This panel responds to the problematic of liberal Asian American attachments towards the state, law, and citizenship by bringing to the fore alternative histories, geographies, and encounters in Asian North America. The renewal of anti-Asian violence activated by the Covid-19 pandemic, alongside the resurgence of Asian North American community organizing, present new opportunities to interrogate the disavowal of anti-Asian racism by the liberal, multicultural settler state. This panel departs from the understanding that anti-Asian violence is both a site of foreclosure and unknown possibility. We posit anti-Asian violence as a category of knowledge that shifts and transforms. Drawing from Simeon Man’s articulation of anti-Asian violence as a function of settler colonialism and racial capitalism (2020, p. 25), our panel interrogates and responds to liberal formations of anti-Asian organizing that demand exceptionalism and recognition of anti-Asian racism as separate from imperialism. Our aim is to bring contestation and dissensus to what we readily name as anti-Asian violence. The art objects and performance-based works examined in this panel investigate how Asian North American art and cultural production can disrupt liberal framings of anti-Asian hate that continue to reinforce carceral, antiblack, and settler colonial violences. Our assembling of cultural texts and topics draws from Gayatri Gopinath’s method of queer curation, which aims to disrupt normative ways of seeing and make sensible submerged affiliations and embodiments by juxtaposing seemingly unrelated objects, histories, and geographies. In queer of colour media arts collective Love Intersections works, The Haunting of Hulijing and Yellow Peril: Queer Futures, the artists draw on different Chinese art and medicine traditions, alongside the aesthetics of horror and macabre to explore the notion of transgressing homonationalism, and the enforcement of biopolitics and racial capitalism by the nation-state. Alternately, the documentary film All Our Father’s Relations challenges framings of anti-Asian violence as separate from settler colonialism by recuperating Indigenous and Asian intimacies on unceded Musqueam land. For a protest rally in New Jersey, we turn to the sonic as we present a song Piglas—curated from chants, speeches, and performances—as a creative-critical reflection that resonates with the call for social justice on Anti-Asian violence. Lastly, a queer Asian archive of performance and poetry borne out of the HIV/AIDS epidemic offers to bring the past into the present in order to complicate the present and work towards alternative futures. Our panel seeks to highlight the ways that artists offer us frameworks that recalibrate and gesture towards different modes of seeing, feeling, and naming intersectional workings of power in Asia North America that ultimately aim to transform and reinvigorate diasporic Asian commitments to racial justice.