Eve Oishi and Alexandra Juhasz | Queer Asian American Cinema and the Elsewhere of Utopian Sexuality

Please join us for the first Arts and Justice spring quarter event featuring a conversation between Stanford Humanities Fellow Eve Oishi and Alexandra Juhasz. This talk traces a line from Norman Yonemoto's 1973 gay anti-war porn film Brothers through Asian American AIDS activist videos from the early 1990s to the present to think about how the “body genres” of queer male film and video perform a movement across time and geography in what I am calling speculative intercourse. This aesthetic and political mode bridges the gap between the explicit and implicit, enacting impossible scenes of sexual and generational intercourse while protesting the forces that prohibit and proscribe forms of queer intimacy and pleasure.    

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The talk will begin with a brief screening of videos and will be followed by a conversation with Alexandra Juhasz, author of AIDS TV and We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (with Theodore Kerr) and director of Video Remains.   

About the Series

Blokker Research Workshop

The Arts and Justice workshop is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from Joanne Blokker, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.