ABSTRACT
This chapter borrows E. Patrick Johnson's “Quare” Studies to critique the paradoxes between reconstitutions and fragmentations of the normal and ordinary embedded in the material realities of gaysian [gay + Asian] identities, performances, and politics. Specifically, this chapter interrogates how gaysian subjects self-represent their internalizations of and/or resistances against the politics of racialized gender via YouTube. This chapter also examines how such gaysian narratives sustain the privileges of whiteness as gay cultural capital. To interrupt and break through the working of whiteness and cis-heteronormativity, this chapter reconsiders how the embodied performance of gaysian fabulosity works as a “quare” performative strategy.
