Queering the Transpacific: Race and Sexuality across the U.S. and Japanese Empires

Submitted my dissertation to the UW grad school. Here’s the abstract (in English and 日本語):

"Asian Racialization and the Early 20th-Century Queering of Empire"

Paper abstract for the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Washington, D.C.
(Conference canceled due to Covid-19 ☹️).

Update: Will present this at the 2021 Association for Asian Studies conference (online) instead!

2019 Mormon Policy on LGBT members

Given my extensive previous work on the topic, I figured I'd offer brief thoughts on a recent newsworthy event: "Who is Actually Being Served by the Exclusion Policy Reversal?"

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Transpacific

A chapter of my dissertation focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois and the twists and turns of racial capitalism during the interwar, particularly the issue of U.S.-Japan imperial competition. While Du Bois erred in supporting the Japanese Empire, his mistake is not well-understood and his insights concerning racial capitalism in the transpacific and inter-Asian relations remain underanalyzed, but are significant contributions to his global "color line" thesis.

"Queer Temporality in the Films of Oshima Nagisa"

While in Japan this academic year at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, I've been invited to guest lecture at Kanagawa University! (Thanks, James Welker for both the invitation and making the poster! 🙂)  A wonderful opportunity and a great springboard for delving into a planned chapter of my dissertation...

CFP: Queering the Transpacific: Asian American, American and Asian Queer Studies

Click here for this call-for-papers.

“Queering the Transpacific: Inter-imperial Relations in Lonny Kaneko’s ‘The Shoyu Kid’ and Oshima Nagisa’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”

Paper abstract for the Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Portland, OR, this April!