
Lee examines examines the music, video, performances, and social media presence of singer-songwriter Mitski, and poet and writer Ocean Vuong, to consider how the act of staying in, rather than going (or coming) out, gives shape to Asian American asociality. Lee responds to the idea of “Asian American asociality” which speaks to how Asian Americans have been racially figured as a problem for and of sociality, as assimilated, yet socially isolated, unrelatable subjects.