ABSTRACT
This autoethnography rethinks the anti-Asian slur, “Go back to your country!” in the positionality of a Taiwanese queer man sociologist in the US and his transnationalization of COVID life. Guided by Martha Lugones’s “‘world’-traveling” theory, I use quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the 823 posts on the author’s Facebook in the first 11 months of 2020 to examine the social changes and racial/ethnic complexity of transnational thinking, breathing, and feeling in the global pandemic. This autoethnography reveals the political disruptions in “traveling” between Taiwan and the US, as well as the changing policies of mask-wearing in two phases and their racial politics to Asians. Another dimension of world- traveling between male privilege and migrant precarity, along with the flexibility of the Lugonesian “arrogant perceiver” and “the object of arrogant perception,” is discussed reflexively. My autoethnography calls for further cross-cultural understandings among feminists/queer people of all races and migrant statuses and for advancing loving through knowing among anti-inequality comrades in crises.
