tomboy

Dr. Carman Fung discusses the transformation of tomboy identities

By: C Icart, Staff Writer Dr. Carman Fung is a lecturer in the department of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at SFU. They “study the lesbian secondary gender, ‘tomboy,’ across the transnational Sinophone world encompassing contemporary China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.” This is the topic of their upcoming research article “The L Word as a Tomboy Text: Transnational Viewership in Sinophone Lesbian Communities.” The L Word was a 2004 American TV series that centred the lives of a group of lesbians living in LA. Fung highlighted that across Asia, the term “tomboy” is used by queer women to refer to…

Continue reading