As crises of climate, empire, and identity unfold, queer and trans AAPI communities are cultivating fierce and tender ways of surviving, leading, and imagining otherwise. In this CLGS Lavender Lunch, Dr. Lisa Asedillo explores what it means to be “called” in a world that often erases or exoticizes AAPI queer lives.
Framed through the lens of Queer AZN and Pasifika Critical Race Theory (Alvarez et al., 2024), this talk weaves AAPI theologies with the six core tenets of this emerging framework, centering embodied memory, relational healing, and spiritual resistance as resources for community-rooted praxis.
Citing contemporary examples of Pride in the Philippines as a celebration of acceptance and the work of organizations like Bahaghari Center for SOGIE Research, Education and Advocacy, we will reflect on what becomes possible when queer AAPI leaders conspire to remember, resist, and reimagine together.