Queer Intercultural Communication

Shinsuke Eguchi is Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Their research interests focus on global and transcultural studies, queer of color critique, race, gender and intersectionality, Asian/Pacific/American studies, and performance studies. Their mostly recent work has appeared for publication in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Popular Communication, Howard Journal of Communication, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and Journal of Homosexuality.Bernadette Marie Calafell is Inaugural Department Chair and Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University. Her research is focused on queer of color theories, women of color feminisms, critical rhetoric, performance studies, and monstrosity. She is author of Monstrosity, Performance, Race in Contemporary Culture and Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance.

In this groundbreaking edited collection, Eguchi and Calafell present the field guide to queer intercultural communication. They show how intercultural communication scholarship and teaching benefits from a transnational queer lens that engages dialogically with the politics of difference. In essays that highlight intersectionality, belonging, and differences, contributors consider how culture, identity, and power are important in everyday communication across the globe. Not only does this collection offer readers a framework for considering how relationally and space influence intercultural relationships, but importantly, readers see how queer intercultural communication as praxis promises to promote social justice.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Reorienting Queer Intercultural Communication Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New MexicoBernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University Theme 1: RelationalitiesChapter 1- Relationalities in/through Difference: Explorations in Queer Intercultural CommunicationGust A. Yep, San Francisco State UniversityFatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, San Francisco State University Ryan M. Lescure, San Francisco State UniversityChapter 2- Revisiting a Letter for Someday: Writing Toward a Queer Iranian Diasporic PotentialityShadee Abdi, San Francisco State University Chapter 3 - Embracing the Criminal: Queer and Trans Relational Liberatory PedagogiesBenny LeMaster, Arizona State University Meggie Mapes, University of KansasChapter 4 - ‘Chinese Top, British Bottom’: Becoming a Gay Male Internet Celebrity in ChinaTianyang Zhou, University of SussexTheme 2: Spatialities Chapter 5 - Calaveras, Calacas, and Cultural Production: The Queer Politics of Brown Belonging at U.S. Día de Los Muertos CelebrationsMegan Elizabeth Morrissey, University of North TexasChapter 6 - Ain’t My First Rodeo in Homonormative Whiteness:Queer Intercultural Lessons from the International Gay Rodeo Community Dawn Marie D. McIntosh, Independent ScholarChapter 7 - Intercultural Queer Slippages and TranslationsAhmet Atay, College of Wooster Chapter 8 - “Queerly Ambivalent”: Navigating Global and Local Normativities in Postcolonial GhanaGodfried Asante, Drake UniversityTheme 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 AestheticsRobert Gutierrez-Perez, University of Nevada, RenoLuis Manuel Andrade, Santa Monica CollegeChapter 10 - Queerying Race, Culture and Sex: Examining HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Social Marketing for African American and Latinx Gay and Bisexual MenAndrew Spieldenner, California State University – San MarcosDeion Hawkins, Emerson CollegeChapter 11- (Re)defining Boundaries and The Politics of Belonging in the film PariahSheena Howard, Rider UniversityChapter 12 - Mobilizing Allies for Black Transgender Women: Digital Stories, Intersectionality, and #SayHerNameNicole Files-Thompson, Lincoln UniversityMelina 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