Working with this quote from "The Poetics of Haunting in Asian American Poetry" Project (based on "Going Toward the Ghost: The Poetics of Haunting in Contemporary Asian American Poetry" (Jane Wong, 2016)), this panel seeks to address the queer intersections and interventions of story-telling and story-making of four queer-identified Southeast Asian activists, artists, and scholars. In what ways do our complex identities haunt the community we work with and work for, but also how do these identities haunt our own relationship with ourselves?

This conversation will be between Bee Vang (he; Hmong), June Kouch (she/ they, Khmer), Quyên Nguyễn Lê (she/they, Vietnamese), & J.A. Ruanto-Ramirez (he/they; Katutubo - Aeta, Igorot, Lipi, Moro).