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.