Julien De Jesus
PhD Student, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Julien De Jesus, M.A. (they/them/their) is a Manila-born sociocultural and interdisciplinary linguist whose research interests include Queer/Trans of Color research, Filipinx American Studies, and the intersections between language, race, gender and sexuality. Themself a self-identified mix of Tagalog and New Jersey white, Julien’s work is informed by ideas of how racio-ethnicity interacts with and undergirds gender and sexuality, and how language can be used to analyze these dynamics, in the US context.
They are currently on a yearlong Leave of Absence from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where they are a PhD student and Doctoral Scholars Fellow. During this “year off,” Julien has been working as a Harm Reduction Coordinator for LGBTQ+ youth of color with REACH LA—and preparing for their favorite conference (AAAS!). Their MA thesis, “‘We need to be telling our own stories’: Creating a home for Filipinx Americans in Linguistics” is a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford University Press edited collection Inclusion in Linguistics.
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Home on the Horizon: Towards TRANS-disciplinarity in Queer and Trans Filipinx Studies
This roundtable offers a transdisciplinary discussion, reflecting on the genealogy of, current conversations and tensions within, and access to Queer and Trans (QT) Filipinx Studies. The members of this panel, composed of community members, graduate students, and early-career professors across the humanities and social sciences, confront this year’s theme of “Asian American Studies in the 2020s” by attempting to situate QT Filipinx Studies within the broader conversation of “belonging” within/out and across academic disciplines. The panel offers the following provocations: What entanglements exist between (trans)disciplinary formations, queer and trans [Filipinx] studies and livelihood, and the production of knowledge within and beyond academia? How does QT Filipinx thought speak to the ongoing legacies of, and struggles against, colonial racial capitalism? What does it mean for QT Filipinx Studies to claim a “home” within Asian American Studies, and how will we know when we have “arrived?”
Emphasizing the importance of community dialogue, we invite the audience to engage in these provocations by sharing their thoughts and experiences, regardless of institutional or departmental affiliations. By expanding the scope of this roundtable beyond the panel itself, we hope to continue these conversations after the conference’s conclusion. The panel envisions this session to serve as an initial gathering place for community members, both within and beyond the academy, and ultimately, hopes to engage those interested in the sustained effort necessary to build out spaces for Critical Queer and Trans Filipinx Studies.
Sustaining Excellence in Queer Asian American Studies: 20 years of Global Divas
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Queer and Trans of Color Critique in the Twenty-First Century Asian Diaspora
This panel takes up David Eng’s challenge from Racial Castration (2001) to think through how Asian diasporic “maleness” can be rethought, recited, and reperformed without aligning itself with or wholesale replicating Western masculinity and virility or Eastern masculinity and patriarchy. By decentering intersectional approaches to understanding Asian diasporic maleness from normative models of gender, this panel provides room to center a new set of ways to perform Asian masculinity and gender. Each of the papers in this panel asserts a new set of citational reference points and contemporary and utopian histories of gender, sexuality, and race. In addition, the papers then explore the performance of these queer and trans of color identities and the possible new ways of living and interacting in the world. How does identity move from a place of resistance to a feeling of survival and thriving? Each of the papers concludes with an analysis of the performative constitution of new masculinity within various domains. One paper explores a refusal of gender norms within the arts and literature, another within K-Pop, and another within autoethnographic contexts.
Julien De Jesus
PhD Student, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara
Los Angeles, California, United States
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