Description: Diasporic Intimacies is a collection of essays by scholars, artists, and activists about queer Filipinos in Canada. Including performances, interviews, and essays, the contributors consider how queer Filipinos enrich the frameworks used to examine LGBTQ lives in critical ethnic, diasporic, and sexuality studies.
Review Quotes: "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