Nadine Attewell

Bio

Nadine Attewell (she/her) is Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, where she also directs the Global Asia Program. She serves on the editorial board of Trans Asia Photography and is currently at work on a book entitled Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City.

Contributions

Looking With Images: Chinese Diasporic Worldmaking Beyond the Frame

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For someone who thinks a lot about photography, I have decidedly mixed feelings about being seen. In Canada, where I grew up and once again live, the state’s term for non-Indigenous racialized people like me is “visible minority.” The hypervisibility of racialization often confers a kind of invisibility, however. As a cis scholar of mixed Chinese descent, I am persistently misrecognized by other members of the institutions through which I move, mistaken for a student, staff member, a different...

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