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With the public (re-)emergence of LGBTQ identities and communities in post-Mao China, health and wellbeing have grow important issues for gender non-conforming people. This event revisits a few key moments in China’s queer history when media play an important role in health communication and community advocacy. They include: the utilize of pagers and telephone hotlines in the 1990s, the nationwide distribution of self-published leaflets and zines in the 2000s, and the almost ubiquitous utilize of dating apps in queer communities in the 2010s. These social, collective, and participatory forms of media shape identity, group, and politics in specific ways. This brief archaeology of queer community media hopes to highlight the crucial role of media in identity construction, society formation, and subcultural health intervention.

In this online panel, with a talk by Hongwei Bao (Nottingham) at its centre, Zairong Xiang (Duke Kunshan), himself an expert of decolonial feminism and queer theory, and Gero Bauer (Center for Gender and Diversity Study, Tübingen) will engage in a conversation with Dr Bao on queer collective media and health in China, the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other