Vice-Presidential Session. Connecting Home(lands): Continuing Legacies of Pacific Islander and Asian Anti-Imperialism Across Oceans

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

We are Pacific Islander and/or Asian researchers, artists, storytellers, and community activists resisting imperialism and dreaming and creating futurities for our peoples. We offer how we’ve been working within and across communities, considering feminist, queer, racial, (inter)ethnic, historical, religious, anti/de-colonial, and other critical lenses.
Collaborating with folks from and beyond our own communities, we engage in arts-based, autoethnographic, participatory and relationally-driven practices to learn about continuing legacies of solidarity, sustaining communities, and engaging in self-reflexivity.
We share connected learnings under three themes: a) relationships are essential in the pursuit of anti-imperialist futures, b) addressing historical and contemporary issues require working across disciplines, groups, and identity markers, and c) remembering the stories of resistance to guide pathways forward.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chairs

• Kriya Issa Anguluan Velasco, Michigan State University

• Kayla Mendoza Chui, University of Washington

Papers

• "It's HMoob and Queer, Not HMoob Versus Queer": Queer and Trans HMoob Youth Contesting and Resisting Homonationalist Imperialism - Doua Kha, University of Washington

• "Stand Firm and the Waves Will Break": An Autoethnography of Tongan Resistance to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Colonialism - Naeisha McClain, University of Pittsburgh

• Saling-Pusa sa Amerika: Leaning Into Liminality for Our Justice Work in the Americas - Kriya Issa Anguluan Velasco, Michigan State University

• The Seeds We Plant: Creative Storytelling With Asian Organizers for Liberatory Education - Kayla Mendoza Chui, University of Washington; Julie Feng

• "Where I Am From": Empowering Silenced Tongues Through an Alter/Native Storytelling of Embodied Truths - Isa Kelawili Whalen, University of Massachusetts - Boston

Discussant

• Edward R. Curammeng, California State University - Dominguez Hills