Senwei Tang
Biographic Data
| ID | 89033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Senwei Tang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Senwei |
| FAMILY NAME | Tang |
| SIGNATURE | TANG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0385-299X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Book Symposium on The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
Do I feel proud?I reflected on this question recently while I gathered with several sweaty, strange, and gorgeous bodies on the streets of Washington DC for World Pride in June 2025.As I stood in the midday heat waiting impatiently amongst a crowd of thousands hoping to parade, the pink, blue, purple, yellow glitter began to trickle slowly down my face.I was an emotional mess and my sparkle reflected that.The beady glints of pink, blue, purple, a…
Lady Trieu, the Matter of Memory, and the Feminist Work of the Surface in Watchmen (2019)
This essay pursues an analysis of form through Lady Trieu, the Vietnamese American villain of Damon Lindelof’s hit HBO show Watchmen (2019). I argue that a formal reading of Lady Trieu and her mother/daughter Bian reframes the Asiatic woman’s complicity and injury within the violent machinations of the U.S. state by pivoting from a politics of presence to a metacritique of historical narration. Rather than theorize an ontology for Asiatic feminin…
Chinese Racialization and Technologies of Mothering
In this article, I bring together a set of three disjunctive scenes in Singapore relating to Chinese mothers, straight and lesbian. First, what has been called “the AWARE saga” in 2009; second, graduate mothers in the 1980s; and third, lesbian mothering in contemporary time. In this triangulation, my analysis focuses on educated Chinese women and mothers across historical contexts as paradigmatic formations of a protected class encouraged to repr…
Transforming Boys Studies
Racialised Queer Chinese Migrants in Australia
This article considers what it means to be queer, Chinese and diasporic in white settler-colonial Australian society. Considering the narratives of newly arrived young queer People’s Republic of China’s Chinese immigrants and older queer Chinese second-generation descendants of earlier China-born settler-immigrants, this paper asks specifically how these subjects negotiate the boundary of sexual other of whiteness and racial other of straightness…
Queer Southeast Asia
Notes on Transkids
Transkids is a documentary on gender transitioning children in Israel. My interest is in the quotidian lives of the three transmasculine youths portrayed in the film. In reading the documentary, I draw on existing queer feminist cultural studies scholarship on Israel to frame the specific conditions under which these youths realize their boyhood and manhood. In this paper, I ask after three questions. One, what are the community support systems a…
Not man enough! Queer Asian masculinities at the field site
In this article, we grapple with the ways in which our embodied masculinity affects how we learn about and tell the stories of our older lesbian respondents. Our encounters at the field site have prompted us to think through our methodological practices and epistemological positions, a prompting conditioned by the feminist and queer methodological traditions we are schooled in. Following queer feminist methodological emphasis on attending to the …
Teaching Gender and Cultural Studies in Australia as Part of Asia
Gender and cultural studies is, at its core, a pedagogical project for social and political change. Students are invited to new ways of thinking and acting in the world, shaped by intellectual traditions evolving from various social movements around race, class and feminism in mostly Western nation-states. Our students’ imaginations are very much captured by these political possibilities, including international students whose reception and inter…
What is this moment we are caught in
Our response to the question ‘What is this moment we are caught in?' is articulated through our collaborative reading of Berlant's (2011) Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Cruel optimism, Berlant suggests, is a desire for something that undermines its own potentiality. As queer academics we expose the cruelty of our desires to live a good academic life, and we do so from our different positions as postdoctoral fellow, tenured ac…
Sexuality in Cultural Studies
Beginnings and
Heteronormativity and sexuality politics in Singapore
This article explores the family practices of female-headed households in Singapore, specifically, those of lesbian and divorced mothers as they negotiate the entrenched normative orders of sexuality and gender in Singapore. In examining the non-normative lives of lesbian and divorced mothers, this article marshals two distinct fields of study to explore the profound effects of heteronormativity on all who stand outside its fold. Using empirical …
The genetic admixture in Tibetan‐Yi Corridor
OBJECTIVES: The Tibetan-Yi Corridor located on the eastern edge of Tibetan Plateau is suggested to be the key region for the origin and diversification of Tibeto-Burman speaking populations and the main route of the peopling of the Plateau. However, the genetic history of the populations in the Corridor is far from clear due to limited sampling in the northern part of the Corridor. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We collected blood samples from 10 Tibetan…
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore
Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms. It looks at the core question of how this identity can be reconciled with local culture and how it relates to global modernities and dominant understandings of what it means to be queer. It engages with debates about globalization, post-colonialism and sexuality, while e…
Heteronormativity and sexuality politics in Singapore
This article explores the family practices of female-headed households in Singapore, specifically, those of lesbian and divorced mothers as they negotiate the entrenched normative orders of sexuality and gender in Singapore. In examining the non-normative lives of lesbian and divorced mothers, this article marshals two distinct fields of study to explore the profound effects of heteronormativity on all who stand outside its fold. Using empirical …
What is this moment we are caught in
Our response to the question ‘What is this moment we are caught in?' is articulated through our collaborative reading of Berlant's (2011) Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Cruel optimism, Berlant suggests, is a desire for something that undermines its own potentiality. As queer academics we expose the cruelty of our desires to live a good academic life, and we do so from our different positions as postdoctoral fellow, tenured ac…
The genetic admixture in Tibetan‐Yi Corridor
OBJECTIVES: The Tibetan-Yi Corridor located on the eastern edge of Tibetan Plateau is suggested to be the key region for the origin and diversification of Tibeto-Burman speaking populations and the main route of the peopling of the Plateau. However, the genetic history of the populations in the Corridor is far from clear due to limited sampling in the northern part of the Corridor. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We collected blood samples from 10 Tibetan…
Racialised Queer Chinese Migrants in Australia
This article considers what it means to be queer, Chinese and diasporic in white settler-colonial Australian society. Considering the narratives of newly arrived young queer People’s Republic of China’s Chinese immigrants and older queer Chinese second-generation descendants of earlier China-born settler-immigrants, this paper asks specifically how these subjects negotiate the boundary of sexual other of whiteness and racial other of straightness…
Notes on Transkids
Transkids is a documentary on gender transitioning children in Israel. My interest is in the quotidian lives of the three transmasculine youths portrayed in the film. In reading the documentary, I draw on existing queer feminist cultural studies scholarship on Israel to frame the specific conditions under which these youths realize their boyhood and manhood. In this paper, I ask after three questions. One, what are the community support systems a…
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore
Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms. It looks at the core question of how this identity can be reconciled with local culture and how it relates to global modernities and dominant understandings of what it means to be queer. It engages with debates about globalization, post-colonialism and sexuality, while e…
The genetic admixture in Tibetan‐Yi Corridor
OBJECTIVES: The Tibetan-Yi Corridor located on the eastern edge of Tibetan Plateau is suggested to be the key region for the origin and diversification of Tibeto-Burman speaking populations and the main route of the peopling of the Plateau. However, the genetic history of the populations in the Corridor is far from clear due to limited sampling in the northern part of the Corridor. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We collected blood samples from 10 Tibetan…
Heteronormativity and sexuality politics in Singapore
This article explores the family practices of female-headed households in Singapore, specifically, those of lesbian and divorced mothers as they negotiate the entrenched normative orders of sexuality and gender in Singapore. In examining the non-normative lives of lesbian and divorced mothers, this article marshals two distinct fields of study to explore the profound effects of heteronormativity on all who stand outside its fold. Using empirical …
What is this moment we are caught in
Our response to the question ‘What is this moment we are caught in?' is articulated through our collaborative reading of Berlant's (2011) Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Cruel optimism, Berlant suggests, is a desire for something that undermines its own potentiality. As queer academics we expose the cruelty of our desires to live a good academic life, and we do so from our different positions as postdoctoral fellow, tenured ac…
Sexuality in Cultural Studies
Beginnings and
Notes on Transkids
Transkids is a documentary on gender transitioning children in Israel. My interest is in the quotidian lives of the three transmasculine youths portrayed in the film. In reading the documentary, I draw on existing queer feminist cultural studies scholarship on Israel to frame the specific conditions under which these youths realize their boyhood and manhood. In this paper, I ask after three questions. One, what are the community support systems a…
Not man enough! Queer Asian masculinities at the field site
In this article, we grapple with the ways in which our embodied masculinity affects how we learn about and tell the stories of our older lesbian respondents. Our encounters at the field site have prompted us to think through our methodological practices and epistemological positions, a prompting conditioned by the feminist and queer methodological traditions we are schooled in. Following queer feminist methodological emphasis on attending to the …
Teaching Gender and Cultural Studies in Australia as Part of Asia
Gender and cultural studies is, at its core, a pedagogical project for social and political change. Students are invited to new ways of thinking and acting in the world, shaped by intellectual traditions evolving from various social movements around race, class and feminism in mostly Western nation-states. Our students’ imaginations are very much captured by these political possibilities, including international students whose reception and inter…
Queer Southeast Asia
Transforming Boys Studies
Racialised Queer Chinese Migrants in Australia
This article considers what it means to be queer, Chinese and diasporic in white settler-colonial Australian society. Considering the narratives of newly arrived young queer People’s Republic of China’s Chinese immigrants and older queer Chinese second-generation descendants of earlier China-born settler-immigrants, this paper asks specifically how these subjects negotiate the boundary of sexual other of whiteness and racial other of straightness…
Lady Trieu, the Matter of Memory, and the Feminist Work of the Surface in Watchmen (2019)
This essay pursues an analysis of form through Lady Trieu, the Vietnamese American villain of Damon Lindelof’s hit HBO show Watchmen (2019). I argue that a formal reading of Lady Trieu and her mother/daughter Bian reframes the Asiatic woman’s complicity and injury within the violent machinations of the U.S. state by pivoting from a politics of presence to a metacritique of historical narration. Rather than theorize an ontology for Asiatic feminin…
Chinese Racialization and Technologies of Mothering
In this article, I bring together a set of three disjunctive scenes in Singapore relating to Chinese mothers, straight and lesbian. First, what has been called “the AWARE saga” in 2009; second, graduate mothers in the 1980s; and third, lesbian mothering in contemporary time. In this triangulation, my analysis focuses on educated Chinese women and mothers across historical contexts as paradigmatic formations of a protected class encouraged to repr…
Book Symposium on The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
Do I feel proud?I reflected on this question recently while I gathered with several sweaty, strange, and gorgeous bodies on the streets of Washington DC for World Pride in June 2025.As I stood in the midday heat waiting impatiently amongst a crowd of thousands hoping to parade, the pink, blue, purple, yellow glitter began to trickle slowly down my face.I was an emotional mess and my sparkle reflected that.The beady glints of pink, blue, purple, a…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Queer (7 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Lesbian (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)