GenderLibs is a digital platform that connects Chinese and global gender diversity knowledge through translation, contextualization, and systematic organization. We aim to bridge linguistic and cultural barriers by providing a resource library and wiki that makes diverse gender expressions accessible across languages.
A case study of the Guiyang Mr C transgender employment dispute, tracing how labor arbitration, wrongful-dismissal litigation, personality-rights litigation, and appeal translated gender identity, gender expression, and equal employment into a durable judicial record.
A historical study of clinical, media, administrative, and community vocabularies for transgender and gender-diverse lives in mainland China, using a vocabulary-stratigraphy model to explain how terms such as yixingzheng, bianxing ren, gender reassignment, transgender, and kuar coexist across institutions.
A case study of Ranma ½ that models transformation through three interacting layers: bodily state, character continuity, and the social memory carried across each switch.
A historical essay separates the origin question into three clocks—terms, media characters, and embodied practice—to trace how Japanese otokonoko publishing, cosplay, and Chinese platform language converged.
A platform observatory report on public Bilibili pages from 2024–2026, examining how nanniang, cross-dressing, Nanliang, Xiao Nanliang, CD, TS, and MTF move across titles, tags, series, bios, danmu, and search entry points.
A case study of Nanliang and Xiao Nanliang across Bilibili, AcFun, TapTap, Chinese web fiction, and technical communities, tracing how homophony, nicknaming, series branding, creator self-description, and platform discovery produced a new layer of Chinese community language.
A context-first guide to five adjacent labels in Chinese, Japanese, and English, showing how character classification, clothing practice, audience praise, platform naming, and self-description can be lost through direct substitution.
A comprehensive interdisciplinary review exploring how emerging technologies - from VR and AI companions to biotechnology and digital platforms - are reshaping human sexuality, relationships, and intimate connections across seven critical dimensions.
Gender transformation narratives are stories in which characters undergo a change of gender – whether through magic, technology, or other fantastical means – and grapple with the consequences of that change. Often known in fan communities as TSF (short for “Trans-Sexual Fiction/Fantasy”) or simply “gender-swap” or...