Photos by MK

Teenage Chinese Dyke Gangs

hongqing is the fastest growing urban centre in the world. According to The Guardian, its population increases by half a million people each year.

So is it any wonder that there are probably around a hundred lesbian gangs scattered around the city? There’s got to be at least a little bit of everything there, right? For the most part these 16- to 18-year-old girls are not a threat to you. They don’t hurt anyone but each other.

MK is a 21-year-old Chinese filmmaker who became fascinated with Chinese lesbo gangsters when he accidentally tried to pick one up in a bar in Chongqing, thinking she was a boy (he’s a gay). That’s when he discovered that ever since the country voted an androgynous girl as number one Super Girl in the Chinese version of X-Factor (her official title was the Mongolian Cow Sour Yoghurt Super Girl), looking like a lesbian has become the hottest thing in China since congee with pork and thousand-year-old egg.

But while it may be cute to watch two baby-faced girl-boys share ice cream cones on a street corner in their baggy little skater-boy clothes, if you ever see any rival dykes roll up and start squealing threats, back away and find a safe place to watch. You won’t believe how these girls fight.

“I was hanging with my friend Kee-Kee in my office,” says MK, “when a rival girl and two of her friends showed up for what they call a ‘revenge beating.’ They came in and started yelling at each other. I managed to defuse the situation, but just as the rival girl was leaving she gave Kee-Kee a look that was perhaps one second too long. That was the trigger. Kee-Kee grabbed one of the glass water bottles on the table and started hammering the girl in the face. Then the girl’s two friends jumped Kee-Kee. They had a weird way of fighting. Instead of punching, they slammed into each other. Imagine trying to knock down a door. That’s what they do. One girl got hold of an RCA cable and just started whipping Kee-Kee in random places. Another girl was body-slamming her. After the table was half-flipped, she got hold of a chair and hit her with it. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”

RAF KATIGBAK


The Top 5 Cult Suicides Of Our Times

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1: Movement For The Restoration Of The 10 Commandments Of God
Deaths: Between 1000–1500
Location: Kanungu, Uganda.
Date: March 17th, 2000
Method: Having a fest of beef and Coca-Cola and locking themselves in a burning church

2: Peoples Temple
Deaths: 914 (276 of whom were kids)
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
Date: November 18th, 1978

Method: Ingestion of Cyanid and Valium mixed with Flavor Aid. The ones that tried to escape where shot or strangled by the rest.

3: Branch Davidians
Deaths: 76
Location: Waco, Texas
Date: April 19th, 1993

Method: Burned alive at their compound but it’s still unclear who set the fire.

4: Solar Temple
Deaths: 74
Location: Switzerland, Canada and France
Date: Between 1994 and 1997

Method: Drugged and shot in the head but it’s unclear who pulled the trigger

5: Heaven’s Gate
Deaths: 39
Location: San Diego, California.
Date: March 26th, 1997

Method: Phenobarbital mixed with vodka and plastic bags wrapped on their heads. They died in their sleep.

NINA WERNER