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Queering the Asian Diaspora by Hongwei Bao is an intellectually engaging book that makes timely interventions to the fields of diaspora studies, queer theory, and transnational studies. It invites the reader into an electrifying archive of queer cultural productions ranging from fashion photography, experimental drag performance, queer weddings, queer curation, digital film and media, and artistic conjuring of a queer Bandung internationalism.
‘Hongwei Bao rejects both the cultural essentialism that often underpins mainstream Asian politics and the narrow identitarian frameworks of Western queer discourse. By bringing diasporic Asia into critical dialogue with queer theory, his argument disrupts normative assumptions about belonging, intimacy, and political solidarity.
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Spanning art, film, digital media, fashion photography, and performance from the first quarter of the century, this book explores the ways that queer artists and activists from various diasporic populations mobilise cultural production to form identities, create communities, and intervene politically. Hongwei Bao rejects both the cultural essentialism that often underpins mainstream Asian politics and the narrow identitarian frameworks of Western queer discourse.
