Asians Loving Asians

I also appreciate Claire Sisco King who has published my preliminary work from this book monograph project titled, “Sticky rice politics: Impossible possibilities of queerness in and across Yellow Fever and Front Cover,” under her editorship for Women’s Studies in Communication (2020). Along with two of your kind, amazing, and intelligent reviewers, you have intellectually pushed me to articulate my thoughts during the numbers of revisions. Also, special thanks to Taylor & Francis for granting permission to reprint my previously published essay described above as Chapter I of this book.

In addition, I extend a special note of gratitude to all of the seven co-researchers who have willingly participated in interviews with me for this monograph book project. Moreover, I thank the entire Peter Lang team for their support and for making sure the quality of this monograph book throughout the publication process.

I am also grateful of the fact that I have been given various speaking opportunities to present some aspects of Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics throughout the years. I thank for having received the productive feedback from the audience in the following venues: National Communication Association’s International and Intercultural Communication Division; University of Washington’s Communication Department; University of Denver’s Communication Studies’ Department; and Gonzaga University’s Critical Race and Ethnic Studies’ Department.

I also want to extend a sincere note of gratitude to the Department of Communication and Journalism at University of New Mexico where has thus far provided an opportunity for me to grow as a Critical Cultural Communication scholar for last decade. While my faculty experience has been and is quite stressful, I appreciate I am learning how to struggle and survive with the harsh-realities of the U.S. higher education industry which cannot be simply ignored. I first thank to Ilia Rodríguez, David Weiss, Tamar Ginossar, Susana Martinez Guillem, Marco Briziarelli, and Judith White whom I have been working together since my first day at University of New Mexico. I also appreciate the opportunity to work with colleagues who inspire me to keep going as a scholar. Thanks to Jaylen deMaria, Cleophas Muneri, Yangsun Hong, Michael LeChuga, Mohammed Yousef, Evan Ashworth, and Dave Keating. Moreover, I thank to colleagues from my affliated departments and programs such as Nancy López, Assata Zerai, Glenabah Martinez, Bee Chamcharastr, Shiv Dasai, and Steven Verney.

Furthermore, I thank to our former department colleagues Mary Jane Collier, Myra S. Washington, Marissa Floyd, and Shadee Abdi who have moved on to other jobs.

In addition, I want to thank to all students whom I am working with and have worked with before. Teaching keeps me sane! I appreciate my former and current Ph.D. advisees who makes me feel why I need to stay in New Mexico. Thanks to Zhao Ding, Hannah Long, Anthony Zarinana, Sophie Jones, Kamela Rasmusen, Keisuke Kimura, Cassidy Ellis, Austin Miller, Ruoning “Arrow” Xia, Emerson “Kai” Armstrong, Anh Nguyen, Tomide Oloruntobi, and Olivia Roe. I also thank two of my former MA advisees Resile Cortes and Benjamin Bradley who both have gone to pursue Ph.D. degrees in Communication at Arizona State University at different times. Special thanks to Erin Watley, Godfried Asante, Myra “Nikkie” Roberts, Santhosh Chandrashekar, Seonah Kim, and Lindsay Scott whom I have worked with as their dissertation or thesis committee member.

There are also many scholar-friends or colleagues who have supported me during the course of this particular monograph book project whether they know this or not. Thanks to Leilani Nishime, Tina M. Harris, Bryant K. Alexander, Rachel A. Griffin, Rona T. Halualani, Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, Diane Grimes, Gloria Pindi Nziba, Sarah Amira de la Garza, Ahmet Atay, Satoshi Toyosaki, Jeffrey Q McCune, Jr., Raquel Moreira, Chuck Morris, Amber Johnson (also known as Cypress Amber Reign), Lore/tta LeMaster, Elizabeth Whittington, Cerise Glenn, Marnel Niles Goins, Richie Neil Hao, Tony Adams, Aisha Durham, Robin M. Boylorn, Karma R. Chávez, Ralina L. Joseph, Kristina Scharp, David Oh, Lisa Flores, Ashely Mack, Kent A. Ono, David McMahan, Robert Gutierrez-Perez, Haneen Ghabra, Bryan McCann, Stacey Sowards, Javon L. Johnson, Gust A. Yep, Andrew Spieldenner, Stacey Holman Jones, Pavi Prasad, Sachi Sekimoto, Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Larry Gross, Christopher Brown, Chuyun Oh, Ako Inuzuka, Richard Craig, Mark C. Hopson, Kathryn Sorrells, Anthony Cuomo, Daniel Stern, Sandra Faulkner, Pamela J. Lannutti, Lucy Miller, Meshell Sturgis, Anjali Vats, Jason Wrench, Heather Hundley, Gina Castle-Bell, Late Dan Brouwer, Mohan Dutta, Jaime McDonald, James Welker, C. Winter Han, Jesús Gregorio Smith, Kimberlee Pérez, Lisa Hanasono, Shuzhen Huang, Terrie Wong, Megan Morrisey, Trina Wright-Dixson, Truman Keys, Jenna Hanchey, Jessica Johnson, Robert Meija, Dana Cloud, Nina Maria Lozano, Shaunak Sastry, Roberta Chevrette, and Meina Liu.

Before closing this acknowledgment section, I want to thank my personal friends such as Kiyoko & Bill Simmons, Marie Kuroda, Mika Oh, Fujiyo Ogata, Hiroe Takahashi, Nanako Onoue, Yukiko Kanatani, Etsuko Shinohara, Michiko Tamura, Paul Scotto di Pompeo, and Keiko Yoshi for having listened to my struggle of writing this monograph book project throughout the years. Now that this book is published, you won’t need to hear me complaining. Furthermore, I dedicate my efforts on Asians loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics to all who struggle every day to fight for intersectional queer politics of race in and across local, national, and global contexts. Lastly, I so appreciate my mother, Yukari Eguchi and my father, Itsuro Eguchi for their lifelong support system. There is no word on this planet I can use to thank you two.

Thank you, everyone!!!!!! Love you!!!!