James Welker
ジェームズ・ウェルカー（he/him）
I research queer cultures, feminisms, and popular culture & media in and beyond Japan・クィアスタディーズ、フェミニズム、グローバリゼーション、日本文化史を研究しています
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@emarlow.bsky.social
🎮✍🏻📚 Curator, writer, researcher 🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏻 • BA, MA, PhD: Religion, sexuality & masculinity. Film, videogames, MVs, art. • Technical Director @ Intrapology: https://intrapology.com/ • Portfolio: https://www.emilymarlow.co.uk/
@katherineh.bsky.social
Translation Studies PhD student in Edinburgh researching the influence of fan culture on professional manga and anime translation (specifically, Sailor Moon!). Also a tutor and translator. Really an advocate for all things naff. 日本語OK!
@nicolleness.bsky.social
🔸️Media studies scholar 🔸️Fan studies, cosplay, games & tech 🔸️Passionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht 🔸️Gamer, fan artist & Trekker 🖖 https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
@suzannerblack.bsky.social
Into Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities & Fan Studies. Postdoctoral Researcher, CoSTAR Foresight Lab, University of Edinburgh; views my own. she/her
@svegaard.bsky.social
Post-doc in polarisation, populism, fandom, identity and all the feels with @snurb at QUT DMRC. 🇩🇰 in 🇦🇺, residing on Turrbal and Yugara country. QaF. Plant🪴dad. Once and future cat person. he/him
@thessajensen.bsky.social
Fandom, fanfiction, ethics, social media, artificial intelligence... associate professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.
@japanintercult.bsky.social
Consultant, author, mentor, educator & board director specializing in global communication, leadership, HR, & org. development. Tree hugger. https://japanintercultural.com/
@lyrwar.bsky.social
PC Gaymer & D&D enthusiast. #Critter PhD Candidate (Media Studies) with a focus on the relationship between gamers and avatars. Insta: @lyrwar (mostly bread tbh) Discord: lyrwar Pronouns are he/him
@katiedigc.bsky.social
#HigherEd, #FanStudies, #MedEd, #SocMed, #DigPed, #CriticalEdTech, and Marvel tragic. Canadian in Australia. She/her. Learning design manager at Australian National University School of Medicine and Psychology. Living on Ngunnawal country.
@colbychamberlain.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Art History, Cleveland Institute of Art | “Fluxus Administration,” UChicago Press, 2024 | Queens native, Cleveland resident | he/him
@noemin.bsky.social
👩🏽🏫 PhD Candidate researching Media Studies, Fan Studies and Latinx representation 📚 Researching Disney’s Encanto and first-generation Latinas 🇭🇳 Latina and lover of pop culture 🪩
@hanndhk.bsky.social
PhD student in Political Science @UofT. Probably a Buddhist. I work on sex and historical institutions, global intellectual history (pre-WWI & post-WWII), and trans rights! they/them🏳️⚧️🇰🇷👽
@lrhogan.bsky.social
Boston College faculty & director of undergraduate studies, Communication. PhD in Media & Cultural Studies, UW-Madison. TX Longhorn. Opinions my own.
@tomwaidzunas.bsky.social
sociology, science & technology studies. queer/feminist sts, sexuality & gender studies, @temple univ, cat steward, music 🎶 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎢 tomwaidzunas.net
@toukochan.bsky.social
He/him. I review manga and light novels, and also reblog a lot of US and UK politics. I also like dogs, cats, and Higurashi.
@jsealab.bsky.social
Public/Scholarship on Justice in Southeast Asia: Translation, Workshops, Lectures | Based in UW-Madison Center for SEAsian Studies | Coordinated by @turtelista.bsky.social Web: https://seasia.wisc.edu/sjsea-project/jsealab/
@moshimichi1.bsky.social
MamaBear. Therapist. Dog lover. A bit witchy. Ally for the rights of the planet, women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA folx. Pet Peeves: deranged billionaires hellbent on the destruction of all things good and moral. #resist
@waynejm.bsky.social
Professor Equity and Social Justice Education, Western University Canada. queer and trans studies: https://www.edu.uwo.ca/about/faculty-profiles/wayne-martino/index.html
@cyberantiquities.bsky.social
PhD student working on Sappho and online quotation culture. Interested in fragments, ancient literature and/in digital media, queer historiographies, and gorgons. Also an artist/translator/performer. https://cyberantiquities.wordpress.com
@turtelista.bsky.social
Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social) | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | most recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP) |she/her
@tvce.bsky.social
The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary international research and advocacy group. Find out more or submit an expression of interest to join us: tinyurl.com/transvce
@taigdara.com
TaigDara.com, PhD student researching the history of democratic thought in modern China 💙Liberal Democracy🗳️♥️Social Justice⚖️💚Vegan Food☘️🖤Magical Forests🌲💜Star Trek🪐🧡Dusty Libraries📚🤍War Games🗺️🩵Homesteading🌽
@cinemajok.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | film, dance, musicals, Jacques Demy, genre, videographic criticism | she/her | toddler maman | author of Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical (Oxford UP, 2024)
@pixelatedlenses.bsky.social
Former 福島 JET & JP-EN Editor / Indie Bookseller / Editor at AnimeFeminist & AnimeHerald & Yatta-Tachi / They・Them / 腐人・百合人 / EN・日本語 / 🏳️🌈&🏳️⚧️ / Opinions are my own.
@pajackson.bsky.social
@thetransfemininereview.com
by transfemmes. for transfemmes. about transfemmes. | @transjournalists.org member | thetransfemininereview.com | ed. Bethany Karsten
@shakeenz.bsky.social
Trans actress, writer, director, producer, priestess 💫 Liberatory Agitator, Doctor of Philosophy 💅🏻😇 you’ve seen me in Difficult People (Hulu), Transparent (Amazon), Connecting (NBC), Problemista (A24), Quantum Leap (NBC), voice of Hana in Tokyo Godfathers.
@mytrawnsley.bsky.social
I am interested in all things Taiwan, especially cinema, media and culture. Founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Taiwan Studies (https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/ijts-overview.xml). I also enjoy reading and practising Tai Chi.
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations @Uni of Edinburgh. History and literature: 'Writing War' (Harvard UP, 2013), 'Bombing the City' (Cambridge UP, 2018), 'How Maoism Was Made' (Oxford UP, 2024), 'The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader' (Bloomsbury, 2025)
@kimihikonakamura.bsky.social
art historian (i guess?) https://sites.google.com/view/kimihikonakamura/home https://osaka-u.academia.edu/KimihikoNakamura
@jonathanarose.bsky.social
Sees and does his best to observe. Post-doc at Uni of Passau. Fan, Trans, Cultural Studies. And fungi!
@hannahosborne.bsky.social
Japan Foundation Lecturer in Japanese Literature, University of East Anglia
@rondbu.bsky.social
Researches political cartoons and manga history. Teaches comics studies, English and multiculturalism at Daito Bunka University, Japan. Coauthor with CJ Suzuki of “Manga: a Critical Guide.”
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
@tanyanb.bsky.social
📝: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa・🏫: UTokyo 東京・scholar of adventure narratives in early 20th c. Japanese poetry/prose・近代日本文学/大衆文化史の冒険家・corgi dog mom
@mediamarknz.bsky.social
formerly @markboynz on Twits. Media and Comms academic. Pinko leftie socialist. Queer rights. Tangata tiriti. #Landback.
@hallyulikedonna.bsky.social
Korean/Asian/American music and culture aca-fan/multi-stan. Associate Prof. in ethnomusicology. Author of Stepping in the Madang (2024, Wesleyan) and trying desperately to maintain hope in humanity. CSIS US-Korea NextGen Scholar 24-25.
@mcooperk.bsky.social
PhD student in the UK, researching gender, trauma and the supernatural in Japanese (and Mexican!) literature. Horror and the Gothic in Japan. Irish, Queer, Hopeful. Kind is Cool. EN/ES/日本語 OK
@shakibabarghi.bsky.social
Graduate Researcher Academic Associate & PhD Candidate at University of Melbourne | Media Studies | Book History | Publishing Studies | Social Media | Fan Studies 📚✒️
@malecsandram.bsky.social
PhD • foreign labor in the Japanese video game industry Translator JP-ENG 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇯🇵en een beetje 🇳🇱 Sharing research in accessible language at @japancreatives.bsky.social
@francescapizarro.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Japan Studies at Colorado College.
@drerinnerung.bsky.social
Associate professor (17th and 18th century secret history, celebrity, fantasy fiction and fan cultures), haphazard gardener, dog and cat mom, she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜
@vikkigodwin.bsky.social
Fan studies scholar. I write about costuming, customizing, collecting, and more. Editor of Journal of Fandom Studies. Fan Studies Area co-Chair for PCA.