Q&A : Voices from Queer Asian North America

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This book is a follow-up to Q & A: Queer in Asian America edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, published in 1998. Contents List of Figures Preface / David L. Eng Journeys, Itineraries, Horizons: An Introduction / Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo Part I. Enduring Spaces and Bodies 1. “Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg Fu Yung, Fortune Cookie Always Wrong” / Danni Lin 2. All the Pinays are straight, all the queers are Pinoy, but some of us / Kimberly Alidio 3. The Hybridity of Race: Genetics, Geopolitics, and the Queer Genealogy of the “Chinese Jew” / Jih-Fei Cheng 4. Sewing Patches through Performance / D’Lo 5. nine genealogies (of un/belonging) / Patti Duncan 6. Lateral Diasporas and Queer Adaptations in Fresh Off the Boat and The Family Law / Douglas S. Ishii Part II. Queer Unsettlings: Geographies, Sovereignties 7. “Khmer Alphabet,” “Galaxies Like Blood,” “Teeth and Chairs (Phnom Penh),” “Pornography of Days,” “LDR (Amsterdam San Francisco) (for Wai),” “Samsara,” “‘Eighteen Levels of Hell’ (Đại Nam Amusement Park, Sài Gòn),” “Impossible Poem” / Việt Lê 8. You’re Here, You’re Queer, but You’re Still a Tourist / Kim Compoc 9. Filipinx and Latinx Queer Critique: Houseboys and Housemaids in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands / Sony Coráñez Bolton 10. Queer South Asian Desire, Blackness, and the Apartheid State / Vanita Reddy 11. Pinkwashing, Tourism, and Israeli State Violence / Jennifer Lynn Kelly 12. Asian Settler Abstraction and Administrative Aloha / Reid Uratani Part III. Building Justice: Queer Movements in Asian North America 13. In All Our Splendid Selves: A Roundtable Discussion on Queer API Activism in Three Political Moments / Eric Estuar Reyes and Eric C. Wat 14. Manservants to Millennials: A Brief Queer APA History / Amy Sueyoshi 15. From Potlucks to Protests: Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API Communities / Sasha Wijeyeratne 16. Sing Freedom, Sing / Kim Tran 17. Building a Queer Asian Movement: Building Communities and Organizing for Change / Glenn D. Magpantay Part IV. Messing up the Archives and Circuits of Desire 18. inspector of journals makes introductions: Fan & Basket plot escape from Peabody Essex Museum/a birthright / Ching-In Chen 19. On (En)countering the Archival Sidekick / Joyce Gabiola 20. Camp Objects: Orientalist Kitsch and Trashy Re-Collections of the Japanese American Incarceration / Chris A. Eng 21. Asian Men and the Construction of Racial Desire on Craigslist / C. Winter Han 22. “I Think I’ll Be More Slutty”: The Promise of Queer Pilipinx American Desire on Mobile Digital Apps in Los Angeles and Manila / Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza 23. (Re)Generations: A Queer Korean American Diasporic Response / Anthony Yooshin Kim and Margaret Rhee Part V. Burning Down the House—Institutional Queerings 24. Model/Minority Veteran: The Queer Asian American Challenge to Post-9/11 U.S. Military Culture / Long T. Bui 25. Disrupting Normative Choreographies: Queer Asian Canadian Interventions Making a Mess with/in a “Too Asian” University / John Paul Catungal 26. Open in Emergency: On Queer(ing) Asian American Mental Health / Mimi Khúc 27. Religion and Ritual in the Lives of Queer Filipinx in Canada / May Farrales 28. Coming Back Around to a Place of Grace: A Personal Theological Reflection and Journey by a 1.5 Generation Korean American Transman / Sung Won Park 29. “Save the Thai Temple”: Wat Mongkolratanaram, Thai America, and the Heteronormative Logics of South Berkeley / Pahole Sookkasikon Part VI. Mediating Queer 30. In Which I Watch YouTube to Watch Fan Video Edits of You: For Nico Minoru on Marvel’s Runaways; “Anomaly: a poem sponsored by TSA”; “You Are SO Brave: A Found Poem” / Kay Ulanday Barrett 31. PhilippinExcess: Cunanan, Criss, Queerness, Multiraciality, Midwesternness, and the Cultural Politics of Legibility / Thomas Xavier Sarmiento 32. Balang’s Dance: Puro Arte as Queer Affect / Casey Mecija 33. “I Will Always Love You”: Queer Filipino Performances of Blackness, Death, and Return / Thea Quiray Tagle 34. The Opposite of Performance: M. Butterfly in 2017 / Emily Raymundo 35. The Craft: QTBIPOC Tarot in Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim / Xine Yao Part VII. Finding One’s Way: Routes of Lives and Bodies 36. Loving Our Children, Finding Our Way / Marsha Aizumi 37. Needles and Cushions: A Reflection on Memory / Syd Yang 38. Queercore Prepped Me for Cancer / Leslie Mah 39. This One Body: An Excerpt from a Multimedia Poetry Performance in Progress / Maiana Minahal 40. Mamang, or Death in Vegas / Karen Tongson 41. To Fukaya Michiyo / Traci Kato-Kiriyama About the Contributors Index