Education
2016 MFA, Comics, California College of the Arts
2010 MA, Asian American Studies, Concentration in Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
2007 BA with High Distinction, Visual Studies, California College of the Arts
Fellowships | Grants | Residencies
2020–21 COVID Command Center Artist-in-Residence, City and County of San Francisco
2016 Excellence in Student Leadership Award, California College of the Arts
2014–16 CCA Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2015 Graduate All College Honors Award, California College of the Arts
2015 Endeavor Foundation Scholarship, Endeavor Foundation for the Arts
2015 CCA Student Travel Grant, California College of the Arts
2015 APIQWTC Scholarship, Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community
2012 Naming Our Destiny Grant, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
2012 Creating Change Conference Scholarship, API Equality Northern California
2010 Asian American Studies Department Travel Grant, University of California, Los Angeles
2009–10 Rose Eng Chin & Helen Wong Eng Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
2009–10 Ben & Alice Hirano Academic Prize, University of California, Los Angeles
2009–10 Institute of American Cultures Research Grant, University of California, Los Angeles
2008–10 Asian American Studies Departmental Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
2009 Center for the Study of Women Graduate Travel Grant, University of California, Los Angeles
2008–09 Del Amo Foundation Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
2008–09 College Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
2003 Passport to Education Award, British Columbia Ministry of Education, Canada
Publications
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES | BOOK CHAPTERS
“Now You See Me, But You Don’t: Neoliberal Visibility and the Politics of Being Counted,” co-authored with Jacob Lau, Feral Feminisms 9 (2019): 56-74.
“Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung’s Creative Modalities of Resignification,” in Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, ed. Jodi Kim et al. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 252-268.
“Badass, Motherfucker, and Meat-Eater: Kit Yan’s Trans of Color Slammin’ Critique and the Archives of Possibilities,” nineteen sixty nine: an ethnic studies journal 1, no. 1 (2012): 23-38.
NON-REFEREED ARTICLES
“An Unruly Archive of Healing: Struggling Against the Professionalization of Community Building, Immigration Enforcement, and Queer/Trans of Color Cultural Amnesia,” Dreamers Adrift, February 23, 2013.
“Rewriting the Written: FTM Self-Making and the Performance of Possibilities in Sean Dorsey’s Uncovered: The Diary Project,” CSW Update Newsletter, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, April 2009.
CREATIVE WRITING
“Proximity and the Shifting Contours of Belonging,” The Feminist Wire, May 28, 2013.
Poetry and Poetics Statement, in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books, 2013), 76-86.
“I can finally breathe…,” Dreamers Adrift, May 14, 2012.
“Proof,” in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (New York, NY: Seal Press, 2010), 242-246.
VISUAL ART | COMICS (PRINT)
“soft skin,” OUT/LOOK & The Birth of The Queer 18 (Fall 2017): 24. (Solicited)
“Memory of an Avalanche,” in MFA in Comics Anthology Vol. 2 (San Francisco, CA: California College of the Arts, 2016), 110-127.
Cover Art, Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader (third edition) (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2016).
Cover Art, Queer Necropolitics, ed. Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, and Silvia Posocco (New York, NY: Routledge, 2013).
Cover Art, freitext 21 (April 2013).
Cover Art, Gender Reel Festival Guide (Gender Reel Productions, 2012).
Cover Art, Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader (second edition) (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2009).
Artist Pages, Sarnsaeng Arun Magazine No. 8 (March-April 1998). (Solicited)
VISUAL ART | COMICS (WEB-BASED)
“The View from 2017: What Does OUT/LOOK Mean to Today’s Artists & Writers?,” OUT/LOOK & The Birth of The Queer, 2017. (Solicited)
Love in the Time of War, online exhibition curated by Việt Lê and Jennifer Vanderpool. (Solicited)
Illustrations, Vetch Poetry No. 2 (Spring 2016). (Solicited)
“Glitter Bomb. National Queer Arts Festival 2015: Connections,” Queer Cultural Center, 2015.
Artist Pages, Local Nomad: An Online Journal of Writing and Art (Spring 2015). (Solicited)
“Queer it Yourself: Tools for Survival,” Queer Cultural Center, 2011.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
San Francisco Camerawork, SFC Video Archives- Love in the Time of War, video recording, directed by Megan McHugh (2017; San Francisco, CA: Art Curved Straight, 2017).
Grace Hong and Rod Ferguson, “Rod Ferguson & Grace Hong: A Conversation on Strange Affinities and the Arts,” Contemporary, May 7, 2017.
Noa Ha, “The Art of Dissection: A Reading Experience of Jinthana Haritaworn’s The Biopolitics of Mixing” (trans.), freitext 21 (April 2013): 52-56.
Dorothy June Fraser, “Occidental Paradise: Bo Luengsuraswat on Intercepting Misrepresentation,” Plenitude Magazine, February 18, 2013.
Jason U. Kim and Kristen Sun, “Visual Media: Bo Luengsuraswat, Interview” cover art competition runner-up, nineteen sixty nine: an ethnic studies journal 1, no. 1 (2012): 14-20.
Exhibitions
2018 Portals: A Group Show of Speculative Fictions, San Francisco Main Public Library
2018 The Floating Library, Lake Phelan, St. Paul
2017 OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer, GLBT Historical Society Archives & Museum, San Francisco
2017 Illustrated Justice / Graphing Freedom, Omi Gallery at Impact Hub Oakland
2017 General Strike / Huelga General, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha, Minneapolis
2017 International Transgender Day of Visibility Art & Music Festival, sponsored by TEAK – Trans Empowerment, Museum Siam, Bangkok, Thailand
2017 Listen to the Silence: The Annual Asian American Students’ Association Conference, Stanford University
2016 Decolonizing Comics: A Reading and Discussion Series Featuring Cartoonists of Color, Berkeley Central Public Library
2016 Art of Zines, Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design, San Jose
2016 Love in the Time of War, San Francisco Camerawork; Glass Box Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara; and online exhibition (catalogue)
2016 The Floating Library, Lake Phelan, St. Paul
2016 Third Annual Queer Comics Expo, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
2016 Decolonizing Comics, Omi Gallery at Impact Hub Oakland
2016 Book Arts Competition, California College of the Arts Library
2016 Juried Exhibition, Gender in Translation Open Critwith Elisabeth Lebovici, sponsored by the Consulate General of France in San Francisco
2016 The Floating Library | LA Art Book Fair, Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles
2015 Revisions: CCA Student of Color Coalition 5th Annual Exhibition, Post Office Gallery, California College of the Arts
2015 APAture 2015: Future Tense, Comics and Illustration Showcase, sponsored by Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco Main Public Library
2015 Emanata: An MFA in Comics Exhibition, California College of the Arts
2015 Glitter Bomb, National Queer Arts Festival 2015: Connections, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
2015 Queers & Comics: LGBT Cartoonists’ Conference, City University of New York
2014 Refractions: Technologies of Queer Place-Making, Samuel Riera Gallery, Cuba
2013 Featured Artist, freitext magazin 21 Launch Party, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, Germany
2013 UNDOCUNATION, UC Berkeley International House
2012 Papers: Stories by Undocumented Youth Book Release Party & Exhibition, UCLA Labor Center
2012 Gender Reel Festival, William Way Community Center, Philadelphia
2012 For the Love of Justice Silent Auction, Leadership Development in Interethnic Relations, Los Angeles
2011 Queer It Yourself—Tools for Survival, National Queer Arts Festival, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
2009 DIGNITY: A Celebration of Trans and Queer Youth of Color, sponsored by QTEAM Los Angeles, Minority AIDS Project, Los Angeles
2009 Fresh Meat in the Gallery VI: Defying Gravities, sponsored by Fresh Meat Productions, San Francisco LGBT Community Center
2007 Undergraduate Senior Exhibition, California College of the Arts
2006 Interdisciplinary Summer Studio Exhibition, École Cantonale d’art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland
Performances | Readings
2017 CLASSY & NASTY | The Valentine’s Edition, Tribe Oakland (Choreographer: India Sky Davis)
2016 CLA$$Y & NA$TY HALLOWEEN, Newton House, Oakland (Choreographer: India Sky Davis)
2016 MFA in Comics Graduate Reading, California College of the Arts
2012 The People’s Market, Chuco’s Justice Center, Inglewood
2012 DIGNITY: A Celebration of Trans and Queer Youth of Color, sponsored by QTEAM Los Angeles, Chuco’s Justice Center, Inglewood
2012 Caracol Marketplace, Tropico de Nopal Gallery Art-Space, Los Angeles
2012 Soul Patch Fundraiser Concert, Los Angeles
2012 Trans*Studies Conference, University of La Verne College of Law, Ontario, CA
2012 Past Present | Future Imperatives: Queer Space Time, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 The Ms. TangTang Show Gallery Exhibit, sponsored by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco
2011 Collaborative Project, “Peanut Sauce Poem,” Cave Canem/Kundiman Reading & Salon, Eastwind Books of Berkeley (performance in collaboration with Jai Arun Ravine)
2010 CraftNight, Akbar, Los Angeles
2010 Hollywood Queer Open Mic, BHS Hollywood Family Recovery Center, Los Angeles
2007 Collaborative Project, “Mandala,” Flux On/Flux Off: CCA vs. UCSC, A Performance Competition, California College of the Arts (performance in collaboration with CCA FLUX group)
Screenings
2017 Toronto Queer Film Festival, “Freedom to Move, Freedom to Stay,” co-sponsored by No One Is Illegal – Toronto, Steelworker’s Hall, Toronto, Canada
2015 OUTTAKES 2: Queer Asian Cinema, sponsored by Queer Cultural Center, California College of the Arts (Moderator: Pratibha Parmar)
2015 (Re)visions: Performance Art Film Festival, Oakland Public Library César E. Chávez Branch (Moderator: Indira Allegra)
2015 Quoting Ourselves: A Queer Archive, San Francisco State University
2014 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, Roxie Theater, San Francisco
2012 Gender Reel Festival, William Way Community Center, Philadelphia
2011 Tenth Anniversary San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, CounterPULSE, San Francisco
2007 Project Voiceover Film Screening, sponsored by Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco
2007 Unchained Queer Youth Conference / Young Women’s Health Fair, San Francisco State University
Commissions
2018 Illustration for Film, Light on a Path, Follow
2017 Comics, OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer, GLBT Historical Society Archives & Museum, San Francisco
2016 Poster Design and Illustration, Stand with Ky Peterson
2014 Poster Design and Illustration, CCA Grad BBQ, California College of the Arts
2014 Illustration for Film, Zenebech
Collections
East Side Freedom Library, St. Paul
Southern California Library, Archives and Collections, Los Angeles
The Floating Library, St. Paul
UCLA Asian American Studies Center Library
Art of Zines Library, Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design, San Jose
Conference Participation
PAPERS | PROJECTS PRESENTED
2017 “Graphic Memoir as Visual Translation of Memory,” New Standards for Deviance: Recent Manga and Queer Critique, Queers & Comics Conference, California College of the Arts
2017 “Memory of an Avalanche: A Graphic Memoir and the Decolonization of Multicultural Political Imaginaries,” Decolonizing Comics Workshop, Listen to the Silence: The Annual Asian American Students’ Association Conference, Stanford University
2015 “Memory of an Avalanche: A Graphic Memoir Work-in-Progress,” Queer Politics, Agit-Prop and Editorial Comics, Queers & Comics: LGBT Cartoonists’ Conference, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, City University of New York
2012 “An Unruly Archive of Healing: Struggling Against the Institutionalization of Community Building, Immigration Enforcement, and Queer/Trans of Color Cultural Amnesia,” The Second Annual Queer Yo Mind International Conference, San Francisco State University
2012 “State as a Serial Killer: Death in the Name of Prosperity and the Necropolitics of Citizenship in Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit,” The Cutting Edge of Anime/Manga Studies, Anime Expo Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, Los Angeles
2012 “When Upward Mobility’s Turned Upside Down: Trans of Color Slammin’ Critique and the Archives of Abject Possibilities,” Transgender Insurrection: Gender Non-Conforming Materialist Political Imaginaries, Cultural Studies Association Conference, University of California, San Diego
2012 “A Critical Resignification of Belonging: Defying Transnormativity through Asian American Cultural Production,” Trans* Normativities: Expressions, Regulations, and Impacts, Trans*Studies Conference, Association for Gender Research, Education, Academia & Action, University of La Verne College of Law, Ontario, CA
2011 “Arts & Crafts, Elsewhere & Home, Mama & Me: Bobby Cheung and the Subversive Acts of Resignification,” Transgender Studies After Orientalism: Film and Visual Culture, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, New Orleans
2011 “Now You See Me, but You Don’t: On Neoliberal Exceptionals, Transgender Citizenship, and the Politics of Counting,” co-authored with Jacob Lau, Racial Statecraft, the Law, and Critical Jurisprudence, Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: A Major Conference, University of California, Riverside
2011 “‘Intersectionality Acts from the Margin’ and Back Again: Women of Color, ‘Insider’s Ethnography,’ and the Commodification of Racial Difference at Thinking Gender 2010,” Conscripted Subjects: Disciplined Society, Critique & the Humanities Conference, University of California, Los Angeles
2010 “Transgender People at the Limits of Privacy Rights: Reconceptualizing Freedom, Equality, and Difference Under Neoliberal Democracy,” Public Privacy, Queer Studies Graduate Symposium, University of California, Davis
2010 “Fostering Ghosts to the Point of (Re)Birth: Parties, Hauntings, and the Everyday Performances of Survivability among Trans and Queer People of Color,” Quarantined Hybrid Identities and Contested Communities, Culture and Theory Conference, University of California, Irvine
2010 “In the Comfort of Your Own Home: Foreign Exchange Programs and the Costs of Multiculturalism,” Of Home and Homogeneity: Creating Spaces through Migrations, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Austin
2010 “Badass, Motherfucker, and Meat-Eater: Kit Yan and the Assemblages of Asian American Transgender Masculinity,” Where the Body Meets Policy, Thinking Gender Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Los Angeles
2009 “Performing Ability, Reaffirming Gender: Proving Disabled Female-to-Male Transgender Subjectivity,” Transgender Health and Well-Being, The Fifth Annual Gender, Sexuality, and Power Student Research Conference, California State University, Los Angeles
2008 “Still Running Towards the Unknown: America’s Next Top Model and the Impossible Construction of Universal Girlhood,” Women’s Studies I: Advising the Gendered Body, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Francisco
2007 “Fluxus and Beyond: Redefining the Everyday,” Live Art Symposium, California College of the Arts
DISCUSSANT
2010 Bromance, Kinship, and Mandates: Unveiling Taboo Topics, Butch Voices Conference, Los Angeles, October 9.
Invited Talks
2021 “shadow: work-in-progress,” Queer Art & Visual Culture, California College of the Arts
2018 “Critical Relationality and Embodied Shadows,” Queer and Trans of Color Cultural Productions, California College of the Arts
2016 “The Importance of Vulnerability and Humility: A Workshop,” Foundations in Critical Studies: Networks & Connectivity, California College of the Arts
2016 “Critical Connections, Creative Intersections: Queer Practices of Belonging through Interdisciplinary Cultural Interventions,” Foundations in Critical Studies: Networks & Connectivity, California College of the Arts
2016 “Love in the Time of War Exhibit Work-in-Progress,” LGBTQ Wars & Loves, San Francisco Camerawork/California College of the Arts
2016 “Visual Analysis in Comics Workshop,” Oakland International High School and CCA Pre-College Summer Comics Workshop, California College of the Arts
2016 “Memory of an Avalanche: A Graphic Memoir Work-in-Progress,” Foundations in Critical Studies: Embodiment, California College of the Arts
2015 “Memory of an Avalanche: A Graphic Memoir Work-in-Progress,” Foundations in Critical Studies: Embodiment, California College of the Arts
Public Panel Discussions | Workshops
2017 Queerness in Flux: Shifting Lesbian, Trans and Gender-Queer Identities, panelist, OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer Exhibition, GLBT History Museum, San Francisco
2017 “Drawing Vulnerability, Crafting Resistance” Artist Dialogue, organizer and moderator, Illustrated Justice/Graphing Freedom Exhibition, Omi Gallery at Impact Hub Oakland
2016 Love in the Time of War Artivist Panel, panelist, Love in the Time of War Exhibition, San Francisco Camerawork
2016 Decolonizing Comics: A Reading and Discussion Series Featuring Cartoonists of Color, panelist, Berkeley Central Public Library
2016 Decolonizing Comics: ‘Dear Brother’ CLOSING NITE Panel Reception, panelist, Omi Gallery at Impact Hub Oakland
2015 Graphic Memoirs, panelist, APAture 2015: Future Tense, Comics and Illustration Showcase, San Francisco Main Public Library
2009 Paper Stars and Queer Self-Making Workshop, organizer, DIGNITY: A Celebration of Trans and Queer Youth of Color, QTEAM Los Angeles, Minority AIDS Project, Los Angeles
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