Music + Diplomacy Journalist @SCMPNews | Singer-songwriter | Alumnus @BristolUni | Opinions my own | Retweets ≠ endorsements
Jun 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Many in 🇨🇳China’s gay community are strangers to Western #LGBT cultures, and Westerners are unfamiliar with their Chinese counterparts’ lifestyles
Using Western metrics like #pride month & #rainbowcapitalism 🏳️🌈 to weigh their joy is intellectually flawed scmp.com/comment/opinio…#Homosexuality existed throughout ancient China, but #gaypride is a modern American celebration → its irrelevance here is nothing to be appalled about
Demanding Asian policies to be more Westernised reinforces the harmful narrative that homosexuality is a Western “lifestyle” 👬
Dec 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
85 years ago today, Japan began a 6-week massacre of over 20,000 Chinese civilians, alongside mass rape, arson and looting, marking one of the worst atrocities in history
"Massacre contests" were held amongst Japanese soldiers, who slaughtered en masse, in ways beyond belief
From door to door, Japanese soldiers searched for women (including children and elderly) to rape and often killed them immediately after through mutilation - by penetrating vaginas with bayonets, long sticks of bamboo, or other objects
