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The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice

edited by Mai-Linh Hong, Chrissy Yee Lau, and Preeti Sharma, with Kristina Wong and Rebecca Solnit (University of California Press, 2021)

" . . . a wonderful, motley, no-bullshit collective history of a singular and beautiful mutual aid project—a collective that, in crafting and distributing masks as an expression of radical solidarity and capacity-building, reclaims the politicization of masks from the Right. In valuing care and beauty, embracing individual multiplicity and internal debate, the Aunties have assembled a subversive vision of liberation through accountability. This book makes for encouraging, galvanizing company for anyone interested in translating desire into action and moving from isolation into community."

—Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

Mentioned in Publishers Weekly, Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Nichi Bei, KQED, Soapberry Review

Articles + Essays

'Nothing but My Own Whole Body': Revisiting Radical Haiku Through Violet Kazue de Cristoforo’s Life and Work, Amerasia Journal 49.1–2 (2024)

The Refugee’s Now: The Art and Advocacy of Matt Huynh, Verge: Studies in Global Asias 6.1 (2020)

Navigating the Global Refugee Regime: Law, Myth, Story, Amerasia Journal 46.1 (2020)

'The Deep Root Snapped': Reproductive Violence and Family Un/Making in Quan Barry’s She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan (2020)

Asian American Literature: The State of the Art and A Literary Response to Cathy Schlund-Vials, Massachusetts Review Blog (2020)

Narrative in the Shadow of the Refugee Regime, The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought (2017)

'Get Your Asphalt Off My Ancestors!': Reclaiming Richmond’s African Burial Ground, Law, Culture, and the Humanities (2017)

Reframing the Archive: Vietnamese Refugee Narratives in the Post-9/11 Period, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) 41.3 (2016)

A Genocide by Any Other Name: Language, Law, and the Response to Darfur, Virginia Journal of International Law 49 (2008)

Book Review

Review of Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon by Phuong Tran Nguyen, International Migration Review (2019)

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Open-access versions of most scholarship may be found in the University of California's eScholarship​ repository.

The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice

Open-access versions of most scholarship may be found in the University of California's eScholarship repository.