Beenash Jafri is assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at UC Davis. Her writing has been published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies, and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association.

"Beenash Jafri delivers in this superb appraisal of decolonial commitments in Asian diasporic film. With dexterity and care, she dives into the fraught edges of Asian diasporic solidarity with Indigenous peoples and complicity with settler colonialism. By exploring the way Asian diasporic and Indigenous political relation is mediated by critical impasse, Jafri takes us to a new level of ethical commitment to decolonial struggle." -Iyko Day, author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism"This book is a far-reaching study of Asian diasporic media in the context of North American settler colonialisms. Its sustained analysis of ‘affective attachments’ moves us beyond the impasses of immigrant nostalgia and settler inclusion toward what Beenash Jafri, deftly interweaving women-of-color feminism with Indigenous theory and critique, calls ‘relational survivance.’" -Glen Mimura, University of California, Irvine

• Contents Introduction: Decolonizing Settler Worlds 1. Melancholic Attachments: Asian Diasporic Cowboys 2. Brown Queer and Trans Bodies at the Impasse of Diaspora and Indigeneity 3. Friendship, Refusal, and Alternate Archives of Diaspora 4. Experiments in Relation: Queer Indigenous and Asian Diasporic Survivance in the Settler-Capitalist City Coda: Interrupting the Settler-Colonial Sensorium Acknowledgments Notes Index

Beenash Jafri is assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at UC Davis. Her writing has been published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies, and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association.

"Beenash Jafri delivers in this superb appraisal of decolonial commitments in Asian diasporic film. With dexterity and care, she dives into the fraught edges of Asian diasporic solidarity with Indigenous peoples and complicity with settler colonialism. By exploring the way Asian diasporic and Indigenous political relation is mediated by critical impasse, Jafri takes us to a new level of ethical commitment to decolonial struggle." -Iyko Day, author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism"This book is a far-reaching study of Asian diasporic media in the context of North American settler colonialisms. Its sustained analysis of ‘affective attachments’ moves us beyond the impasses of immigrant nostalgia and settler inclusion toward what Beenash Jafri, deftly interweaving women-of-color feminism with Indigenous theory and critique, calls ‘relational survivance.’" -Glen Mimura, University of California, Irvine

• Contents Introduction: Decolonizing Settler Worlds 1. Melancholic Attachments: Asian Diasporic Cowboys 2. Brown Queer and Trans Bodies at the Impasse of Diaspora and Indigeneity 3. Friendship, Refusal, and Alternate Archives of Diaspora 4. Experiments in Relation: Queer Indigenous and Asian Diasporic Survivance in the Settler-Capitalist City Coda: Interrupting the Settler-Colonial Sensorium Acknowledgments Notes Index

Beenash Jafri is assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at UC Davis. Her writing has been published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies, and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association.

"Beenash Jafri delivers in this superb appraisal of decolonial commitments in Asian diasporic film. With dexterity and care, she dives into the fraught edges of Asian diasporic solidarity with Indigenous peoples and complicity with settler colonialism. By exploring the way Asian diasporic and Indigenous political relation is mediated by critical impasse, Jafri takes us to a new level of ethical commitment to decolonial struggle." -Iyko Day, author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism"This book is a far-reaching study of Asian diasporic media in the context of North American settler colonialisms. Its sustained analysis of ‘affective attachments’ moves us beyond the impasses of immigrant nostalgia and settler inclusion toward what Beenash Jafri, deftly interweaving women-of-color feminism with Indigenous theory and critique, calls ‘relational survivance.’" -Glen Mimura, University of California, Irvine

• Contents Introduction: Decolonizing Settler Worlds 1. Melancholic Attachments: Asian Diasporic Cowboys 2. Brown Queer and Trans Bodies at the Impasse of Diaspora and Indigeneity 3. Friendship, Refusal, and Alternate Archives of Diaspora 4. Experiments in Relation: Queer Indigenous and Asian Diasporic Survivance in the Settler-Capitalist City Coda: Interrupting the Settler-Colonial Sensorium Acknowledgments Notes Index