Women's access to religious sites, idols and alters is heavily restricted in many locations across Burma (Myanmar)
Ladies are Prohibited


A queer feminist anthropologist exploring the realities of culture, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Asia

Women's access to religious sites, idols and alters is heavily restricted in many locations across Burma (Myanmar)

If I got pregnant or had children before I got married? I would get shame, and my parents wouldn’t call me their daughter.
“Don’t tell me that all Chinese guys like skinny girls, that’s just not true!” Yuan Xiaodan’s experience tells otherwise.

Guy uses Chinese whispers to ask for a date. Remedies for dating in inauspicious circumstances. Women tell true stories of their dating experiences in China.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. Downloadable copy of Le Guin's 1974 novel The Dispossessed.

There's no need for a name when you're 'Ms Foreign Friend' in China.

While Americans protest the election of Donald Trump, South Koreans rally to put pressure on President Park Geun-Hye to resign, and people in Hong Kong protest the mainland's intervention in their legal system.

The trains running through this historic railway station honoured my neighbourhood with 27 traffic jams a day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBdLRubSzqA A young woman receives unsolicited advice on her appearance from a disembodied male voice straight out of a 1950s public service announcement. The 1950s doesn't seem to believe she's showing off her 'assets' enough for a 2016 job interview. Written and directed by Kyrie Gray Filmed in Beijing, May 2016

image: A beautiful sunset going ignored on the streets of Beijing