I’ve made two quick reference guides to the book:

• an interactive video/webtext at this link

• a quick one-pager on the books’ contents.

Available at Ohio State University Press [Discount Code HSU for 30% off + Free Shipping], Indiebound, or Amazon.

With gratitude

Eventually, I hope to fill this space with more auxiliary materials, but for now, I would like to link to the organizations and worldbuilders who made this project possible:

• API Equality — Northern California’s Dragon Fruit Project (now Dragon Fruit Museum)

• Mia Nakano’s Visibility Project and Resilience Archives

• Celeste Chan and Katie Gilmartin’s Queer Ancestors Project

• The incomparable Amy Sueyoshi

• And the insightful and ever-generous Adela Licona

AWARDS:

• 2023 Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association

• 2023 Innovations in Community Writing Book Award, Conference on Community Writing

• 2023 Rhetoric Society of America Fellows’ Early Career Award 

From Ohio State University Press:

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics explores how race, migration, gender, and disability entwine in conceptions of deserving citizens. V. Jo Hsu explores three archives of trans and queer Asian American (QTAPI) rhetorics, considering a range of texts including oral histories, photography, personal essays, and performance showcases. To demonstrate how QTAPI use personal narrative to critique and revise the conditions of their exclusion, Hsu forwards a critical approach to storytelling, homing, which deliberately engages sites of alienation and belonging. Through a practice of diasporic listening, Hsu tracks confluences among seemingly divergent journeys and locates trans and queer Asian American experiences within broader US and global politics.

The stories at the heart of Constellating Home center the voices of trans and nonbinary people, disabled people, and others often overlooked in conceptions of US citizenry. Hsu’s analyses demonstrate the inextricability of Asian American activism from queer politics, disability activism, and racial justice, and they consider how stories network individual experiences with resonant histories and struggles. Finding unlikely intimacies among individual and communal histories, Constellating Home provides tools for fostering mutual care, revealing harmful social patterns, and orienting shared values and politics.

“Hsu’s exploration of sense-making processes, modes of relationality, and worldmaking possibilities produces a rich and particular narrative of resistance and refusal. Constellating Home is compelling, theoretically rich, and beautifully written.”

—Gust Yep, author of Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s)

“Constellating Home will be incredibly useful for any of the many academic fields that are trying to make sense of marginalized communities but struggle to describe and honor the diversity and heterogeneity of individual experiences.”

—Lori Kido Lopez, author of Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship

REVIEWS:

Disability & Society by Viji Kuppan

Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association by Stacey Park