Mingyuan Wan
@wanmingyuan.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Film Studies & Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge
Writing about Queer Cinema and Migration; also working on Trans Cinema and German Visual Culture:)
Writing about Queer Cinema and Migration; also working on Trans Cinema and German Visual Culture:)
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Humanities where the cool jobs at
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Humanities where the cool jobs at
I’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.
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’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.
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When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
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Our current exhibition is based around events happening locally to mark Black History Month, with a focus on audio/visual culture, from music and art to black divas throughout history.🎨🎼
Find out more about the events still happening across Cambridge via the link in our bio!
Find out more about the events still happening across Cambridge via the link in our bio!
October 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Our current exhibition is based around events happening locally to mark Black History Month, with a focus on audio/visual culture, from music and art to black divas throughout history.🎨🎼
Find out more about the events still happening across Cambridge via the link in our bio!
Find out more about the events still happening across Cambridge via the link in our bio!
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Really want to write something about the Mamdani campaign’s use of the close-up + direct address as a way to mediate particularity and identity.
This is not a flattened universal spectatorial position—viewers become MORE aware of their own identity, not less. And curiously that informs solidarity.
This is not a flattened universal spectatorial position—viewers become MORE aware of their own identity, not less. And curiously that informs solidarity.
October 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Really want to write something about the Mamdani campaign’s use of the close-up + direct address as a way to mediate particularity and identity.
This is not a flattened universal spectatorial position—viewers become MORE aware of their own identity, not less. And curiously that informs solidarity.
This is not a flattened universal spectatorial position—viewers become MORE aware of their own identity, not less. And curiously that informs solidarity.
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I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out
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Tomorrow is the first event in the Research Seminar Series I've convened with Oliver Dixon, for Cambridge Film and Screen. Very excited for a busy term ahead, all welcome!
October 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Tomorrow is the first event in the Research Seminar Series I've convened with Oliver Dixon, for Cambridge Film and Screen. Very excited for a busy term ahead, all welcome!
House viewing is so stressful… it’s probably a bad idea to do thesis submission, job applications, and house viewings at the same time 😭
September 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
House viewing is so stressful… it’s probably a bad idea to do thesis submission, job applications, and house viewings at the same time 😭
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.
As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter
Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.
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Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
July 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Miriam Margolyes earlier this week for @bigissue.com. 🎤
The full interview will be out soon, but due to the latest news on Palestine today, I thought I’d share this clip early. 👇
Miriam Margolyes: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish”. 💬
The full interview will be out soon, but due to the latest news on Palestine today, I thought I’d share this clip early. 👇
Miriam Margolyes: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish”. 💬
July 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I had the pleasure of interviewing Miriam Margolyes earlier this week for @bigissue.com. 🎤
The full interview will be out soon, but due to the latest news on Palestine today, I thought I’d share this clip early. 👇
Miriam Margolyes: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish”. 💬
The full interview will be out soon, but due to the latest news on Palestine today, I thought I’d share this clip early. 👇
Miriam Margolyes: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish”. 💬
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IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)
July 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)
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Look, I get it. Thanks THI for running these numbers. But it’s just so frigging depressing to measure scholarship and learning by $$. We Humanitarians profit the world in other ways too. 😔
“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...
The Humanities Really Do Produce a Profit – The Humanities Institute
thi.ucsc.edu
July 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Look, I get it. Thanks THI for running these numbers. But it’s just so frigging depressing to measure scholarship and learning by $$. We Humanitarians profit the world in other ways too. 😔
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France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.
“The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved.″
France has Europe’s largest Jewish population & largest Muslim population in western Europe.
“The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved.″
France has Europe’s largest Jewish population & largest Muslim population in western Europe.
French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.
apnews.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.
“The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved.″
France has Europe’s largest Jewish population & largest Muslim population in western Europe.
“The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved.″
France has Europe’s largest Jewish population & largest Muslim population in western Europe.
“We love your argument but we hate your text. Can you do this on a different (group of) text(s)”
How do you figure I came up with this argument?
How do you figure I came up with this argument?
July 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
“We love your argument but we hate your text. Can you do this on a different (group of) text(s)”
How do you figure I came up with this argument?
How do you figure I came up with this argument?
And this is perhaps why Kpop Demon Hunter (and many Disney/Pixar films) is well-received among the queer audience:)
It's not "love me despite my (perceived) flaws and hide them", it's "love all of me, I am the sum of my parts, including my flaws"
"the miracle is you / not some gift / just you / the miracle is you"
"the miracle is you / not some gift / just you / the miracle is you"
July 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
And this is perhaps why Kpop Demon Hunter (and many Disney/Pixar films) is well-received among the queer audience:)
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Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
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Written by our SIG member @maguiregeoff.bsky.social, BODIES OF WATER explores the fluid, queer aesthetics of contemporary Latin American cinema sunypress.edu/Books/B/Bodi...
Bodies of Water
sunypress.edu
June 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Written by our SIG member @maguiregeoff.bsky.social, BODIES OF WATER explores the fluid, queer aesthetics of contemporary Latin American cinema sunypress.edu/Books/B/Bodi...
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“Viewpoint diversity”: Promoting white nationalists, banning ideas white nationalists don’t like
“Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic
“Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect
“Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic
“Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect
June 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“Viewpoint diversity”: Promoting white nationalists, banning ideas white nationalists don’t like
“Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic
“Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect
“Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic
“Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect
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Let’s be very clear: do not allow Israel and the U.S. to co-opt women’s rights and the feminist Woman, Life, Freedom Revolution to justify their criminal war on Iran.
My essay: www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-neta...
My essay: www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-neta...
Essay: Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy
As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do so
www.feministgiant.com
June 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Let’s be very clear: do not allow Israel and the U.S. to co-opt women’s rights and the feminist Woman, Life, Freedom Revolution to justify their criminal war on Iran.
My essay: www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-neta...
My essay: www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-neta...
I did it! Now I have a first full draft of the PhD thesis:)
The last 5k words of thesis to write and then it’s done omg! I can do this!💪
June 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I did it! Now I have a first full draft of the PhD thesis:)