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:...

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