In November last year I was invited to imagine a parallel world without gender as part of an event at Melbourne Conversations. ABC recently broadcast those dispatches from the multiverse on Big Ideas with Natasha Mitchell, you can hear it here.
Indelible City & Who Needs the ABC? | Willy Lit Fest
I’m presenting a couple of sessions at Willy Lit Fest next weekend: First, an in-conversation with writer and podcaster Louisa Lim (Indelible City) about resistance and heartbreak in Hong Kong, then a panel with academic Matthew Ricketson (Who Needs the ABC?) and broadcaster, comedian and commentator Sami Shah about the role of the ABC and the future of public broadcasting. So come west! You can also catch me at EWF’s Club Critique the day before.
Indelible City
Sunday 17 June 2023
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
The Chamber, Williamstown Town Hall
104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown, 3016
$20 concession/$22 full/book here
Who Needs the ABC?
Sunday 17 June 2023
3 pm to 4 pm
The Supper Room, Williamstown Town Hall
104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown, 3016
$20 concession/$22 full/book here
China’s LGBTIQ+ movement | ABC News
For ABC, I wrote about how you can’t separate LGBTIQ issues in China from politics, and why international support is a double-edged sword.
The article is a follow-up to my TV story for China Tonight (video below). You can also watch the full 30-min episode on iview, which includes my chat with Stan Grant about the issue, as well as other stories from the China Tonight team.
China Tonight Season 2 | ABC TV
We’re back!
Episode 1 aired last night with Annie Louey’s story on 躺平 and mine on queer activists, Angharad Yeo on gaming restrictions, and of course Stan Grant and Yvonne Yong with all the news. Catch up on iview and set your alarms for 9:30pm, Monday nights on ABC TV.
10 tracks to get you obsessed with Chinese indie music | Double J
I put together a playlist for Double J – hear and read here.
Do you like Chinese music? | Double J Arvos
I was on the radio last week chatting to Tim Shiel about Wuhan punk and Chinese rock music more broadly. Catch up here if you missed it. Big thanks to Tim and Dylan for having me on!
Chinese indie’s dilemma | ABC TV
Is indie music in China growing up or selling out? My story for ABC TV on Wuhan’s punk history and what it means for underground scenes to land in the spotlight.
Ft Li Ke (Wild Records/Vox Livehouse), Krish Raghav (comic artist, Chaoyang Trap House), SMZB, Shii, Hualun, Re-TROS, Bohan Phoenix, Wutiaoren, and a flash of the cringe anti-Blackness of Higher Brothers because we have to talk about that.
You Can’t Ask That
If you want to watch me on the telly, I’m in the new season of the ABC series You Can’t Ask That in an episode about Chinese Australians. Stream it on iview or wait for it to air every Wednesday at 9pm (I’m on June 9).
Melbourne Press Club mentorship
Thrilled to announce that I’ve been selected for a Melbourne Press Club mentorship!
Over the next 12 months, I’ll be mentored by award-winning radio documentary producer Fiona Pepper, who presents and produces Fictions on RN and has also made a host of other audio documentary features. Fiona comes from a theatre background so we have a shared interest in all forms of storytelling.
This is such perfect timing given that Liz Crash and I are just starting to develop the second series of Underfoot too. More on that soon.
Senator Eric Abetz’s controversial questions about loyalty rattle Chinese communities in Australia | ABC News
‘I can condemn him all I like … Xi Jinping isn’t sitting around wondering what a queer performance poet in Footscray thinks of his policies.’
I was on ABC today commenting on Chinese Australians being called to condemn the CCP. I talked about conditional citizenship as a form of racial profiling. Read the story by Bang Xiao and Stephen Dziedzic here.
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