Q & A : voices from queer Asian North America

Publication/Creation:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Q & A : voices from queer Asian North America / edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo ; preface by David L. Eng

Series Titles:

Asian American history and culture
Asian American history and culture.

Related/Included Titles:

Q & A (Temple University Press : 1998)

Variant Titles:

Q and A
Voices from queer Asian North America

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Additional Author/Creators:

Manalansan, Martin F., 1960-, editor
Hom, Alice Y., 1967-, editor
Fajardo, Kale Bantigue, editor
Eng, David L., 1967-, writer of preface

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Asian American gay people--Social conditions
Asian American lesbians--Social conditions
Asian American bisexual people--Social conditions
Gay people--North America--Identity
Lesbians--North America--Identity
Transgender people--North America--Identity
Bisexual people--North America--Identity
Queer theory
Asian American gay men
Asian American LGBTQ+ people
Asian American lesbians
Asian American bisexual people
Bisexual people of color
Gay identity
Sexual identity
Lesbian identity
Transgender identity
Gender identity
Bisexual identity
Theories
Gender

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

List of Figures -- Preface / David L. Eng -- Journeys, Itineraries, Horizons: An Introduction / Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo -- 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: Science, Geopolitics, and the Queer Genealogy of the "Chinese Jew" / Jih-Fei Cheng -- 4. "Sewing Patches through Performance" and "Courses in Brown Love" / 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 -- Queer Unsettlings: Geographies, Sovereignties. 7. "Khmer Alphabet," "Galaxies Like Blood," "Teeth and Chairs (Phnom Penh)," "Pornography of Days," "LDR (Amsterdam ssà 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 US-Mexican Borderlands / Sony Coráñez Bolton -- 10. Queer South Asian Desire, Blackness, and the Apartheid State / Vanita Reddy -- 11. Pinkwashing, Tourism, and the (In)visibility of Israeli State Violence / Jennifer Lynn Kelly -- 12. Asian Settler Abstraction and Administrative Aloha / Reid Uratani -- 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 Millenials: 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 -- Messing up the Archives and Circuits of Desire. 18. inspector of journals makes introductions: Fan & Basket plot escape from Peabody Essex Museum / 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/a/o/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 -- Burning Down the House-Institutional Queerings. 24. Model/Minority Veteran: The Queer Asian American Challenge to Post-9/11 US 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 -- Mediating Queer. 30. In which I watch Youtube to watch fan video edits of you For Nico Minoru on Marvel's Runaways / Kay Ulanday Barrett -- 31. PhilippinExcess: 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: QTPOC Tarot in Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki's Skim / Christine "Xine" Yao -- Finding One's Way: Routes of Lives and Bodies. 36. Loving Our Children, Finding Our Way / Marsha Aizumi -- 37. Needles + Cushions: a reflection on memory / Syd Yang -- 38. Queercore Prepped Me For Cancer / Leslie Mah -- 39. This One Body / Maiana Minahal -- 40. Mamang Or Death in Vegas / Karen Tongson -- 41. To Fukaya Michiyo / traci kato-kiriyama.

Summary:

"This book offers a vibrant array of contemporary Asian North American LGBT scholarship and cultural productions from essays, poetry, visual art, and memoirs of activists and scholars"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xiii, 437 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

General Note:

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.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937387166602486

ISBN:

9781439921081
1439921083
9781439921098
1439921091

OCLC Number:

1200581108

Barcode:

010003489400