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#9 How to heal hate and victimhood with Fan Popo
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#9 How to heal hate and victimhood with Fan Popo

范坡坡 (Fan Popo) is a documentary filmmaker, film critic, and LGBT activist from China. Fan's documentaries have focused on performance-based activism (New Beijing, New Marriage, and The VaChina Monologues) and coming out as LGBT in the Chinese filial context (Chinese Closet and Papa Rainbow).

He is known for the documentary Mama Rainbow and his well-publicized legal case against the Chinese state media regulator over censorship of it.

Happy Together - one hundred gay film Quanji Lu

Papa Rainbow

Mama Rainbow

Beer! Beer!

Popo's Sex Diaries

Article with Byung Chul Han

New York Times Article, In China, public talk of sex is rare. Could a "Pleasure Community" change that?

Hey, Siro — Popo Fan's porn on XConfessions

Sex and City (in Chinese) — Popo's writing on sexuality

The Guardian: Film-maker sues Chinese censors over 'ban' on gay-themed movie

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