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