June 2009

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Declaration of the Anonymous Netizens 2009
06.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Cross-posted on Shanghaiist:
Floating around on the Chinese interwebs right now is the very creative Declaration of the Anonymous Netizens 2009. It is an apt description of our mood right now following the mysterious disappearance of all Google apps in China [h/t Rick Martin, @mranti @fumi]
2009 Declaration of the Anonymous Netizens
To the Internet censors [...]
LGBT
Li Yinhe on homowives
06.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Crossposted on Shanghaiist:
Renowned sexologist and sociologist Li Yinhe (李银河) in a recent blogpost on the lives of tongqi (同妻), heterosexual women who find themselves married to gay Chinese men (translation adapted from Yawning Bread):
I attended a forum that discussed the problem of ‘homowives‘. The so-called ’homowife‘ (tongqi 同妻) is the wife (qi 妻) of a [...]