This talk contributes to sustaining intersectional movements through scholarship that explores frameworks and narratives that push against the political, social, and epistemological borders that govern our world. It examines the transnational social phenomenon of “goose fathers” (기러기 아빠)— a term used for Korean fathers who typically work in South Korea and send money to their families in the United States so that their children can pursue “better” educational opportunities— through the lens of (de)coloniality theory and the history of U.S.-Korea relations. I then turn to Krys Lee’s short story “The Goose Father” (2012), which focuses on one such goose father, Gilho, whose austere lifestyle and struggle with depression takes an amusing turn when he accepts as a boarder a young man named Wuseong. Gilho finds his boarder eccentric and unpredictable; Wuseong brings with him a pet goose that he claims is his dead mother and disregards every masculine gender norm, puzzling and annoying Gilho initially. As time goes on, however, Gilho finds himself intensely attracted to Wuseong in a way that he has never experienced before, which leads to an inner awakening. Meanwhile, the pet goose takes on a magical realist quality that leads both Gilho and the reader to believe that it might indeed be Wuseong’s mother. I close-read the “queerness” of this text to bring out its critique of multinational capitalism, U.S. empire, patriarchy, and heteronormativity, told through the queering of desire and kinship relations.