Queer Asia : decolonising and reimagining sexuality and gender / edited by J. Daniel Luther and Jennifer Ung Loh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ung Loh, Jennifer, editor.

Luther, J. Daniel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities.

Queer theory.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books Ltd, 2019.

Summary:

A comprehensive, far-reaching study of queer identities and communities across Asia, re-envisioning the queer through Asian perspectives.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

References

Introduction

Positionality

Decolonise

'Queer' and Asia

Structure

Notes

PART I: NEGOTIATIONS

One: Under Empire and the Modern State: Unravelling 'Queer Precarities' inside Global Assemblages

Assembling a Coherent Body: Rewriting the Hijra as a 'Third Gender' in South Asian History

State/NGO Propaganda and the Creation of Imposed Subjectivities

Queer Assemblages as Queer Precarities

Conceptualising a South Asian 'Queer' Solidarity

Can There Be a 'Queer Asia'?

Two: Reimagining HIV in Indonesian Online Media: A Discussion of Two Recent Indonesian Web Series

Conclusion

Three: Rich in Desire: Sexualities and Fantasies Deriving from Poverty, Stigmatisation, and Oppression

The Lucky One (宠儿, 2011, 36 minutes)

Love You Too (也爱你, 2017, 16 minutes)

Yvo and Chrissy (如此生活, 2017, 64 minutes)

Yvo

Chrissy

Rich in Desires

Queer and Rebel in Desires

Desiring to Express

Four: Mithliyy, mithlak: Language and LGBTQ Activism in Lebanon and Palestine

A Rainbow Dictionary: LGBTQ Neologisms

Code-Switching and the Arab Queer

Ana shaz, 'I Am a Deviant'

Online references

Five: Interview with Alana Eissa: Trans Activism in Malaysia and the UK Asylum Process

Can you speak a little about the context in Malaysia: in particular, how LGBT issues are unrepresented, restrictive laws, and dominant cultural practices that affect how LGBTQ communities live and exist?.

One of the interesting facts about the population in Malaysia is the different racial, ethnic, and religious communities, and different languages. So, are these burgeoning LGBTQ communities crossing cultural and racial categories? Is this happening at all, where their LGBT identity transcends other parts of identity, or are people more likely to organise among those they know?

Can you speak about LGBTQ communities and movements in Malaysia?

To what extent are trans issues located within LGBT organisations or groups or movements, or are trans issues seen as separate, and what are your experiences of this?

You brought up the issue of access to hormones. In Malaysia, how is access to hormones gained? What are your experiences of access to hormones and healthcare in the UK?

In addition, your experiences of the asylum process brought up the issue of naming and identification and problems you faced. Can you comment on this?

PART II: TRACES AND AMBIGUITIES

Six: Queer Desires and Satirised Empires: Notes on Aubrey Menen's A Conspiracy of Women (1965)

Queer Lines on Alexander the Great

'To Make Love in Foreign Ways'

Imperial Encounters ... and Analogies

Some Conclusions

Seven: Queer Objects: An Archive for the Future

Scenario Planning

In Context

In but Not of Singapore

In but Not of An-Archive

Queer Archive as Subjugated Knowledge

National Registration Identity Card

The Invisible Dilator

Annex: Statement to the Press by Loo Zihan, 12 February 2016

Eight: The Isolated Queer Body: Harisu's Dodo Cosmetics Advertisement

Harisu's Dodo Cosmetics Advertisement

Laneige Cosmetics Advertisements from 1995 to the Present

The Isolated Queer Body

References.

Nine: Interview with Floyd Scott Tiogangco: Filmmaking and Gender Expression in the Philippines

What is the current state of LGBTQ+ movements in Manila?

What has been the impact of Spanish and American colonisation on sexual diversity in the Philippines?

We loved learning about your work in the film Slay (Roque, 2017) that was premiered in the UK at the 'Queer' Asia Film Festival in the British Museum in June 2018. How did you come to be involved with the film and the work it does, and about the process of identifying as a homosexual, trans-androgynous, genderqueer person?

How does the use of Tagalog, Beki language, and language generally, challenge ideas of identity and gender based on anglophone identities?

PART III: COALITIONS AND FRACTURES

Ten: Intersex Advocacy in Chinese/Sinophone Contexts: A Primer, Accompanied by an Interview with Activist Small Luk

Intersex Rights in Hong Kong or Chinese Contexts

Interaction with the Global Movement: Engagement with the UN Human Rights System

Regional Advocacy: The 2017 Hong Kong Statement

' 人' (Yin-Yang Person) or 性人 (Middle Sex Person)

Concluding Remarks: Intersex Rights at Cultural Crossroads

Interview with Small Luk, 17 April 2018

Bibliography

Eleven: Queer Asia's Body without Organs: In the Making of Queer/Decolonial Politics

The Decolonial Queer Praxes That Queer Asia Encounters, or Creates

Queer Asia's Self-Problematisation as a Method to Resist Coloniality

'Queer Asia' as the Reflective Body without Organs of Queer Asia(s)

Twelve: Feminist and Queer Perspectives in West Asia: Complicities and Tensions

Historical Complicities

Emergence of Queer Feminist Spaces

Rainbow Contestations

Thirteen: Interview with Alqumit Alhamad: Art and Intersections from Syria to Sweden

Your art represents a powerful expression of gender, sexuality, and violence. How did your art evolve over the period of your journey and struggles from Syria to Sweden?

How does your art help you challenge ideas of sex and gender in Syrian communities, and when did you start using art to discuss issues around sexuality?

A lot of the transformation in your art has also been about the journey you undertook as a refugee migrating from Syria to Sweden. How has your struggle been a part of your activism and art?

How has your work as an activist changed and evolved from when you left Syria and to your outreach work now in Sweden?

Note

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

978-1-35022-208-3

9781786995841

1786995840

9781786995834

1786995832

OCLC:

1091238566