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Kenneth Chan is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of Remade in Hollywood: The Global Chinese Presence in Transnational Chinese Cinemas (Hong Kong University Press, 2009), and his work has also appeared in academic journals such as Cinema Journal, Discourse, and Camera Obscura. He chairs the International Advisory Board of the Asian Film Archive, Singapore, and is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Loretta Chen is described by Harper’s Bazaar as “a force of nature”, The Straits Times labels her “a Rebel with a Twist” and a “Wild Thing” whilst The Peak calls her a “critical arts entrepreneur”. This multi-hyphenated queer scholarturned -director topped her Master’s cohort at the prestigious Royal Holloway College, University of London and received her PhD from UCLA-NUS. She is currently Visiting Professor and Artist in Residence at University of Toronto, and Creative Director of 360 Productions. Her recent production, The F Word received an Amnesty International Freedom of Speech Award nomination. An active campaigner, she was elected as Nominated Member of Parliament and is the ambassador for The Body Shop, Hermes and Evian’s outreach programmes. Loretta has also recently been honoured as one of Asia’s Most Inspiring Women. Aaron K. H. Ho teaches at SIM University and has published articles on gender, film and Victorian literature in journals like Genders, The Oscholars, and General Themes in Literature. As an editor of Blame It on the Raging Hormones, a novella on a gay teenager in Singapore, he wishes to promote literature to the people and, with the help of a few friends, runs a reading group, ‘queerbookclub’ (http://queerbookclub .wordpress.com). He is about to complete his dissertation on Darwin. Michael Hor is Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore where he has taught and researched in criminal law and constitutional due process for over 20 years. He studied law at the National University of Singapore before completing graduate degrees at the Universities of Oxford and Chicago. Contributors viii Contributors Laurence Wai-Teng Leong received his PhD from University of California San Diego. He has been teaching in the Sociology Department, National University of Singapore, in modules such as Human Rights, Mass Media, and Sexuality. Simon Obendorf is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. Educated at the University of Melbourne, he obtained degrees in politics and law, before completing a PhD in international relations. He has held academic positions inAustralia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Dr Obendorf’s research utilises contemporary East and Southeast Asian materials to explore international theory and postcolonial futures. An Australian citizen, he is a founding member of the Melbourne-based Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Robert Phillips received his PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of California, Irvine in 2008. He is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba and is working on a monograph, based on his fieldwork, entitled “Little Pink Dot: Technology, Sexuality, and the Nation in Singapore”. Chris K. K. Tan received his PhD from the University of Illinois. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Shandong University. As an anthropologist of the State, he studied the construction of cultural citizenship among Singaporean gay men for his dissertation. He currently researches the roles that the civil service plays in Singaporean state-formation. Roy Tan is a medical practitioner with a passion for documenting Singapore’s LGBT history. He started all the Singaporean LGBT-related articles in Wikipedia in 2005 and has amassed the most comprehensive collection of Singapore LGBT-related news broadcasts, documentaries and videos of local events on YouTube. Tan intended to organise Singapore’s first gay pride parade at Hong Lim Park in 2008. This event later morphed into Pink Dot SG, a worldwide movement which “supports the freedom to love”. Shawna Tang is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy in the University of Sydney. She received her Master’s degree in Sociology from the National University of Singapore. Her interest is in the convergence of postcolonial theory, transnational feminist critique and queer theory in engaging questions of modernity, globalisation, sexuality, gender, citizenship, state and nationalism. Audrey Yue is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Ann Hui’s Song of the Exile (2010) and co-editor of AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities...

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