Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
Explore the intersection of Asian identity and queer identity in Aotearoa New Zealand through the autoethnographic reflections of a Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man.
About The Book
Table of Contents
About The Author
A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Queer Asian communities in Aotearoa New Zealand can suffer erasure caused by the dominance of whiteness in queer spaces. Written as a deliberate challenge to this invisibility, author Sidney Gig-Jan Wong 黃吉贊 reflects on his life and upbringing in order to explore the intersections of his own identity and ongoing coming out experience, and also highlight the perspectives of a minoritized community.
Ideal reading for students of LGBTQIA+ studies and Asian studies, as well as anthropology and sociology, this book draws on queer theory and the author’s life in a way that personalises concepts and highlights the humanity in the social sciences.
A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Queer Asian communities in Aotearoa New Zealand can suffer erasure caused by the dominance of whiteness in queer spaces. Written as a deliberate challenge to this invisibility, author Sidney Gig-Jan Wong 黃吉贊 reflects on his life and upbringing in order to explore the intersections of his own identity and ongoing coming out experience, and also highlight the perspectives of a minoritized community.
Ideal reading for students of LGBTQIA+ studies and Asian studies, as well as anthropology and sociology, this book draws on queer theory and the author’s life in a way that personalises concepts and highlights the humanity in the social sciences.
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- v
- viviiAcknowledgements
- viiiixContents
- xxiContent warning
- xiixiiiLearning objectives
- Prologue
- 45Content warning
- Introduction
- Ōtepoti, Spring 2022
- Racialised bodies
- Te Awakairangi, Autumn 2022
- Queer identities
- Ōtautahi, Autumn 2019
- Closet spaces
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2022
- 29Content warning
- 1 to leave one’s homeland
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2020
- Yellow peril
- Haehaenui, Winter 2013
- Eternal migrants
- Model minorities
- 45Content warning
- 2 to lay roots in the soil
- Mumbai, Winter 2023
- Unnatural acts
- Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Autumn 2021
- Role models
- Cologne, Summer 2012
- Self-exploration
- Te Awakairangi, Summer 2012
- 6465Content warning
- 3 to navigate the world alone
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2013
- An education
- Ōtautahi, Autumn 2013
- Incognito mode
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2013
- Quake city
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2013
- 81Content warning
- 4 to obtain enlightenment
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2014
- Sudden realisation
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2014
- Forbidden knowledge
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2014
- Impulsive Decisions
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2014
- 97Content warning
- 5 to obsess without reason
- Rotorua, Summer 2015
- Finding space
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2015
- Submissive bodies
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2015
- From the margins
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2015
- 113Content warning
- 6 to return to one’s roots
- Mumbai, Winter 2023
- Unlikely match
- Hong Kong, Summer 2015
- Diverging worlds
- Hong Kong, Summer 2015
- Next station
- Hong Kong, Summer 2015
- 131Content warning
- 7 to find comfort in a hopeless situation
- Ōtautahi, Winter 2015
- Crisis of faith
- Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Autumn 2015
- Chill out time
- Ōtautahi, Winter 2015
- Tipping point
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2015
- 145Content warning
- 8 to sail against the tide
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2018
- Looking out
- Ōtautahi, Autumn 2023
- Opening up
- Te Awakairangi, Summer 2018
- Letting in
- Te Awakairangi, Spring 2019
- 166167Content warning
- 9 to long for a memory
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2016
- Unsettled boundaries
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2016
- Long distance
- Ōamaru, Autumn 2016
- Letting go
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2019
- 187Content warning
- 10 to inherit the teachings of one’s forebears
- Ōtautahi, Winter 2019
- Out at work
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2018
- Holding out for a hero
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2018
- Reluctant leadership
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2019
- 203Content warning
- 11 to love one’s imperfections
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2019
- Living in a bubble
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2020
- One step at a time
- Te Awakairangi, Autumn 2021
- Circuit breaker
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2022
- 221Content warning
- 12 to stand without faltering
- Mumbai, Winter 2022
- Our darkest day
- Tāmaki Makaurau, Autumn 2021
- Decentring whiteness
- Ōtautahi, Spring 2022
- Stand in solidarity
- Ōtautahi, Summer 2023
- Epilogue
- Hong Kong, Winter 2005
- 246247Recommended projects
- 251Recommended further reading
- 252253References
- 258Index
Sidney Gig-Jan Wong 黃吉贊 (he/him, any pronouns with respect) is a PhD candidate at the Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau, University of Canterbury (UC). He has a BSc in Linguistics, Master of Linguistics, and Master of Applied Data Science from UC.
