Cat-N-Cactus

About Me

My name is Catherine, and I am currently an undergraduate student at Rice University studying Biological Sciences. While I love biology and health sciences, I am also strongly passionate about social issues and social justice, especially in regards to climate change, reproductive justice, systemic racism, and voting rights. I hope to contribute to these social issues on Wikipedia, expanding knowledge on current movements, leaders, and developments.

Proposed Topics

I am interested in the queer Asian American experience and Asian American LGBTQ+ activism. As a queer Asian American myself, these topics are very personal to me. I hope to learn and contribute information about the history and current state of LGTBQ+ activism in Asian American communities. Although there exists many pages on general LGBTQ+ topics in the United States and a page about the African-American LGBT community, there is little material reflecting the intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and Asian American identities. I propose to add a new section to the article Asian American activism to write about LGBTQ+ activism specifically in Asian American communities.

Below is a list of references that I plan to use as source material for writing about this topic:

1. Alvin Eng, Eng. Q & A Queer And Asian: Queer & Asian In America. Vol. 201. Temple University Press, 2018.
2. Cheng, Patrick S. “The Rainbow Connection: Bridging Asian American and Queer Theologies.” Theology & sexuality 17, no. 3 (2011): 235–264.
3. De Jesus, Melinda L. “RAW: ‘Raunchy Asian Women’ and Resistance to Queer Studies in the Asian Pacific American Studies Classroom.” Radical teacher (Cambridge) 70, no. 70 (2004): 26–31.
4. Grice, Helena, and Crystal Parikh. “Feminisms and Queer Interventions into Asian America.” In The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature, 169–182. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
5. Kazyak, Emily. “Introduction to Special Issue ‘Geographies of Sexualities.’” Journal of lesbian studies 24, no. 3 (2020): 173–185.
6. Kha, Doua. “FOR QUEER ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH WHO ARE RESILIENT AND TENACIOUS: HOW QUEER ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH AND THEIR ADVOCATES CONFRONT THE TENSIONS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.” Asian American policy review 29 (2019): 12–.
7. Kuo, Linda, Simone Perez-Garcia, Lindsey Burke, Vic Yamasaki, and Thomas Le. “Performance, Fantasy, or Narrative: LGBTQ+ Asian American Identity through Kpop Media and Fandom.” Journal of homosexuality (2020): 1–24.
8. Magpantay, Glenn D. “TIGER: A Sustainable Model for Building LGBTQ AAPI Community.(typography of Intersectional Gender and Sexual Empowerment and Resistance)(lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer; Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander).” Asian American policy review 30 (2020): 5–.
9. Sueyoshi, Amy. “Queer Asian American Historiography.” In The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press, 2016.
10. “Teen, Queer, and Asian: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Plus Asian American Students’ Experiences in Schools.” The Journal of school health (2021).

Secondarily, I am interested in Asian American environmental activism. This topic also feels personal to me, and Wikipedia lacks information on environmental justice issues as it specifically relates to the Asian American community. I similarly propose to add a section to the article Asian American activism to contribute information about Asian American environmental activism. Here are the references I've gathered on this topic:

1. Crawford, Chiyo. “From Desert Dust to City Soot: Environmental Justice and Japanese American Internment in Karen Tei Yamashita’s ‘Tropic of Orange.’” Melus 38, no. 3 (2013): 86–106.
2. Cushing, Lara, John Faust, Laura Meehan August, Rose Cendak, Walker Wieland, and George Alexeeff. “Racial/ethnic Disparities in Cumulative Environmental Health Impacts in California: Evidence from a Statewide Environmental Justice Screening Tool (CalEnviroScreen 1.1).” American journal of public health (1971) 105, no. 11 (2015): 2341–2348.
3. Downey, Liam, Summer Dubois, Brian Hawkins, and Michelle Walker. “Environmental Inequality in Metropolitan America.” Organization & environment 21, no. 3 (2008): 270–294.
4. Driscoll, Mark W. The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
5. Grineski, Sara, Danielle Xiaodan Morales, Timothy Collins, Estefania Hernandez, and Ana Fuentes. “The Burden of Carcinogenic Air Toxics Among Asian Americans in Four US Metro Areas.” Population and environment 40, no. 3 (2019): 257–282.
6. Grineski, Sara E, Timothy W Collins, and Danielle X Morales. “Asian Americans and Disproportionate Exposure to Carcinogenic Hazardous Air Pollutants: A National Study.” Social science & medicine (1982) 185 (2017): 71–80.
7. Kim, Nadia Y. Refusing Death : Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA / Nadia Y. Kim. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2021.
8. Museus, Samuel D. “The Centrality of Critical Agency: How Asian American College Students Develop Commitments to Social Justice.” Teachers College record (1970) 123, no. 1 (2021).
9. Sian Kou-Giesbrecht. “Asian Americans: The Forgotten Minority in Ecology.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 101, no. 3 (2020): 1–5.
10. United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Outreach Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2001.