Mai-Linh K. Hong, JD, PhD
Scholarship
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Book
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​The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021)​
Edited by Mai-Linh K. Hong, Chrissy Yee Lau, and Preeti Sharma, with Kristina Wong and Rebecca Solnit
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" . . . 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
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"During this terrible time, when people like me are being attacked, the Auntie Sewing Squad gives me heart. They have written a practical guide—including patterns—for making masks, making community, and making us safer. Thank you, Aunties."
—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Fifth Book of Peace and winner of the National Book Award
"This is far more than the important account of women warriors, armed with sewing needles, who organized organically yet deliberately into a movement for social change in the time of Covid—it's an inspiring manifesto on building the Beloved Community. Please follow up with the field manual for global distribution!"
—Helen Zia, activist, journalist, and author of Asian American Dreams and Last Boat Out of Shanghai
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"This indispensable book presents an unseen side of the restructuring of the global economy, which placed feminized Asian labor at the center of both garment production and reproductive and care labor. The Auntie Sewing Squad's work also critiques the notion that market forces will step in to solve the problem of state failure, as they realized that even inexpensive masks were inaccessible to the most vulnerable communities. From all this comes an expanded and vital conception of solidarity."
—Grace Hong, author of Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference
Mentioned in Publishers Weekly, Society for U.S. Intellectual History​, Nichi Bei, KQED, Soapberry Review
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Articles/Essays
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Open-access versions of most scholarship may be found in the University of California's eScholarship​ repository. If you have trouble accessing an article, please contact me.
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'Nothing but My Own Whole Body': Revisiting Radical Haiku Through Violet Kazue de Cristoforo’s Life and Work, Amerasia Journal 49.1–2 (2024)
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The Refugee’s Now: The Art and Advocacy of Matt Huynh, Verge: Studies in Global Asias 6.1 (2020)
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Navigating the Global Refugee Regime: Law, Myth, Story, Amerasia Journal 46.1 (2020)
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'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)
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Asian American Literature: The State of the Art and A Literary Response to Cathy Schlund-Vials, Massachusetts Review Blog (2020)
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Narrative in the Shadow of the Refugee Regime, The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought (2017)
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'Get Your Asphalt Off My Ancestors!': Reclaiming Richmond’s African Burial Ground, Law, Culture, and the Humanities (2017)
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​Reframing the Archive: Vietnamese Refugee Narratives in the Post-9/11 Period, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) 41.3 (2016)
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A Genocide by Any Other Name: Language, Law, and the Response to Darfur, Virginia Journal of International Law 49 (2008)
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Research Comic​
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Perilous Telling: On Refugee Story, illustrated by Eli Africa, Bobcat Comics, UC Merced Center for the Humanities (2023)
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Book Review​
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Review of Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon by Phuong Tran Nguyen, International Migration Review (2019)
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