Asian Canada Is Burning

Rose Ann Torres 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.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.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Ian Liujia Tian, Coly Chau and Rose Ann Torres Part 1 Situating Asia(ns) beyond Settler Canadian Nationalism 2 Tearing Down Walls: Rethinking White Domesticity in the Context of Cultural Domicide Shelly Ikebuchi 3 Unpacking the Festival of Diwali in Canada: Where Have Rama, Sita, and Lakshman Gone? Rajni Mala Khelawan 4 Seeking Pappy’s Approval Krystal Jagoo 5 Vulnerable Resisters: Decolonizing Voices of Asian Migrants in a Settler Colonial and Religious Context Hyejung Jessie Yum 6 Unboxing Our Narrative of Space and Place: An Unsettling Dance of (Un)Belonging Jose Miguel Esteban Part 2 Gender, Sexuality and Other Intimacies 7 The Bee Elisha Lim 8 Labour, Intimacy and Diaspora: Queer Asian Studies in Canada Ian Liujia Tian 9 The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho Queen Sam Yoon 10 Love Intersections: Queer Sensibilities and Relationality in Art and Cultural Production David Ng and Jenn Sungshine 11 Emergent Asian-Canadian Feminisms: Insights from Young Filipina/x Feminist Scholar-Organizers Monica Batac, Julia Baladad, Psalmae Tesalona, Chloe Rodriguez and France Clare Stohner Part 3 Building Solidarities 12 The Butterfly Effect: Asian Massage Parlour and Sex Workers and Historical Chinese Laundries Fighting By-Laws and Organizing Towards Justice Coly Chau and Elene Lam 13 Asian Canadian Workers Organizing: The Making of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance Anna Liu 14 Love Letters to Asian Canadian Studies: On Ethical Solidarities and Decolonial Futures Janey Lew 15 Dumpster Fires, Burning Affects Malissa Phung 16 Internationalist Solidarity: Palestinian Liberation, bds , and the Struggle against Normalization Boycott, Divest and Sanction Toronto 17 Conclusion: Asian Futurism as Living Labour Ian Liujia Tian Index