Asians Loving Asians

Shinsuke Eguchi (Ph.D., Howard University) is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of New Mexico. They are a recipient of the 2019 Randy Majors Award bestowed by the National Communication Association’s Caucus on GLBT Concerns recognizing a scholar making outstanding contributions to LGBTQ Communication Scholarship.

• Acknowledgments – Introduction: Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics – Queerness of Sticky Rice: In and Across Yellow Fever and Front Cover – Queering Gender Borders of Sticky Rice: On Koreatown – Living in Paradox: Seeing "Alternative Cartographies" through Sticky Rice – Pedagogy of Unfreedom: Building Queer Relationalities through Sticky Rice – Monstrous Onē Performance: Sticking with Hikawa Kiyoshi [氷川きよし] – Coda: Turning Points: Queer Desire in Progress – Appendix I – About the Author – Index.

“Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics takes the vernacular discourse of ‘sticky rice,’ which refers to same sex desire between Asian men, from aphorism to theoretical frame and political activist affect. It is part confessional and part critically embodied theory building that deconstructs internalized racism perpetuated in the hegemony of colonialism of same sex desire.In Asians Loving Asians, Shinsuke Eguchi deftly engages queer color critique with an unwavering voracity that does not drift in abstract theoreticality, but is made manifest in the embodied practices of queer Asian men and their performative resistance against exoticism and the return to self-love. In the process there are close readings of media representations of queer Asian desire; ethnographic interviews with queer Asian male subjects; and the criticality of self-affirmations to create a counter hegemonic queer Asian-futurism that calls us all to attend.Eguchi establishes a fierce postcolonial queer of color critique that expands the focus of inquiry, discovery and positionality with the queer Asian subject. The work emerges from the body of the author, and thus both centers and it decenters staid presentations and proclamations of queer theory. Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics reads as critical autoethnographic discovery and offers a new template of sociality from a transnational Asian queer perspective. Asians Loving Asians is a must read for anyone seeking to explore the most bracing aspects of queer of color critique, by exploring a more expansive focus on racialized queer diversity. The book as a whole is liberating for the author and will be so for all who engage it. And like Marlon Riggs, who wrote about the audacity of Black men loving Black men, maybe Shinsuke Eguishi could also argue that ‘Asian men loving Asian men is a revolutionary act.’”—Bryant Keith Alexander, Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts, and Interim Dean, School of Television and Film, Loyola Marymount University, Co-Author of Collaborative Spirit-Writing Performance in Everyday Black Lives and Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism, and Co-Editor of The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication