Abstract This article examines the representation of same-sex attracted women in contemporary Thai culture by using the television series Club Friday To Be Continued: She Changed (2016) as the prime example. The show’s portrayal of the tomboy protagonist is not uncontroversial, given that her unfolding love for a man betrays the tomboy’s original self-identity as a woman-loving woman. It invokes the heteronormative specter that sees female homoeroticism as temporary or situational while same-sex attracted women will turn “straight” so long as they meet the right men. This article, however, urges us to look beyond the seeming political incorrectness and focus on the changing signification of “tomboy” in the Thai culture. I argue that the series dramatizes the expanded meaning of tomboy: now detached from a firm association with female homoeroticism (tom) to become a form of women’s gendered self-fashioning (tomboyism) that is mediated by trendy intra-Asian cosmopolitanism in contemporary Thai society.

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象征性的假小子和泰国电视连续剧俱乐部星期五将继续：她改变了

摘要 本文以电视连续剧《星期五待续：她变了》（2016）为例，探讨了当代泰国文化中同性吸引女性的表现。该剧对假小子主人公的刻画并非没有争议，因为她对男人不断展开的爱背叛了假小子作为一个爱女人的女人的原始自我身份。它引发了异性恋幽灵，认为女性同性恋是暂时的或情境性的，而被同性吸引的女性只要遇到合适的男人就会变“直”。然而，这篇文章敦促我们超越表面上的政治不正确，关注泰国文化中“假小子”不断变化的含义。我认为该系列戏剧化了假小子的扩展含义：