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- Introduction: Re-examining Communication and Media Practices in/across
Queer Asia-
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Abstract: The redirection of queer critique towards questions of colonial history, legality, value and devaluation, and new political imaginary within Asia grounds one powerful technique of over- coming queer liberalism in the West.Queer Asia, once an exigent idea, is now an established academic term in the field of queer studies in Asia. Since AsiaPacificQueer Network (2000–2008), an Australia-based consortium, triggered scholarly conversations about Queer Asia "to inscribe queer studies within Asian studies and to locate Asia, and the non-West, within cultural and media studies,"2 we have seen prolific academic concerns about Queer Asia emerge in various academic disciplines. By referring to Kuan-Hsing Chen's provocative ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Differently Chinese, Differently Queer: Queer Chineseness as Heuristic and
Transnational Queer Imaginary-
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Abstract: Queer intercultural communication (QIC) is a vibrant field in the Communication discipline, teeming with solo and collaborative autoethnographic interrogations1 into the thick intersectionality2 of queer of color subjectivity. Heeding the call of this special issue to both problematize Asia as a region and to refashion Asia as an alternative lens, this article takes a duoethnographic approach to explore how queer Chineseness might serve as a heuristic tool and a transnational queer imaginary to challenge the prevalent notion of compulsory heterosexual Chineseness both inside and outside the United States. The writing presents reproduced private moments, not conversation transcripts. These are processed memories ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Atemporal Silence of Aesthetics: Transfeminine Crossplay as Resources
for Genderqueer Experimentation in Singapore-
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Abstract: "Am I serious enough to go for hormone dosages [and lose weight to appear feminine]' I've thought about it quite at length, [on a scale of zero to ten,] I would put it at a seven. … [But] if I really were trying to transition my gender, it would probably have been a nine." This sounds like something that a trans woman intending to transition might have said. However, it is quoted from Vernon, an interviewee who identifies as a cis man, but has actively imagined what it would be like to embody his idealized feminine anime and manga characters with aesthetic fidelity. In the end, Vernon decided not to transition, partly because he feels unable to embody the hyperfeminine aesthetics inspired by anime and manga. Yet ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queer Desi Kinships: Reaching Across Partition
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Abstract: "If there is anything I have learned in my years of homing, though, it is that queers have dreamt into being shelter and kinships that were otherwise unimaginable. They have recorded histories and scripted futures in fugitive tongues."1The term "desi," broadly used to encompass individuals of South Asian heritage, loosely translates to "of the homeland" and comes from the root desh or "homeland." In this article, we explore what it means to seek desh in hostile, straightened, Western contexts that dismiss desi knowledge-making systems; flatten desis into a homogenous identity; discourage desi solidarity; and occupy queer studies as a white and Western domain. As Indian-desi scholars, we employ queer autoethnography ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Artistic Representation of Gender Nonconforming Female Bodies in Social
Media: A Study of Select Indian Graphic Artists on Instagram-
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Abstract: Even though the fourth wave of feminism has Western origins, it emerged concurrently in India due to economic liberation, the advent of technology, and the popularity of social media. Social media tools led to more accessibility, diversity, and political mobility of many feminist and queer causes. Feminist critic Sujatha Subramanian chronicles The Pink Chaddi campaign in 2009 in India as the turning point where the internet became an important tool in feminist activism, in providing a consequence to the present gender inequality of men and women and simultaneously the existing marginalization of the LGBTQIA+ community.1 However, 2012 became a defining year, after the demise of a twenty-three-year-old Delhi rape ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queering Bangladeshi Blogging Networks: Legal Rights, Religious
Fundamentalism, and the Politics of Blog Publics in Bangladeshi LGBTQ+
Activism-
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Abstract: For the first time in the nation's history, the Bangladeshi public observed more than a hundred people from the LGBTQ+ community and their allies taking part in a rainbow themed procession on the morning of April 14, 2014.1 The assembly walked from the Fine Arts Building at Dhaka University to the Intercontinental Hotel on Minto Road, covering roughly two miles in the western district of the capital. Their objective was to visibly advocate for the right to love regardless of gender and sexual orientation and to celebrate diversity, friendship, and same-sex desires that are suppressed and criminalized by Section 377 of the Bangladeshi Penal Code, the legislation that deems nonnormative (nonpenovaginal) acts as ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- My Gender is Precolonial: Transtemporal Minoritarian Aesthetics in
"Diwata"-
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Abstract: Scrolling through the 2021 Southeast Asia Queer Cultural Festival program, I stop at the large thumbnail for "Diwata." My fingers gently atop the touchpad, I lean in and take in the image. I feel the artist looking at me beneath silver waves of hair. The look, knowing of my gaze, sensually lingers amidst the image of coral-like roots, reaching down towards water, earth, or some other life-giving substance. The red color echoes in beautifully monstrous spikes angling out the creature's spine, cutting through the amniotic sac, cinching the whole body into a curl, not quite fetal, but emergent. The artist's arms pull at the wet film clinging to the body. Resisting easy questions of origins, the figure levitates above ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Homo(phobic)nationalism in Chinese Societies: State Support versus
Suppression of LGBTQ Rights-
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Abstract: The Human Rights Campaign publishes a map of countries where same-sex marriage has been legalized.1 This map is a telling demonstration of how very used we are to thinking of the discursive boundaries around sexuality in the term of the political boundaries of nation-state. The mostly reddened areas, including North America, parts of Central and South America, and Western and Northern Europe, supposedly represent progressive values and stand in sharp contrast with the vast blank of greyness in Asia and Africa. On the map, a tiny little red spot appears by the eastern verge of the Asian continent. That is Taiwan, the first Asian polity that legalizes same-sex marriage. In addition, the Human Rights Campaign lists ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Sodomy: A Malaysian Tale
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Abstract: Southeast Asian queer histories have been rooted in indigenous cultures for centuries but the heritage had been diminished or erased entirely due to the various infiltrations of colonial empires and imported multinational religions. From the five genders in Indonesia, the sida sida in the palaces of Malaysia, to the babaylan of the Philippines, spiritual queer presence had always been an integral part of daily community activities and leadership. With the arrival of British colonialism in 1824, the application of sodomy laws transferred an imported fear of queerness into Malayan communities. After independence from the British empire in 1957, the anti-sodomy laws became a mainstay for the new Malaysian government ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queer Talk: Desire and Intimacy in South Asia
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Abstract: The literary critic Barbara Johnson once wrote, "A letter always arrives at its destination since its destination is wherever it arrives."1 A letter's address is determined not by the sender but by the one who receives it, whomever that may be. As itinerant academics, queers, and feminists from South Asia, we contend with the question of address as we mediate distances and forge intimacies despite our multiple dislocations. The intertwined affective registers of alienation, nostalgia, defeat, lust, and humor have long marked our attachments to each other and to the idea of home. But how does one write a queer and feminist history of intimacy in postcolonial South Asia, and its diaspora, where social, sexual, and ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queer Hurting: Tracing Invisible Footprints and Queer Asian Sociality in
Toronto-
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Abstract: In the city in which I was raised, there was an obvious animosity between Canadian-born Chinese (CBCs) and immigrant Fresh Off the Boat Chinese (FOBs), especially at university. Forming two discrete groups, never meeting on middle ground, the CBCs thought of the FOBs as noisy, arrogant, spoiled people who gravitated together and clung to each other in groups. The FOBs pegged the CBCs as phony snobs who tried to pass as white and who had a "holier than thou" attitude. I subscribed to the former sentiment. I never wanted to be associated with the FOBs who, in my opinion, did their best to perpetuate the negative stereotype that made the "the rest of us look bad."After coming out to family and friends, I still took ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia ed. by James Welker
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Abstract: The term "Boys Love" is the genre name for manga (comics), literature, film, TV dramas, and other media about male–male romance and sex that is usually produced by and for heterosexual girls and women. Normally abbreviated to BL, it replaces an obsolete Japanese term yaoi (still in play, however, in some Anglophone settings). Although BL media in Japan has been theorized and studied by critics and scholars at least since the 1980s, this collection takes us on a ride across Asia, at times to previously unexplored pockets of production and fandom. This highly accessible and knowledgeable volume illustrates the way popular culture is modified in local contexts, creating new audiences, new meanings, and new mash-ups. ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics by
Shinsuke Eguchi (review)-
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Abstract: In Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics, Shinsuke Eguchi explores "sticky rice" vernacular discourses. Here, "sticky rice" refers to Asian men who have sexual or romantic interest in other Asian men, while vernacular discourses are those that engage local and/or marginalized communities. Drawing on intersectionality, queer theory, disidentification, and critical intercultural communication, Eguchi engages queer of color critique as a methodological approach for analyzing sticky rice vernacular discourses. The book is intentionally structured to transition from "macro" to "meso" to "micro" levels of analysis, moving from an exploration of media representations to structured interviews ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality,
and Chineseness by Jamie J. Zhao (review)-
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Abstract: This is the first book that focuses on the LGBTQ community in China. Through the analysis of Chinese television series, television programs, and fan phenomena after 2010, the author presents a not very white, Chinese-inspired perspective on queer identities in China or in Chinese contexts through multiple perspectives (local, international, and transregional), and points out some of the ambiguous and generalized concepts that exist in the media performances. Zhao defined and explained the blurry concepts and boundaries of gender or sexual orientation exist in the media. In addition, Zhao analyzes the representation and redistribution of queer identity in the media, arguing that politics, gender binary, toxic ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Moonlit Winter dir. by Lim Dae-hyung (review)
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Abstract: Moonlit Winter (original Korean title: "윤희에게," denoting "To Yoon-hee" in Korean) is directed and written by Lim Dae-hyung and was released in 2019. The film is about a hidden love story of two women, Yoon-hee and Jun, and its realistic and relatable performances, including star actress Kim Hee-ae, counterbalance the marketing challenges often faced by low-budget, female-led, and queer films. The story starts with one day when Yoon-hee's daughter, Sae-bom, discovers a letter revealing her mother's first love. Sae-bom prompts a trip to Otaru, Japan, where Jun resides and plans secretly a meeting for Yoon-hee and Jun. On the last night of the trip, Yoon-hee and Jun finally reunite on a bridge, where they walk and talk ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Fire Island dir. by Andrew Ahn (review)
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Abstract: Hulu's Fire Island centers on a diverse, working-class friend group on vacation in the namesake of the film, Fire Island. Fire Island is a unique kind of coming-of-age film, one that examines precarious points of adult life, and the unique situations of Asian, gay men looking for love. The two protagonists of the film are Noah (portrayed by screenwriter Joel Kim-Booster) and Howie (portrayed by Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang). The two Asian gay men's friendship is the anchor and emotional center of the film. Both Noah and Howie find love on the island and engage in moments of self-reflection and discovery, all while navigating romantic desire and letting loose with their friends. What begins as an examination of ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Kinou Nani Tabeta' (劇場版 きのう何食べた？[What Did You Eat
Yesterday']) dir. by Kazuhito Nakae (review)-
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Abstract: Based on a critically acclaimed manga series written by Fumi Yoshinaga, What Did You Eat Yesterday' spotlights a daily life of a middle-aged cisgender gay Japanese couple, Shiro Kakei and Kenji Yabuki living in Tokyo, Japan. Since the first appearance of the manga in 2007, the live-action TV drama was released on TV Tokyo, Japan's mainstream media production in 2019. The story follows Shiro (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima), a meticulous lawyer who has not come out as gay in public, and Kenji (played by Seiyo Uchino), an openly gay and outgoing hairstylist. In my review of this film, I direct my attention towards two critical questions: What is the significance of the film in relation to Queer Asia' How does the film ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desires by Gershun
Avilez (review)-
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Abstract: Gershun Avilez's Black Queer Freedom positions space as central to engagements of queer possibilities, freedom, and futures. With holistic review of queerness space, injury, and desire, Avilez theorizes about the multidimensionality of injuries experienced by and constituting queer living. Avilez operationalizes path to queer desires as methodic way of teaching, understanding, and responding to hegemonic articulations of normativity and theorizes space-making as strategic and necessary transformative act to counter heteronormative ideologies and assumptions of space. Avilez does these in two parts of four chapters where the body and its ownership—private and public—privacy and control are all complexly theorized. ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- So Now You Know: Growing Up Gay in India by Vivek Tejuja (review)
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Abstract: Vivek Tejuja's memoir So Now You Know: Growing up Gay in India is an honest, light-hearted yet heart-breaking tale of his experience growing up gay in India. Tejuja is a queer writer at Verve Magazine and the author of the blog The Hungry Reader. His articles include his experiences navigating his gay desire in the world of online dating and body image issues in the Indian cultural milieu. The memoir is a journey of sexual awakening of the author, his teen love for his best friend Deepak, tackling high school and his conservative family and his love for movies, music and art. It's a journey chronicling all the relationships that played a role in the author's rejections, isolation and eventual self-discovery. The ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality by Ela Przybylo
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Abstract: During my time as a graduate student getting my master's in creative writing, I attended a great deal of workshops. The piece I was working on was a novella where the main character begins to question their sexuality and the plot deliberately does not provide a satisfactory resolution to that question. Throughout the workshops, my peers would insist that I needed to write a sex scene; they believed the story was so steeped in eroticism that to not have a sex scene would both alienate my readers and be a disservice to the novella. In the end, I conceded; yet, because the eroticism was fundamentally nonsexual in nature, the result was a scene that did not satisfy my classmates' lust or really feel like it belonged in ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover by Annie Sprinkle and
Beth Stephens with Jennie Klein (review)-
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Abstract: A stranger to the world of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens might arrive at this book perplexed. Is it a thick academic text or a coffee table book' Is it safe for kids' Is it a joke' This book is all the above. Coming from the worlds of postporn feminist performance art and environmentalist filmmaking, respectively, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens teamed up with the art historian Jennie Klein to contextualize the archive of work they have created over the past twenty years. Sprinkle is an artist and former sex worker with a PhD in human sexuality and Stephens holds a PhD in performance studies and is the founder of E.A.R.T.H. Lab (a collaborative eco-art space) at University of California, Santa Cruz. Working at ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique by
Patricia Stuelke (review)-
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Abstract: There is no shortage of critiques of Eve Sedgwick's seminal "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading" and the scholarly work developed in its wake, which notably includes Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus's "Surface Reading" and Rita Felski's The Limits of Critique. Patricia Stuelke's ambitious new monograph, The Ruse of Repair, expands upon this previous criticism, locating the origins of queer and literary studies' reparative turn in the rise of the U.S. neoliberal empire across the Americas during the late 1970s and 1980s. She argues that today's interpretive practices that emphasize emotional attachment, "weak" theory, and other so-called reparative approaches are "more historically specific than [they] might ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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- Me Hijra, Me Laxmi by Laxmi Narayan Tripathi (review)
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Abstract: Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is a trans activist, an actor, and an author of a series of two autobiographies, Me Hijra, Me Laxmi and Red Lipstick: The Men in my Life. The autobiography is a detailed and insightful account of how Laxmi Narayan, the eldest son in the family finds her identity as a woman and a hijra. The title itself suggests a strong affirmation to her identity as trans woman, as in fact, language is performative in nature. Hijra autobiography is a latest addition to the Indian literary circles, apart from women's autobiography, which is an established genre. The first hijra autobiography was published in 2007 by Vidya, titled I am Vidya, which gave a way for "othered" trans identities a mode of ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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