Queer Intercultural Communication

Shinsuke Eguchi is Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Their research interests focus on global and transcultural studies, queer of color critique, race, gender and intersectionality, Asian/Pacific/American studies, and performance studies. Their mostly recent work has appeared for publication in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Popular Communication, Howard Journal of Communication, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and Journal of Homosexuality. Bernadette Marie Calafell is Inaugural Department Chair and Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University. Her research is focused on queer of color theories, women of color feminisms, critical rhetoric, performance studies, and monstrosity. She is author of Monstrosity, Performance, Race in Contemporary Culture and Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance.

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Reorienting Queer Intercultural Communication
Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico
Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University

Theme 1: Relationalities

Chapter 1- Relationalities in/through Difference: Explorations in Queer Intercultural Communication
Gust A. Yep, San Francisco State University
Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, San Francisco State University
Ryan M. Lescure, San Francisco State University

Chapter 2- Revisiting a Letter for Someday: Writing Toward a Queer Iranian Diasporic Potentiality
Shadee Abdi, San Francisco State University

Chapter 3 - Embracing the Criminal: Queer and Trans Relational Liberatory Pedagogies
Benny LeMaster, Arizona State University
Meggie Mapes, University of Kansas

Chapter 4 - ‘Chinese Top, British Bottom’: Becoming a Gay Male Internet Celebrity in China
Tianyang Zhou, University of Sussex

Theme 2: Spatialities

Chapter 5 - Calaveras, Calacas, and Cultural Production: The Queer Politics of Brown Belonging at U.S. Día de Los Muertos Celebrations
Megan Elizabeth Morrissey, University of North Texas

Chapter 6 - Ain’t My First Rodeo in Homonormative Whiteness:Queer Intercultural Lessons from the International Gay Rodeo Community
Dawn Marie D. McIntosh, Independent Scholar

Chapter 7 - Intercultural Queer Slippages and Translations
Ahmet Atay, College of Wooster

Chapter 8 - “Queerly Ambivalent”: Navigating Global and Local Normativities in Postcolonial Ghana
Godfried Asante, Drake University

Theme 3: Praxis and Social Justice

Chapter 9 - How Queer (of Color) is Intercultural Communication? Then and There, Jotería the Game as a Praxis of Queerness, Advocacy, and Utopian Aesthetics
Robert Gutierrez-Perez, University of Nevada, Reno
Luis Manuel Andrade, Santa Monica College

Chapter 10 - Queerying Race, Culture and Sex: Examining HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Social Marketing for African American and Latinx Gay and Bisexual Men
Andrew Spieldenner, California State University – San Marcos
Deion Hawkins, Emerson College

Chapter 11- (Re)defining Boundaries and The Politics of Belonging in the film Pariah
Sheena Howard, Rider University

Chapter 12 - Mobilizing Allies for Black Transgender Women: Digital Stories, Intersectionality, and #SayHerName
Nicole Files-Thompson, Lincoln University
Melina McConatha, Lincoln University

Chapter 13 - Dialoguing About the Nexus of Queer Studies and Intercultural Communication
Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University
Thomas K. Nakayama, Northeastern University

Closing Thoughts - The Future of Queer Intercultural Communication
Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico
Sophie Jones, University of New Mexico
Hannah Long, University of New Mexico
Anthony Rosendo Zariñana, University of New Mexico