In his book, Chris Eng elaborates on camp as a prevalent yet understudied cultural strategy for contesting accounts of Asian American history that overly rely on terms of abjection. This talk focuses on the research process by which he arrived at this claim and the queer methods he deployed in navigating scholarly discourses that render Asian American camp improper or unthinkable. As a counterpoint, he elucidates the creativity of Asian American artists who wield camp aesthetics in speculating about the possibility for pleasure and joy within structures of constraint.