Anderson and Lee
Anderson and Lee give a brief but illuminating timeline of the history of Asian displacement not just to the United States but globally as well. They continue to expand upon displacement as a theoretical framework and analytical construct, using Bammer's definition as "the separation of people from their native culture, thorough physical dislocation or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture."
An interesting topic Anderson and Lee bring up is the concept of home, and where home is for diasporic communities. They discuss how "home" is a contested terrain for marginalized minorities like some queer communities and Asians in the Americas, but I'd like to ask how in particular queer Asians in the Americas are displaced in multiple ways from multiple homes for multiple reasons?
Penny Baldado shares her story as a queer and undocumented Filipina in the United States
in her short film "My Beautiful Resistance"
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