Queer Intercultural Communication helps to expand the field of queer studies to consider cultural difference and how it affects everyday communication across the globe. Authoritative essays present cases of LGTBQ people in and across race, ethnicity, gender, culture, nation, and bodies.
Table of Contents: 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
