Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong
ติณณภพจ์ สินสมบูรณ์ทอง

Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong (Tintin) (they/them) is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). They hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Chulalongkorn University and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), sponsored by the UK government’s Chevening Scholarship. Before joining NUS, Tintin worked for many civil society organizations (CSOs) in various fields and has taught at the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University, since 2018. Their research interests include queering sociology, sociology of humor, sociology of human rights, postcolonial/decolonial sociology, netnography/digital ethnography, and social movement and activism in Asia, especially Thailand and Singapore. In their doctoral research, they are currently focusing on understanding the cultural making of “queer humor” through jokes, parodies, and memes in “Nongng,” a queer online community in Thailand, and how these humorous practices that were used as “weapons of the weak” against the military junta in recent years are now used to challenge the existing universal notion of “rights,” hegemonic liberalism, and the global culture of “woke” on the internet to make possible of justifiable laughability and decolonize jokes, parodies, and memes in Thai queer community on the basis of humorous egalitarianism and pragmatism.