Tuesday, February 18, 2025 3pm to 4:30pm
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How we grasp care through transnational flows of queer/feminist discourses? “Care” is a major keyword in Anglophone academic and activist contexts, used with increasing frequency in the so-called “post-COVID” era by feminists and queers and coupled with concepts such as transformative justice, decolonizing therapy, and so on. In places such as the U.S. and U.K., POC feminist and LGBTQ+ communities face more immediately recognizable pressures of heteronormativity and racism but also suffer from discrimination and violence within their own spaces, pointing to the urgency of issues of care. This talk introduces U.S.- and U.K.-based queer/woman of color feminist perspectives on care, examining tensions that appear when related concepts move into Japanese- and Chinese-language contexts, or they are utilized in Asian diasporic activism in Western countries. When “care” shaped by Anglophone legacies of queer women of color feminisms encounters historical and political contexts of Asia, what forms of contradiction and violence do we find embedded within these acts of translation? On the other hand, what potential lies in these transnational and translingual cultural flows?
This talk analyzes challenges faced by queer/feminist global Asian communities. At the same time, the speaker reflects upon their positionality as a Taiwanese American queer feminist in Hong Kong and the disorientations/reorientations of living between the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Grace En-yi Ting is an assistant professor of gender studies at the University of Hong Kong specializing in queer feminist approaches to Japanese studies, particularly women writers and girls’ culture. Her recent work engages with frameworks of Global Asias by reorienting Japanese literature through transnational flows of queer/feminist texts and politics circulating between Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Asian America. She also writes on problems of marginalization involving race and gender in the academy. She has been interviewed on feminist and LGBT+ issues in East Asia as well as anti-Asian violence by CNN, TIME, The China Project, and RTHK The Pulse.
This event it part of the Ito Center LGBTQ Studies Speaker Series
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