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And They Were Yurtmates: An Interview with Dorjjantsan “Jack” Ganbaatar and Erdeneburen “Gonto” Dorjpurev on the Queer Scene in Mongolia and Ulrike Ottinger’s Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia

In 2025, Queer East expanded its outreach to Central Asia with an event guest-curated by Misha Zakharov, entitled Parallel Voices: Queering (Post-)Soviet Cen...

13.05.26

Emerging Critics Project 2024 Editor’s Note

This is our first ever Queer East Critics Project – and it has been incredibly generative venturing out together and making up the rules as we go along. We w...

24.06.24

Dressing Up / Dressing Down: Gender and Class in A Princess’ One-Sided Love

By Emily Jisoo Bowles 공주병 (gong-ju byeong) princess syndrome is a term used to denigrate a woman perceived to be narcissistic and spoilt, so ridiculous...

25.06.24

Haunted Bodies

By Harry Bayley Cici Peng’s “I Will Haunt You Forever: Queer Ghosts Across Time” programme reconsiders what it is to haunt. A disembodied voice, whispers ...

25.06.24

Dancing Street

By Cindy Ziyun Huang I met her at Club Lai Lai in the late summer of 1986, just two or three months after Priscilla Chan’s Dancing Street became a disco h...

25.06.24

Incest? Or Saying and Not Saying

By Frey Kwa Hawking In an all-time bizarre unprompted interview moment, actor Jeremy Irons asked HuffPost Live in 2013 whether a father could marry his so...

25.06.24

Too Far or Too Close for Comfort?

By Shini Meyer Wang Ben Mullinkosson’s film, The Last Year of Darkness (2023), begins with the rumble of the subway. We are travelling down train tracks i...

25.06.24

At the Intersection of Day and Night

By Cindy Ziyun Huang For you, perhaps, this is an exciting secret chamber. A cave of wild fun, hidden behind construction site hoardings. For me, however,...

25.06.24

Queer Ambivalence of the Bathhouse

By Emily Jisoo Bowles There’s an inherent sadomasochism to the Korean bathhouse: pushing your body to its limits by suffocating in the sauna heat then plu...

25.06.24

Obscure Images: See Less to See More

By Harry Bayley When I watch a film, I want to see something. It’s how we read the screen, and how we construct meaning. A tear across the cheek of a femm...

25.06.24

A Queer East Diary: A Fish in a Forest

By Shini Meyer Wang The student flat party in Lisbon / Ben Mullikosson’s The Last Year of Darkness Just down the street from the student flat in Lisbon...

25.06.24

Eternal Return for Boys: Summer Vacation 1999 and The Heart of Thomas

By Frey Kwa Hawking Early in Summer Vacation 1999 (1988), we see the suicide of a child, Yu, from a cliff, featuring a leap that’s ludicrously wrong: it’s...

25.06.24