Diasporic Intimacies

"Diasporic Intimacies is, without question, an ambitious and important collection that draws together new archives that illuminate the cultural productions, performances, histories, and experiences of queer Filipinos/as in Canada. This formally innovative anthology provides rich material for students and scholars of queer studies, Asian North American studies, performances studies, and diaspora studies." —Denise Cruz, author of Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina
 

“This volume offers not just works to be read but triggers to enable and encourage radical thoughts, alternative behavior or attitudes, and progressive ways of being in the world.” —Martin F. Manalansan IV, from the afterword 

"Diasporic Intimacies stands as an example of disruptive scholarship within diasporic Filipino contemporary art and visual culture studies and Filipino diaspora studies writ large. It pushes readers to consider the work of the arts in diasporic Filipino communities outside the US-Philippine binary, outside a cis-heteronormative 'family' framework, and outside a gay male Filipino or bakla-centric lens . . . Diasporic Intimacies shatters liberal, multiculturalist fantasies of Canada by exposing its rootedness and commitment to the lived Filipinx Canadian queer experiences. The work also pivots to non-academic readers through its accessibility. The collection should remind scholars and curators alike of the ethical parameters of their work. That is to say, respect for the communities that sustain their intellectual and creative projects should always inform the output of their work." —Jan Christian Bernabe, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas