans-boundary encounter contributes to the making of the protagonist’s sense of identity).
#goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism
#goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism
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I did a Q&A with Violet Feng on her new film:
Violet Feng's "The Dating Game" follows a romance coach in Chongqing and three of his students. In this Q&A, Feng talks about:
• China's gender imbalance
• 'Left behind' children
• AI boyfriends in China
• Pick up artist culture & global crises of masculinity
• China's gender imbalance
• 'Left behind' children
• AI boyfriends in China
• Pick up artist culture & global crises of masculinity
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I did a Q&A with Violet Feng on her new film:
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Under the Trump administration, many NEH programs have been ended, 2/3 of the staff along with the scholarly council fired, and most of the money that has been given out as noncompetitive awards given to handpicked recipients...
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Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Under the Trump administration, many NEH programs have been ended, 2/3 of the staff along with the scholarly council fired, and most of the money that has been given out as noncompetitive awards given to handpicked recipients...
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
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This is academic censorship, full stop.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is academic censorship, full stop.
Delighted that our Decolonizing Chinese History Roundtable is now available in Chinese translation as a book! Thanks to the wonderful team at Uli books and for my brilliant co-authors @jimmillward.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social Taomo Zhou, and James Evans
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November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Delighted that our Decolonizing Chinese History Roundtable is now available in Chinese translation as a book! Thanks to the wonderful team at Uli books and for my brilliant co-authors @jimmillward.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social Taomo Zhou, and James Evans
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Super excited to see #Decolonzing Chinese History published in Taiwan! Congratulations @dgtam86.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social!!
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Super excited to see #Decolonzing Chinese History published in Taiwan! Congratulations @dgtam86.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social!!
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
It's impossible to know exactly how this decision was made right now, but this is both a sad loss for Texas students and another piece of evidence that critical gender and racial analysis at universities is precarious, dangerous, and becoming more so every day.
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TCU to close departments dedicated to women, gender and race studies
Two departments will be shuttered after this year. Courses that remain intact will move under the umbrella of the English department.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's impossible to know exactly how this decision was made right now, but this is both a sad loss for Texas students and another piece of evidence that critical gender and racial analysis at universities is precarious, dangerous, and becoming more so every day.
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...
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No Kings-San. Antonio, TX
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
No Kings-San. Antonio, TX
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Ideas for the @madeinchinajournal.com piece were partly spurred by an earlier conversation I had with @dgtam86.bsky.social and Abigail Coplin on gender and STEM in China, hosted by @ncuscr.bsky.social on the 30th anniversary of the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in fall 1995:
Gender, Policy, and Progress: Women in China’s STEM Fields
VIDEO: Yangyang Cheng and Gina Tam trace how government policy, economic transitions, and social norms have shaped the evolving landscape for women in China, especially in STEM fields.
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October 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ideas for the @madeinchinajournal.com piece were partly spurred by an earlier conversation I had with @dgtam86.bsky.social and Abigail Coplin on gender and STEM in China, hosted by @ncuscr.bsky.social on the 30th anniversary of the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in fall 1995:
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Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin - from someone growing up internalizing the stigma associated with our native dialect chenchenzhang.net/2025/10/05/s...
Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin
On why re-examining our “dialects” is about resisting hierarchies, opposing discrimination, and pursuing linguistic justice, rather than cultural “orthodoxy”.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin - from someone growing up internalizing the stigma associated with our native dialect chenchenzhang.net/2025/10/05/s...
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A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by deporting noncitizen student activists. nyti.ms/4mG1pck
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by deporting noncitizen student activists. nyti.ms/4mG1pck
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i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
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“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.
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Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
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September 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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