Daniel Tsang’s Notes on Queer N’
Asian Virtual Sex underlines the contemporary issues about Queer Asians and their
virtual presence online. Tsang untangles and complicates these realities as he redefines
intersectionality on the Asian stereotypes and the Queer Asians. From the view
of a BBS user, he politicizes his engagement and formulates concepts and themes
that are emerging in his engagement in BBS. He mentioned that many are “coming
out” in the bulletin looking for affection, hookups, and or long-term
engagement. Tsang underscored the increasing members who identify as “Asians,”
though it is hard to confirm nor deny these posers as legitimate “Asians,”
Tsang participates in conjecture and assumes their identity through their
anonymous profiles. Furthermore, in this discourse, Tsang is seeing a typical
fetishization and exotification of Queer Asian emphasizing their submissive and
docile role in their interactions with other non-Asian users on BBS. Tsang also
mentioned the preferences of Asians as being obsessed with the white bodies and
white bodies being attracted to effeminate Asian bodies. In this discourse, the
superiority of whites is being translated into virtual spaces like BBS.
Tsang
elaborated his experience to highlight the complicated reality of gay or
straight, white or Asian – he calls for a break in dichotomy and simplification
of the Asian and White labels. He suggests that there is more diversity than
that. His engagement with BBS challenges docile attributes of Asians as many in
the diaspora are “breaking the silence” and reconstructing their sexual
identities as part of the API community. The addition of technology facilitates
this process of exploration, and it furthers the complication of these
identities and the boundaries of health and wellness. One can wonder if his anecdotal
account counts as a process of Globalization compressed through means
of technologies? Globalization in a sense that bodies, identities, and sexualities
are “economized” where it constitutes the notion of label and preference making.
These interconnections entail a supply and demand ideology where BBSers advertise themselves for pleasure, love, and hookups. This would be an
interesting conversation to explore; the politicization and economization of
bodies as a form of exploring the complicated evolvement of identities.
References:
“Exploring the Roots of Chicago’s Queer South Asian Community | NBC Asian America.” YouTube. uploaded by NBC News, 26 June 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bVTNPNsw-E
“Ocean Vuong Wrote His Debut Novel in a Closet” YouTube. uploaded by Late Night with Seth Meyers, 13 June 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl_qbWwCwU
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