In the spirit of “strange affinities” that Grace Kyoungwon Hong and Roderick Ferguson posit as sites of coalitional politics, this roundtable explores relational methodologies that critically link Asian American and Latinx scholars, cultural producers, and activists. How do we develop coalitions beyond a priori categories of identity while simultaneously accounting for the material conditions? How can we further disentangle relational race studies from liberal-colonial epistemologies? Moderated by Susan Thananopavarn, the speakers of this roundtable will discuss the stakes and strategies for cultivating commons at the intersections of Asian American and Latinx studies, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, Anti-Asian and Anti-immigrant violence, and Black Lives Matter uprisings. To begin, Robb Hernández focuses on the neon sculptures of Patrick Martinez produced in this historical juncture, which serve as urban palimpsests of systemic violence, resistance, and renewal. Next, Chloe Huh Prudente discusses the challenges of interdisciplinary research, sharing the development of her project that reinstates Asian diasporas in the Americas as an integral part of global history. Long Le-Khac moves us beyond the human/nonhuman divide, envisioning a relational mode that fully accounts for racialized systems and their violence, as in the case of sugar in Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting. Considering the inextricable link between speculative fiction, race, and world-building, Heejoo Park explores the development of Chicanx/Latinx and Asian futurisms. Finally, Justus Peña Berman discusses the emergence and afterlife of Asian American and Chicano social movements between 1968 and the present, situating Third Word Left as a complex model of relationality.