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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Susette Min
Introduction: For the Love of Unicorns: Queering Contemporary Asian American Art
by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina
CHAPTER 1 QUEERING SURVEILLANCE
“You Blushed”: Queering Surveillance after 9/11 in the Work of Jill Magid and Hasan Elahi
by Harrod J. Suarez
Performance, Surveillance, and Sousveillance: A Conversation with Wafaa Bilal and Hasan Elahi
by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina
CHAPTER 2 QUEERING TIME
Pacific Standard Time: Queering Temporality in Asian American Visual Cultures
by Mariam B. Lam
Promiscuous Time Traveling (on Leaving and Returns): A Conversation with Lin + Lam and Việt Le
by Laura Kina
CHAPTER 3 QUEERING AFFECT
Filipino Diasporic Queer Killjoy: Recuperating Failure in Jeffrey Augustine Songco’s Guilty Party and BOMH Series
by Jan Christian Bernabe
Negotiating Desire and (Queer) Masculinity: An Interview with Kenneth Tam
by Jan Christian Bernabe
CHAPTER 4 QUEERING METHODOLOGY
Queer Zen: Unyoking Genealogy in Asian American Art History
by Alpesh Kantilal Patel
Pin@y Projections: Urban Spaces, Digital Ephemerality, and Planned Obsolescence: An Interview with Eliza Barrios
by Jan Christian Bernabe
Queer Traveler–on Desiring and Failing Sublime Landscapes: An Interview with Kim Anno
by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina
CHAPTER 5 QUEERING SUBJECTIVITY
Risky Subjectivity: Select Works by Korean Adoptee Artists
by Eun Jung Park
Dazzle: A Conversation on Transgender Subjectivity with Greyson Hong and Kiam Marcelo Junio
by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina
CHAPTER 6 QUEERING MIXED RACE
Liminal Possibilities: Queering Mixed-Race Asian American Strategies in the Art of Maya Mackrandilal and Zave Gayatri Martohardjono
by Laura Kina
Chimera: A Conversation on Mixed Race/Mixed Methods with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Saya Woolfalk
by Laura Kina
CHAPTER 7 QUEERING ASIAN AMERICA
Open-Source Identities: Identity and Resistance in the Work of Three Asian American Artists
by Valerie Soe
Muscles, Mash-Ups and Warning Shots–Queering Japanese American History: An Interview with Tina Takemoto
by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina
The Buddhist Bug—Spanning Borders and Bodies: An Interview with Anida Yoeu Ali
by Laura Kina
Afterword: To be Queer Being to Queer It . . .
by Kyoo Lee
