Kristine Michelle L Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 4607482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristine Michelle L Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristine Michelle L |
| FAMILY NAME | Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS K M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ateneo de Manila University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8511-3052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer archives in Asia
The authors of this piece work with and think about archives from a variety of positions. In relation to archives, some authors identify as researchers, others as archivists, others as volunteers. ...
Exploring debates over “boys love” media in the Philippines
As a genre originally emerging from Japanese women’s popular culture and developing into a transnational phenomenon, debates over “Boys Love” (BL) media have increased in recent years. Within this article, we explore debates over BL through a case study of its reception in the Philippines, situating our analysis within the broader context of the Philippines’ heteropatriarchal culture. Drawing upon critical discourse analysis of traditional and ne…
Exploring Philippine queer possibilities through transformative K-pop imaginations online
Given its accessibility in the last decade, K-pop has become one of the strong cultural forces in Philippine youth media that has heavily influenced the consumption practices of local fans. From collecting photo cards to organizing cupsleeve events, Filipino K-pop fans have embraced and adapted different fan practices, some of which are intimately queer. One such queer fan practice is ‘K-pop shipping’ where fans imagine their favourite idols enga…
Towards a queer theory of the Korean Wave
Within this brief editorial introduction to our Special Issue on ‘Queering the Korean Wave’, we unpack just what it means to queer the theorization of Korean popular culture’s transnational circulation both politically and methodologically. We assert that a queer theory of the Korean Wave must always be grounded in a recognition of the paradox of the K-pop industry’s heteropatriarchal and homophobic tendencies while also celebrating the potential…
"Otaku and the struggle for imagination in Japan," by Patrick W. Galbraith
Patrick W. Galbraith, Otaku and the struggle for imagination in Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, paperback, $27.95, (336 p), ISBN 978-1-4780-0629-9
The bitches of Boys Love comics
Boys Love (BL) manga in Japan have a 50-year history that highlights women’s fantasies of male–male romances that at times feature sexual scenes. In recent years, however, sexual depictions in BL manga have become increasingly vulgar and graphic as fans use the term ero (alluding to its ‘eroticism’) to describe BL works that feature stories with visual and narrative similarities to mainstream pornographic comics called eromanga. The popularizatio…
Queer Affective Literacies
In Japan, there is a group of women who are notoriously known as “rotten women” because of their fantasies that perceive male homosocial relationships as homoromantic or homosexual. These transformative homoerotic fantasies are central to Boys Love culture. These “rotten women” or fujoshi engage with Japanese popular media using Boys Love literacies that challenge normative notions of male intimacy. In this paper, I examine Boys Love literacies, …
Asian Comics, written by John A. Lent
The bitches of Boys Love comics
Boys Love (BL) manga in Japan have a 50-year history that highlights women’s fantasies of male–male romances that at times feature sexual scenes. In recent years, however, sexual depictions in BL manga have become increasingly vulgar and graphic as fans use the term ero (alluding to its ‘eroticism’) to describe BL works that feature stories with visual and narrative similarities to mainstream pornographic comics called eromanga. The popularizatio…
Queer Affective Literacies
In Japan, there is a group of women who are notoriously known as “rotten women” because of their fantasies that perceive male homosocial relationships as homoromantic or homosexual. These transformative homoerotic fantasies are central to Boys Love culture. These “rotten women” or fujoshi engage with Japanese popular media using Boys Love literacies that challenge normative notions of male intimacy. In this paper, I examine Boys Love literacies, …
Exploring debates over “boys love” media in the Philippines
As a genre originally emerging from Japanese women’s popular culture and developing into a transnational phenomenon, debates over “Boys Love” (BL) media have increased in recent years. Within this article, we explore debates over BL through a case study of its reception in the Philippines, situating our analysis within the broader context of the Philippines’ heteropatriarchal culture. Drawing upon critical discourse analysis of traditional and ne…
Towards a queer theory of the Korean Wave
Within this brief editorial introduction to our Special Issue on ‘Queering the Korean Wave’, we unpack just what it means to queer the theorization of Korean popular culture’s transnational circulation both politically and methodologically. We assert that a queer theory of the Korean Wave must always be grounded in a recognition of the paradox of the K-pop industry’s heteropatriarchal and homophobic tendencies while also celebrating the potential…
Asian Comics, written by John A. Lent
The bitches of Boys Love comics
Boys Love (BL) manga in Japan have a 50-year history that highlights women’s fantasies of male–male romances that at times feature sexual scenes. In recent years, however, sexual depictions in BL manga have become increasingly vulgar and graphic as fans use the term ero (alluding to its ‘eroticism’) to describe BL works that feature stories with visual and narrative similarities to mainstream pornographic comics called eromanga. The popularizatio…
Queer Affective Literacies
In Japan, there is a group of women who are notoriously known as “rotten women” because of their fantasies that perceive male homosocial relationships as homoromantic or homosexual. These transformative homoerotic fantasies are central to Boys Love culture. These “rotten women” or fujoshi engage with Japanese popular media using Boys Love literacies that challenge normative notions of male intimacy. In this paper, I examine Boys Love literacies, …
"Otaku and the struggle for imagination in Japan," by Patrick W. Galbraith
Patrick W. Galbraith, Otaku and the struggle for imagination in Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, paperback, $27.95, (336 p), ISBN 978-1-4780-0629-9
Exploring Philippine queer possibilities through transformative K-pop imaginations online
Given its accessibility in the last decade, K-pop has become one of the strong cultural forces in Philippine youth media that has heavily influenced the consumption practices of local fans. From collecting photo cards to organizing cupsleeve events, Filipino K-pop fans have embraced and adapted different fan practices, some of which are intimately queer. One such queer fan practice is ‘K-pop shipping’ where fans imagine their favourite idols enga…
Towards a queer theory of the Korean Wave
Within this brief editorial introduction to our Special Issue on ‘Queering the Korean Wave’, we unpack just what it means to queer the theorization of Korean popular culture’s transnational circulation both politically and methodologically. We assert that a queer theory of the Korean Wave must always be grounded in a recognition of the paradox of the K-pop industry’s heteropatriarchal and homophobic tendencies while also celebrating the potential…
Exploring debates over “boys love” media in the Philippines
As a genre originally emerging from Japanese women’s popular culture and developing into a transnational phenomenon, debates over “Boys Love” (BL) media have increased in recent years. Within this article, we explore debates over BL through a case study of its reception in the Philippines, situating our analysis within the broader context of the Philippines’ heteropatriarchal culture. Drawing upon critical discourse analysis of traditional and ne…
Queer archives in Asia
The authors of this piece work with and think about archives from a variety of positions. In relation to archives, some authors identify as researchers, others as archivists, others as volunteers. ...
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)