Queer Asia as Method
Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Wednesday 4 November 2026, 3pm - 5pm
All Welcome
Queer Asia as method is built upon the larger discourse of Asia as method. This special issue brings together academics and practitioners reflecting on diversifying and decolonising our epistemes and methods of knowledge production. Join the contributors as they reflect on the questions of research, method, and pedagogy and reframing these within Asian practices and lived experiences as its technology of recognition.
The contributors and editors will share their collaborative thinking about the questions raised by examining ‘Queer Asia as Method’ and the praxis informing the work of decentring and decolonising the globalised formation of queerness.
The special issue will be made free for access for the week of the event and there will be some hard copies at the event.
Biographies:
J. Daniel Luther (they/them) works on the intersections of culture and media studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory with a focus on South Asian culture, film and media. Since 2016 they have served a global community of artists, activists, and academics as the co-founder of ‘Queer’ Asia. Their first monograph Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only (2023) was published with Palgrave Macmillan. They recently co-edited a special issue Queer Asia as Method (2025) and are the co-editor of Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender (2019).
Liang Ge (they/them) is a Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Liang’s work lies in the intersection of intimacy, affect, digital media and technologies, digital methods, gender, sexuality, and East and Southeast Asian popular cultures and creative industries. Liang is the author of Ambivalent Desires: Affect and Boys Love in China (University of Michigan Press, 2027). Their research appears in journals including Information, Communication & Society, Big Data & Society, Media, Culture & Society, Feminist Theory,Convergence and Sociology, among others.
Eva Cheuk-Yin Li (she/they/keoi) is Lecturer in Screen Industries at King's College London, working at the intersection of sociology, inter-Asia cultural studies, and queer Asian studies. Her research examines queer fandom and gender non-conformity across Sinophone and Southeast Asian contexts.
