Saturday, February 29, 2020

Week 9_Miguel Flores_ASA114


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:

Daniel Tsang. “Notes on Queer ‘N’ Asian Virtual Sex.”

“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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