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Asian Feminist and Queer Worlds: Ecology, Emotion, and Transnational Mobility (107981)
Session Chair: Jia Tan
Sunday, 10 May 2026 10:45
Session: Session 1
Room: Room G403 (4F)
Presentation Type: Panel Presentation
Emotion is a crucial analytical terrain for understanding the everyday experiences, struggles, and aspirations of gendered and queer subjects in Asia. This panel "Asian Feminist and Queer Worlds: Emotion, Ecology, and Transnational Mobility", brings together four papers that examine how affect, embodiment, and social relations intersect with ecology, intimacy, migration, and urban transformation. F.L.’s paper "Learning to Move in Mid-Life: The emotional geography of Hong Kong immigrant women negotiating the automobility regime in the United Kingdom" explores how mid life Hong Kong immigrant women navigate the emotional and practical challenges of adapting to a car centric mobility regime. L.K.’s paper "Navigating Queer Self and Intimacy in Transnational Migration: Experiences of Queer Women Migrants from Hong Kong" examines how queer women migrants articulate identity and negotiate intimacy as they form new diasporic queer worlds across borders. A.F.’s paper "Girls’ Love in the City: Flat Girls' Lesbian Desire in Lower-Income Bangkok" investigates how lesbian desire is embedded within the architectural and social environments depicted in Jirassaya Wongsutin’s 2025 film Flat Girls. J.T.’s paper "Intersecting Feminism and Environmentalism in Hong Kong: Green Dystocia and the Alternative Eco feminism of Man Si Wai" offers a feminist re reading of Green Dystocia, highlighting how Man Si Wai’s emotional and political critiques propose an alternative eco feminist framework. Together, the panel illuminates how feminist and queer perspectives can deepen understandings of ecology, migration, intimacy, and everyday life in Asia, while foregrounding emotion as a vital site of analysis.
Authors:
Jia Tan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Francisca Yuenki Lai, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Lucetta Kam, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Arnika Fuhrmann, Cornell University and University of Hong Kong, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Jia Tan is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
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