Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce the publication of the Special Issue on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’, edited by Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, and Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique. It includes an introduction, 7 empirical articles and 5 forum pieces. They are all amazing! :) You can read the Special Issue here: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3 CONTENTS Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media Special Issue Editors: Yener Bayramo[1]glu, Łukasz Szulc, Radhika Gajjala Original Articles Transnational queer cultures and digital media: An introduction YENER BAYRAMOGLU, [1] ŁUKASZ SZULC, AND RADHIKA GAJJALA A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics PENG QIAO AND YUQI HU “Instagram is like a karela:” Transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India TANVI KANCHAN RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer authenticity and strategic Westernness ZANE AUSTIN WILLARD AND RACHEL E. DUBROFSKY Trans (on) YouTube: Localizing transnational narratives on two Polish trans YouTube channels JOANNA CHOJNICKA Glitchy transnationalism: When queer migrants meet the state online HATIM RACHDI “We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay:” BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires ESIHLE LUPINDO What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community BEATRICE MELIS, CHIARA PAOLINI, MARTA FIORAVANTI, AND DANIELE METILLI Forum The “aroma of citrus” as transnational queer digital culture: Girls’ Love webtoons in contemporary China JAMIE J. ZHAO When the homo deamon went digital: Writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora B. CAMMINGA “Middle East conflict in Berlin schools:” On the affectability of “fake news” JIN HARITAWORN “How do I put this gently?” Articulating the link between racial selectivity in the sexual market and neighborhood selection in the residential market of a global city NICHOLAS BOSTON Gay for pay: Homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape SHARIF MOWLABOCUS Very best, Łukasz Dr Łukasz Szulc<https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/%C5%82ukasz-szulc> (he/him) Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester UNITED KINGDOM [A button with "Hear my name" text for name playback in email signature]<https://www.name-coach.com/ukasz-szulc> RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2024) Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3 (2023) Culture is transnational. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779221131349 (2022) Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380385211024117 (2020) Digital Gender Disidentifications: Beyond the Subversion Versus Hegemony Dichotomy and Toward Everyday Gender Practices. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15396