LIM SIDNEE
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Queer time and space in genderqueering fancams #transpeterparkeredit”
Published in General Issue No.46 of Transformative Works and Culture
Through montage editing and music accompaniment, fancams employ queer time and space to reimagine canonically cisgender characters as genderqueer. This suspension, dissection, and suturing to queer a traditional and dominant linear narrative canon inspires a genderqueer video edit rebellion.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2025.2881
Divinity and Queerness in The Love Eterne (1963): How inter- and extratextual crossdressing as divine intervention empowers queerness
Accepted for 2026 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Following a storied tradition of cross-dressing, the huangmei opera film The Love Eterne (1963) and its adaptation of the Chinese legend The Butterfly Lovers continues this genre’s genderqueer tradition by complicating the story’s tragic ending. Drawing on Judith Butler’s framework of appropriation and subversion, I position that, despite the seemingly cisnormative and heterosexual conclusion, the intertextual and extratextual cross-dressing in The Love Eterne is a divine intervention that ultimately troubles traditional expectations of gender and romance.
Find all my articles for Naya Magazine here.
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- Monkey Man Colors Action Movies with Violent Genderqueer Catharsis
- Immigration and Embracing Gray Areas in Past Lives’ Romance
Developed in collaboration for Fellows Collective “For Two” Program
An aspiring poet moves to the imperial metropolis and builds a new body for himself. His childhood friend stays home, isled by the smallness of their low-cost labour technohub in the Asia-Pacific. Their reconnection reveals that dreams of the past are not so distant after all. “between [you] and [me]” is a multimedia narrative in electronic love(?) letters. As genderqueer Pacific youths, Deyu and Sayang’s paths intertwine in a dying world of uneven technological advancement and environmental destruction, where queerness and access to community feel like high-fidelity western commodities—impossible.
See the project in progress here.
Developed for Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab
This work is a two-person experience of interactive fiction; While one is encouraged to imagine a better future, the other confronts a vexing labyrinth of rules. This design of bureaucratic control and opaque isolation simulates the queer immigrant’s struggle to live the American life, where even something as seemingly simple as young love is magnified by all the effort it takes to be there, standing in front of their crush, in the cold, on the last day of class.
See the project here.