AAS Call for Proposals

Friends We Choose: Love and Lose on the Move in and beyond Asia

Panel Blurb: What do friendships between gender and sexual non-confoming migrants look like in the age of intensified mobility and displacement in Asia and beyond? This panel invites scholars of different disciplines, geographies, and historical periods to develop "friendship" as a category of analysis to identify the promise and premise of affinities between queer/trans individuals on the move. We trouble the idea that queer/trans friendship is the antidote to a cisheteronormative society by situating friendships within the social relations in which they emerge. We particularly welcome interested panelists who work on queer/trans migration within national (often rural-to-urban), regional (within Asia), and transnational contexts (Asia to other regions). Our goal is to assemble conversations that engage multiple scales of queer/trans migrations. 

Please send a short blurb of your paper (100 words max) if you are interested, to both Dr Ian Liujia Tian (ian.tian@msvu.ca) and Dr. Tori Yang (yangsc1@gmail.com).