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#Platonicintimacy

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This chapter explores asexual intimacies through an engagement with recent Asian diasporic uses of the queerly platonic to articulate the fullness of queer of color joy, imaginings, and undoings in settler colonial North America. On one hand, the chapter attends to the fraught historic and contemporary uses of asexuality in the racialization of particularly Asian masculinity. On the other hand, it engages with the possibilities of asexuality for Asian people who express their experiences of asexual affects, longings, and happenings in their modes of queer relationality. The chapter includes an analysis of a photograph series, titled “a queer fairytale,” taken and posted on Instagram by Fiona Smith as well as analyses of the use of Instagram hashtags (particularly #platonic intimacy), which connect the photographs with histories of queer Asian North American life.

Authors

Kenney TN

Book title

Asexualities

Pagination

pp. 322-336

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

May 7, 2024

DOI

10.4324/9781003178798-26

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