Shinsuke Eguchi

Queer Intercultural Relationality: An Autoethnography of Asian–Black (Dis)Connections in White Gay America

For this critical intercultural inquiry, I as an Asian/Japanese transnational cisgendered gay man write my autoethnography of queer (or non-heteronormative) Asian–Black (dis)connections. Specifically, I challenge, interrogate, and problematize my queer intercultural production of desire and attraction as I engage in my critical autoethnographic interrogation of dialogues with five Asian/Japanese transnational gay men who have previously engaged in queer Asian–Black relationality. In so doing, I intend to create a potential point of departure to decenter the discursive and material effects of White gay normativity in the knowledge production of Asian queer male desire and attraction.

Gay Rapping and Possibilities: A Quare Reading of “Throw that Boy P***y”

In this essay, we explore the hegemonic structures that reproduce the differences embedded in the material realities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people of color. We read Fly Young Reds intersectional performance of “Throw that Boy P***y” as an embodied text that seeks to disrupt unchallenged and taken-for-granted norms, values, and beliefs to rearticulate and reimagine the potentiality of (black) queer world-making. We argue that quare studies must further interrogate complex and ambiguous reinforcements of hegemonic ideology that socially, politically, economically, and historically construct boundaries in queer communities of color across cultures.

Revisiting Asiacentricity: Toward Thinking Dialectically about Asian American Identities and Negotiation

This analysis explores the possible communicative themes that those who regard themselves as Asian Americans negotiate in their intercultural interactions. To do so, this analysis first locates the historical and political circumstances in which the discourse about Asian Americans has been socially constructed—that is to say, within the U.S. racialized and gendered context. Then, this analysis revisits Asiacentricity to see if any Asian communicative lives exist, as Asian American identities must be located both in global and local contexts. In this process, contradictory views of Asiacentricity are offered. Lastly, this analysis proposes new possibilities in moving toward thinking dialectically about the communicative themes that pertain to the material realities of Asian American identities and negotiation. In so doing, this analysis plays as a critical intervention to further dialogue about what makes Asian Americans Asian Americans in the discipline of communication.

Disidentifications From the West(ern) An Autoethnography of Becoming an Other

In this article, I write my autoethnography of disidentifications from the West(ern) as I become an Other in the context of cross-national transitions from Japan to the United States. Specifically, I illustrate my performative modes of disidentifying from the West(ern) genre and motif to examine how historical, cultural, and somatic impacts of the West(ern) are negotiated and renegotiated in everyday interactions. In doing so, I utilize my Asian/Japanese transnational gay identity as the embodied text to disrupt, complicate, and transform understandings of “Others” in the context of intraqueer/intercultural encounters.

Queer (of color) aesthetics: fleeting moments of transgression in VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood Season 2

ABSTRACT VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood (LHHH) season two features the coming out narrative of cast member and rap artist Miles “Siir Brock [SIC].” In this essay, we interrogate the production of the coming out narrative as a cultural text constrained by ideologies, material conditions, and historical contexts. We are interested in critiquing the commodification of Black queerness, masculinity, and sexuality via the conceptual lens of disidentification. In so doing, we engage with what we argue are fleeting moments of transgression from dominant scripts by problematizing the show’s representations of the aesthetics of queerness.

Queer Relationality as Family: Yas Fats! Yas Femmes! Yas Asians!

ABSTRACT In this essay, we, as queer subjects, share our embodied experiences to rearticulate and reimagine possible and impossible performances of queer relationality as family. We collaboratively pay careful and nuanced attention to our queer performative roles of becoming and being femmes as referring points of this critical queer engagement. To do so, we adapt methodological implications of autoethnography and intersectional reflexivity. Thereby, we take further steps to explore an anti-anti-relational landscape of queerness that works on and against hegemonic, heteronormative, and homonormative paradigms of relating.

Examining Embodied Struggles in Cultural Reentry Through Intersectional Reflexivity

ABSTRACT In this article, the authors approach cultural reentry by emphasizing the body, affect, and performance. To do so, they methodologically adapt Jones and Calafells (2012) call for intersectional reflexivity. That is, through their collaborative sharing of stories, they attend to our intersecting identities. Particularly, the authors critique implications of their own global mobility in the structural systems of privilege and marginalization. They do so by reflecting on their embodied experiences of crossing borders and struggling with the notion of home(s). The three themes that outline their narratives are racialized mobility, the feeling of being away from “home,” and performing in-betweenness.

“Uncultural” Asian Americans in ABC’s Dr. Ken

ABSTRACT In this essay, we interrogate the ways in which the uncultural masks the cultural in ABC’s Dr. Ken. We analyze Dr. Ken’s first season, through the conceptual lens of strategic whiteness, to identify and critique the ambiguous and nuanced positions of Asian Americans. By repeatedly demonstrating the simultaneous functions of Asian Americans both as almost Whites and as (nonthreatening) Others, Dr. Ken resecures invisible territories of whiteness as property. Our goal is to disrupt the uncultural assumptions about Dr. Ken as it strategically draws attention away from its reproduction of norms of whiteness at the expense of Asian Americans.

Race-ing Queerness Normative Intimacies in LOGO’s DTLA

We argue that the representations of sex, love, and relationships in the television series Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) mirrors existing racialized, gendered, sexualized, and classed hierarchies of masculinities among queer men. DTLA attempts to project a more inclusive ideology through its focus on typically marginalized groups but fails to offer a space for resisting or subverting those hierarchies. For that reason, we complicate DTLA’s representations as reproducing normative hierarchies. By doing so, we reimagine the potentiality of mediated spaces where the intersections and complexities of differences are embraced.

Gender and queer as multicultural discourses

Black queer studies: a critical anthology, edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2005, xiii + 377 pp., US