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Feminisms II: The Self in Study: Identities within Asian American Feminisms

This roundtable is one of three sessions sponsored by the Asian American Feminisms Section. Just as Asian American Feminisms encompass complex histories, politics, disciplines, and theoretical frameworks, so too does the identity of Asian American feminist. In this roundtable, we explore how our individual identities inform our Asian American feminist work, the relation between the self and study, as well as the examination of the self in studies. We are interested in how our creative and scholarly pursuits often take an autoethnographic approach, informed by an interpretation of lived experiences that connect to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings. We share how our various cultural, ethnic, racial identities, included within Asian American feminists, affect our research, art, scholarship, and teaching. We offer self-reflections from Asian American(ist) feminists that take up the question of what it means to navigate our selves in our work. Sandra So Hee Chi Kim reflects on how her Korean American identity informed her journey from a historically Eurocentric field to Asian American Studies. Catherine Ma describes difficulties she encountered as a Chinese immigrant mother in academia and the act of putting her rage of invisible mothering onto paper. Van Ngoc Tran Nguyen discusses making THE MOTHERLOAD, a film starring herself and her mother, that interrogates how Hollywood movies depict the Vietnam War. Lili Shi recounts the challenges of becoming a feminist as a transnational Chinese American academic in the past two decades, from international student to tenured professor.

Sandra Kim

Stony Brook University Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies

Long Beach, California, United States

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