... are suturing up global governance, East Asia's liberal states, and conservative NGOs into a new power bloc that fosters antiqueer and antisex climates in the region. Duke University Press 2008 Is Global Governance Bad for East Asian Queers? Josephine Ho The rise of transnational systems...

...James Welker This essay examines four books recently published as part of the Queer Asia series, launched by Hong Kong University Press in 2008. These multidisciplinary monographs and edited collections offer a glimpse of the increasing diversity of scholarship in Asian queer studies...

... was introduced to recognize nonfamilial migration. Same-sex migration has been hailed as reflecting Australia's progressive sexual law reform and modernizing Australia's immigration history. Since 1991, more than 7,500 permits have been issued. Between 1991 and 2005, gay Asian migrants made up the largest group...

...David L. Eng This essay reviews two books, M. Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred and Gayatri Gopinath's Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures , both of which focus on the intersections of queer...

... the case of Luka Magnotta, the so-called Montreal gay cannibal killer, who murdered, decapitated, and committed acts of cannibalism and necrophilia on the corpse of Jun Lin, an Asian international student. In reading this case, however, the essay aims not only to demonstrate the racialized distribution...

... rendering queer of color demands nonsensical. Efforts to recuperate shame often replicate consumption practices that feed on the racial other to nourish an unmarked queer body (politic). Wallowing in the rim of abjection, Chin’s oeuvre centers the queer Asian/American to consider that which circulates...

... associated, both in film and in life, are drawn from this character. Given that the long documented history of hijras has made them quite intelligible to South Asian people without the need for translation, this article argues that debates of queer sexuality must go beyond the civilizational terms of “West...

...Rachel Lee In the 2003 concert Cho Revolution , Korean American stand-up comedian Margaret Cho mounts a critique of US empire that focuses on the Asian sex worker as logistical support for the military troops of commodity capitalism. Combining a science and technology studies approach...

... struggles in a movement for the liberation of all peoples on a planetary scale within the framework provided by third world anticolonial and anti-imperialist struggles being waged in African, Asian, and Latin American countries at the time. TWGR and the FLH engaged in “dissident forms of cosmopolitanism...

...Beenash Jafri Abstract What can narratives of suicide tell us about diasporic and Indigenous relationships to the white settler state? This article engages relational critique to examine trans/femme/bisexual South Asian Canadian filmmaker Vivek Shraya's short film I want to kill myself ( 2017...

... evening with a blistering attack on the industry’s racialized erasures, using his signature humor to deliver sharp critiques of Hollywood’s privileged blind spots. For the Asians and Asian Americans in the audience, however, the award cer- emony became another kind of lightning rod, as they found...

... at the Contemporary China Centre, University of Westminster. DOI 10.1215/10642684-8776960 WHAT STICKS Summer Kim Lee Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire Cynthia Wu Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. viii + 208 pp. Sticky rice is a term for gay Asian American men who prefer sexual encounters...

...Mun-Hou Lo Q and A: Queer in Asian America Edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xii + 445 pp. $69.95 cloth, $27.95 paper Duke University Press 2000 GLQ 6.4-05.Lo 10/4/00 10:14 AM Page 609 Book Review...

... University Press , 2014 . ii + 255 pp. A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation . Hoang Nguyen Tan . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . viii + 287 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 difference queer of color critique abjection...

... Association Conference, Adelaide. Dec. 1992 . Chua , Siong-huat “Asian-Americans, Gay and Lesbian.” Encyclopedia of Homosexuality . Ed. Dynes, Wayne. New York: Garland, 1990 . 84 -85. Connors , Michael . “Disordering Democracy: Democratization in Thailand.” Unpublished paper. Melbourne...

... Jerome Aning, “The Philippines has . . . become Canada’s No. 1 source of immigrants and overseas workers, with over 800,000 Filipinos now residing in that country.”4 In the United States, Filipino/ as are the second-­largest Asian population (the first are Chinese/Chinese Ameri- cans), numbering...

..., to recontextualize the foreign gaze that constructs Bangkok as a gay paradise. Focusing on the media’s relationship to macrosocial changes and everyday experi- ence builds on previous scholarship on Thai and Asian transgenderism and same- ­sex eroticism by showing the diversity of depictions...

... relationship to macrosocial changes and everyday experi- ence builds on previous scholarship on Thai and Asian transgenderism and same- ­sex eroticism by showing the diversity of depictions and the complex forces that shape the competing ways through which queer Bangkok can be imagined...

... at the Nanyang Techno- logical University in Fall 2017. He is the author of Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias (2014) and is working on performances of toxic masculinity and queer intoxication in the diminishing US Empire, and Asian megastructures...

...” that Asian American studies, for one, has long sought to deconstruct.19 When we turn to that field, however, the “SURPRISING RECOGNITION”: PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ON GENRE, POETIC FORM, AND EROTICS IN SEDGWICK JOSE GARCIA VILLA’S MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF QUEER DIASPORIC...