Asian Canada Is Burning

Rose Ann Torres, Ph.D. is the Director and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Algoma University. Dr. Torres pioneered the creation of a Master of Social Work at Algoma University. She is the principal investigator of the SSHRC Insight Development Grants research project entitled “Examining Access to Mental Health Care Service: The Impact of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers in Northern Ontario” and co-principal investigator of the SSHRC Institutional Grants project titled “Effects of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning: Stories of Indigenous and Black and Asian Faculty Members and Students at Algoma University”. She has published numerous co-edited books, peer reviewed articles and book chapters.Ian Liujia Tian is an Assistant Professor of Global Equity Studies in the Department of Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. Their research focuses broadly on the political economy of gender and sexuality in transnational contexts. They situate their research in queer Marxism, queer/trans of color critique, transnational feminism, and Asian Canadian/Asian studies.Coly Chau has a Master of Education in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests include race, gender, sexuality, migration, anti-colonial thought and spirituality. They are interested in the unearthing and reclamation of knowledges for the purposes of imagining and working toward decolonial and liberatory futures. They are often working, organizing and learning in their communities.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionIan Liujia Tian, Coly Chau and Rose Ann TorresPart 1Situating Asia(ns) beyond Settler Canadian Nationalism2 Tearing Down Walls: Rethinking White Domesticity in the Context of Cultural DomicideShelly Ikebuchi3 Unpacking the Festival of Diwali in Canada: Where Have Rama, Sita, and Lakshman Gone?Rajni Mala Khelawan4 Seeking Pappy’s ApprovalKrystal Jagoo5 Vulnerable Resisters: Decolonizing Voices of Asian Migrants in a Settler Colonial and Religious ContextHyejung Jessie Yum6 Unboxing Our Narrative of Space and Place: An Unsettling Dance of (Un)BelongingJose Miguel EstebanPart 2Gender, Sexuality and Other Intimacies7 The BeeElisha Lim8 Labour, Intimacy and Diaspora: Queer Asian Studies in CanadaIan Liujia Tian9 The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho QueenSam Yoon10 Love Intersections: Queer Sensibilities and Relationality in Art and Cultural ProductionDavid Ng and Jenn Sungshine11 Emergent Asian-Canadian Feminisms: Insights from Young Filipina/x Feminist Scholar-OrganizersMonica Batac, Julia Baladad, Psalmae Tesalona, Chloe Rodriguez and France Clare StohnerPart 3Building Solidarities12 The Butterfly Effect: Asian Massage Parlour and Sex Workers and Historical Chinese Laundries Fighting By-Laws and Organizing Towards JusticeColy Chau and Elene Lam13 Asian Canadian Workers Organizing: The Making of the Asian Canadian Labour AllianceAnna Liu14 Love Letters to Asian Canadian Studies: On Ethical Solidarities and Decolonial FuturesJaney Lew15 Dumpster Fires, Burning AffectsMalissa Phung16 Internationalist Solidarity: Palestinian Liberation, bds, and the Struggle against NormalizationBoycott, Divest and Sanction Toronto17 Conclusion: Asian Futurism as Living LabourIan Liujia TianIndex

"This compelling anthology gathers vital perspectives on why solidarity matters, and how it offers us ways to live ethically, placing love and respect at the heart of our lifeworlds. In sharing stories, perspectives, and values that challenge and resist unjust, oppressive structures, the contributors light a path for us to think and act towards the worlds we need, worlds joyfully and tearfully built together through struggle, study and stamina."- Rita Wong, Associate Professor, Emily Carr University of Art + Design"Burning with passion and intelligence, this anthology showcases a new generation of scholars and activists working in Asian Canadian Studies. Combining strong academic rigour with deeply personal perspectives, the book examines the complexity of colonial and diasporic histories, the intimate relationality amongst racial, sexual, and gendered embodiments, and the challenges and joy of building solidarity across identities. Asian Canada Is Burning shines both as an inspired reexamination of the field and a handbook of praxis in organizing for a more just future." - Helen Hok-Sze Leung. Professor, Simon Fraser University"Asian Canada is Burning is an intellectually incisive, politically committed and timely contribution! The artists, activists and academics whose stories and analyses populate the volume’s pages expand what and how we know, and beautifully showcase the ambitious and capacious praxis of Asian Canadian critique as a scholarly formation and social justice project. I am immensely thankful for this beautiful and necessary gift!"- John Paul Catungal, Assistant Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia