How we grasp care through transnational flows of queer/feminist discourses? “Care” is a major keyword in Anglophone academic and activist contexts, used with increasing frequency in the so-called “post-COVID” era by feminists and queers and coupled with concepts such as transformative justice, decolonizing therapy, and so on. In places such as the U.S. and U.K., POC feminist and LGBTQ+ communities face more immediately recognizable pressures of heteronormativity and racism but also suffer from discrimination and violence within their own spaces, pointing to the urgency of issues of care. This talk introduces U.S.- and U.K.-based queer/woman of color feminist perspectives on care, examining tensions that appear when related concepts move into Japanese- and Chinese-language contexts, or they are utilized in Asian diasporic activism in Western countries. When “care” shaped by Anglophone legacies of queer women of color feminisms encounters historical and political contexts of Asia, what forms of contradiction and violence do we find embedded within these acts of translation? On the other hand, what potential lies in these transnational and translingual cultural flows?
