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Vivian L. Huang

Vivian L. Huang is a scholar of race, sexuality, and performance with her first book Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability coming out this December.

In Conversation

Vivian L. Huang with Mei Kazama

Spaces for collective grief are precious for minority communities, including for Asian Americans who must bear histories and memories that are often publicly repudiated. Recurring themes in your work include ghosts, loss, and grief, which often exist in realms deemed private. How does your work think about these themes in relation to power? What is our responsibility to ghosts who might operate where invisibility is essential?

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The Brooklyn Rail

SEPT 2023

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