Flowing between the Personal and Collective: Being Human beyond Categories of Study

Diane (Di) Yoong and Krystal M. Perkins
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Diane (Di) Yoong: Critical Social/Personality and Environmental Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
Krystal M. Perkins: Psychology, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY 10577, USA

Societies, 2020, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Caught between different structures of identity hierarchies, queer and trans Asian American experiences have been systematically erased, forgotten, or purposely buried; as such, their experiences have often been minimized. In this paper, we seek to reimagine personhood in psychology through the perspectives of queer and trans Asian American subjectivities. Beginning with a brief discussion on the impacts of coloniality on conventional conceptualizations of who counts as human, we then consider how this is taken up in psychology, especially for multiply marginalized folx. Moving beyond the possibilities of representational politics, we explore possible decolonial frameworks and alternative methodologies in psychology to center queer and trans Asian American personhoods and to see them as more than just research participants.

Keywords: Asian American; Asian; sexuality; LGBTQ+; queer; trans; identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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