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Photographs courtesy of Keva X. Bui
Filmed by Quyên Nguyen-Le
Keva X. Bui (they/them) is a writer, educator, and scholar of Asian American culture, U.S. militarism, and the politics of scientific knowledge production. Currently, they are a PhD Candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego with a graduate certificate in Critical Gender Studies. Keva’s research engages Asian American literary and visual culture alongside feminist science studies in order to revise how we interpret archives of Cold War military science. Their academic writing has appeared/is forthcoming in Amerasia Journal, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and Journal of Asian American Studies.
This collection of abstract self-portrait photographs experiments with lights, color, and my body to imagine what an otherwise world, temporality, or sense of being may look like. The Vietnamese body has often been overdetermined by images of U.S. militarized violence—what might be possible if we refuse this narrative containment? Rooted in desire, playfulness, and clairvoyant fantasies, this piece places the future in abstraction, fashioning a speculative space of multiplicitous potentiality for our own queer making, doing, and being.