Mai-Linh K. Hong, JD, PhD

breaking form: a workshop for creative praxis & asian americanist critique 
at AAAS 2026, Honolulu

​Feminisms I: breaking form: a workshop for creative praxis & asian americanist critique will be held Thursday, April 2, 2026, 9:40–11:10am HST, in Iolani V. This is one of two sessions sponsored by the Asian American Feminisms Section at the 2026 Association for Asian American Studies conference. 

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This workshop asks Asian Americanist scholars who are also artists, performers, and creative writers to lovingly welcome our whole selves into the room. We invite attendees who think of themselves as creatives and those who do not (yet). This is a generative workshop that will enable attendees to consider and explore in community the creative or artistic aspects of their scholarly practice, or to try out creative methods. Attendees will leave with three new beginnings in which creative practice and scholarly critique enliven each other. 

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Moderated by poet and scholar Mai-Linh Hong, the session features a brief roundtable discussion in the first half. Then, for the second half, attendees are invited to visit three "Imaginaria," interactive creative stations led by pairs of artist-scholars:

Visual Imaginarium

Falu Bakrania & Rose M. Kim

Literary Imaginarium

Jane Wong & Karis Ryu​

Epistolary Imaginarium

Jonathan Hsy & keziah aurin

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Each Imaginarium (Visual, Literary, or Epistolary) will offer a method and a prompt for rethinking and reinscribing an idea you are grappling with in your research—or perhaps a totally new idea that occurs in this space. You may spend as much time as you like at any station, though we encourage everyone to try all three. All registered conference attendees are welcome. No experience needed; supplies provided. 

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