Hsu's book Constellating Home is an autoethnographic exploration into trans and queer Asian American meaning-making and home-making praxis. They start by first outlining “homing” as a process of home-making that allows diasporic subjects to deconstruct, co-construct, and maneuver among sites of (un)belonging (9); next, they define “commonplace or topoi—ideological concepts so socially ingrained that their meanings might seem self-evident or taken for granted” (26). Lastly, they draw on Godsil et al. (2014) and Simpson (2017) in order to utilize the term constellate or constellation to permit “multiply-situated subjects to connect multiple discourses at the same time, as well as for those relationships (among subjects, among discourses, among kinds of connections) to shift and change without holding a subject captive” (10–11). Hsu uniquely constellates homing in each chapter. The first three chapters illustrate different constellations through interactions with three different Asian American trans and queer grassroots groups:...
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics
AARRON M. BOOKER ([email protected]) is currently a second-year first-generation PhD student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Kentucky. They received their BA in African American studies from San Jose State University with a minor in Black women's studies and their MA in interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in diversity, inclusion, and social justice from the University of Central Florida. Their research interests include African American studies (broadly), the inclusion of BBIPOC in curriculum, and curriculum studies.
Aarron Booker; Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics. Women, Gender, and Families of Color 1 April 2023; 11 (1): 122–125. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/23260947.11.1.08
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