"Japan Can Halt the Threat of Sino-U.S. (Cold) War"

My short essay, "Japan Can Halt the Threat of Sino-U.S. (Cold) War," won an essay contest for the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington!

- JASSW link to essay
- Northwest Asian Weekly blurb

"Rethinking Yaoi on the Regional and Global Scale"

Excited to release my essay "Rethinking Yaoi on the Regional and Global Scale" in the journal Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific!

Also, someone on their blog graciously translated the essay into Chinese!

Graduate school work (part 2)

Marxism and Queer of Color Critique
(2012, 12pgs)

"The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights"

Check out my essay published today at Religion Dispatches!  A critical critique of national LGBT rights-based strategies given the Mormon context

Graduate school work (part 1)

Now that I'm in a Ph.D. program, I don't want to think that all my previous work is too amateurish for the world to see!

Remembering Mahāpajāpatī: Buddhism, Feminism and Humility
(2009, 12pgs)

Mormons in Pride Parades -- A Critical Reflection

I had hoped this opinion piece would show up in the next issue of Sunstone Magazine.  Alas, I've been informed Romney will take up 99% of it.  I would've thought at least 47% would be dedicated to other topics... ah well.

This past summer for the first time, Mormons marched in Pride parades in substantial numbers, a fact that deserves critical attention.  I believe what follows provides some of that attention, as I consider the possibility that the Church's institutional heterosexism was extended more than disrupted.

(Anti)Homophobia, Capitalism and Yaoi “Politics”

Click for my post at Yaoi Research.  (Web Archive link)

On Mormon Patriarchy and Homophobia

A short essay for your reading pleasure:

"Mormon and Queer at the Crossroads" released!

The Spring 2011 issue of Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought was released this week, and as
promised, here's a

copy of my 32-page article "Mormon and Queer at the Crossroads."

(Yay!)

Racialized Domestic Servitude and the Perfect Mormon Housewife

Click for my post at Main Street Plaza.