About Thomas Baudinette

Thomas Baudinette is Lecturer in International Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. A cultural anthropologist, his research focusses on Japanese queer media and its impacts on understandings of gender across East and Southeast Asia. His first book is Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo (2021, University of Michigan Press). His current research investigates the transnational spread of Boys Love media fandom and celebrity, focussing on South Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Thomas Baudinette is Lecturer in International Studies at Macquarie University, Australia.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Thomas:

Howard Chiang, "Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific" (Columbia UP, 2021)

November 14, 2022

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

Howard Chiang

As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the …