Full Description
Asian Canada is Burning is an invitation to trouble the mobilization of "anti-Asian hate" in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together activists, organizers, academic, and artists, this book explores the historical and contemporary conditions that make theorizing "Asian Canadian" feasible. Grounded in a transnational queer and feminist lens, this book also aims to envision possible futures and solidarities. Ultimately, this collection is concerned with moments and places of tensions, confrontations, relations, and solidarity. We offer stories of insurgent encounters as people who identify as "Asian" navigate and implicate settler colonial nation-state to make new dreams, histories and intimacies.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Ian Liujia Tian, Coly Chau and Rose Ann Torres
Part 1
Situating Asia(ns) beyond Settler Canadian Nationalism
2 Tearing Down Walls: Rethinking White Domesticity in the Context of Cultural Domicide
Shelly Ikebuchi
3 Unpacking the Festival of Diwali in Canada: Where Have Rama, Sita, and Lakshman Gone?
Rajni Mala Khelawan
4 Seeking Pappy's Approval
Krystal Jagoo
5 Vulnerable Resisters: Decolonizing Voices of Asian Migrants in a Settler Colonial and Religious Context
Hyejung Jessie Yum
6 Unboxing Our Narrative of Space and Place: An Unsettling Dance of (Un)Belonging
Jose Miguel Esteban
Part 2
Gender, Sexuality and Other Intimacies
7 The Bee
Elisha Lim
8 Labour, Intimacy and Diaspora: Queer Asian Studies in Canada
Ian Liujia Tian
9 The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho Queen
Sam Yoon
10 Love Intersections: Queer Sensibilities and Relationality in Art and Cultural Production
David Ng and Jenn Sungshine
11 Emergent Asian-Canadian Feminisms: Insights from Young Filipina/x Feminist Scholar-Organizers
Monica Batac, Julia Baladad, Psalmae Tesalona, Chloe Rodriguez and France Clare Stohner
Part 3
Building Solidarities
12 The Butterfly Effect: Asian Massage Parlour and Sex Workers and Historical Chinese Laundries Fighting By-Laws and Organizing Towards Justice
Coly Chau and Elene Lam
13 Asian Canadian Workers Organizing: The Making of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance
Anna Liu
14 Love Letters to Asian Canadian Studies: On Ethical Solidarities and Decolonial Futures
Janey Lew
15 Dumpster Fires, Burning Affects
Malissa Phung
16 Internationalist Solidarity: Palestinian Liberation, bds, and the Struggle against Normalization
Boycott, Divest and Sanction Toronto
17 Conclusion: Asian Futurism as Living Labour
Ian Liujia Tian
Index
