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...Karin Quimby Duke University Press 2003 THE STORY OF JO Literary Tomboys, Little Women, and the Sexual-Textual Politics of Narrative Desire Karin Quimby Few would have imagined that a girl like Jo March, the tomboy heroine of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel Little Women, who exclaims...

...Kale Bantigue Fajardo Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Filipino seamen in metro Manila (Philippines), the San Francisco Bay Area (California), and the Pacific Ocean, this essay examines how heterogeneous Filipino masculinities (heterosexual and transgender tomboy) are cocreated...

...Kale Bantigue Fajardo In “Queering and Transing the Great Lakes: Filipino/a Tomboy Masculinities and Manhoods across Waters,” I use a Filipino/a queer trans (transnational/transgender/transwaters) and postcolonial approach to examine Nice Rodriguez's semiautobiographical fiction in his/her...

...Ariel M. Dela Cruz This article examines the site of the home in Baby Ruth Villarama's 2016 documentary Sunday Beauty Queen to better understand how tomboy migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong mess up and queer domesticity. By focusing on the appearances in the film of the home of Leo Selomenio...

...” of lesbian and gay identities, individual female subjectivities are much more complex and layered. In Padang, West Sumatra tombois and their girlfriends, who identify themselves as masculine and feminine, access global circuits of queer knowledge and see themselves as part of a global community, but maintain...

..., “Transportation: Seamen and Tomboys in Ports and at Sea,” continues the work of undermining such dominant tactics and images. Fajardo notes how his own “subject position, embodiment, and identification as tomboy” facilitated the exchange of memories and stories with Filipino seamen regarding their friend...

..., “Transportation: Seamen and Tomboys in Ports and at Sea,” continues the work of undermining such dominant tactics and images. Fajardo notes how his own “subject position, embodiment, and identification as tomboy” facilitated the exchange of memories and stories with Filipino seamen regarding their friend...

... and Tomboys in Ports and at Sea,” continues the work of undermining such dominant tactics and images. Fajardo notes how his own “subject position, embodiment, and identification as tomboy” facilitated the exchange of memories and stories with Filipino seamen regarding their friend- ships with tomboys...

..., “Transportation: Seamen and Tomboys in Ports and at Sea,” continues the work of undermining such dominant tactics and images. Fajardo notes how his own “subject position, embodiment, and identification as tomboy” facilitated the exchange of memories and stories with Filipino seamen regarding their friend...

... and Tomboys in Ports and at Sea,” continues the work of undermining such dominant tactics and images. Fajardo notes how his own “subject position, embodiment, and identification as tomboy” facilitated the exchange of memories and stories with Filipino seamen regarding their friend- ships with tomboys...

..., an activist involved in several groups in the Philippines, remarked, “It’s so impos- sible to break away from the LGBT moniker, because it’s so widely used. I think a more profitable way of going about it is to talk about LGBT as [including] bakla, bayot, tomboy, and transgender.”10...

... 2008 About the Contributors Evelyn Blackwood is associate professor in anthropology and women’s studies at Purdue University. She has published on a number of topics, including Native American female two-spirits, tombois in Indonesia, gender and power, matrilineal kinship...

... city such as Hong Kong. The joys and pains of their relationship become understandable for the public. AN UNRULY DEATH: QUEER MEDIA IN HONG KONG 609 Another story, titled “Joey’s Mom Brings TomBoy to See Parents,” begins with a voyeuristic account...

... a PhD and an MA in American studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Ariel M. Dela Cruz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Their doctoral research examines how Filipinx tomboys engage in and reimagine care work across...

... city such as Hong Kong. The joys and pains of their relationship become understandable for the public. AN UNRULY DEATH: QUEER MEDIA IN HONG KONG 609 Another story, titled “Joey’s Mom Brings TomBoy to See Parents,” begins with a voyeuristic account...

... region, Kale Bantigue Fajardo maps the seemingly intractable contours of Filipino/a queer and gender-­nonconforming “tomboy” subjectivity. By read- ing Throw It to the River, a collection of short stories by the Filipino immigrant queer writer Nice Rodriguez, Fajardo unravels...

..., or become identified by others, as LGBTQ (or, as discussed by the authors in this volume, tomboys, queens, matis, malungos, novios, and amigos, among others).7 Thus queer migration scholarship insists on recovering, theorizing, and valorizing histories and subjects that have been largely rendered...

... potential in queer remakings of home in Hong Kong. Dela Cruz explores the carework performed by Filipino tomboy Leo Selomenio, a domestic worker and organizer of migrant laborers’ beauty pageants as shown in the 2016 documentary Sunday Beauty Queen . Selomenio—exceptional among Filipino domestic workers...

... of sameness in desiring same works best for gay Indo- nesians who are differentiated from waria because they desire “the same.” Lesbi, generally either masculine tombois or cewek/femmes, may not perceive themselves as “same” in the same way, a point Boellstorff indexes by opting...