Queer Unsettlements: Diasporic Filipinos in Canada’s World Pride
@article{Diaz2016QueerUD, title={Queer Unsettlements: Diasporic Filipinos in Canada’s World Pride}, author={Robert G. Diaz}, journal={Journal of Asian American Studies}, year={2016}, volume={19}, pages={327 - 350} }
This article examines how queer diasporic migrants subtend the hierarchizing practices of Canadian multiculturalism and settler colonialism. As a case study, it focuses on “Cabinet of Queeriosities,” a contemporary art exhibit that featured the work of Julius Manapul, and Miss Gay Philippines Canada, a beauty pageant that featured Filipino/a contestants competing from across the greater Toronto area. By tracing the complex articulations of nonnormative intimacy, kinship, and sexuality that…
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