Screening Shirtless AZN Men

Sponsored by Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and co-sponsored by Asian American Studies, EAST House, and the Stanford Humanities Center.

Professor Celine Parreñas Shimizu, M.F.A., Ph.D.
University of California at Santa Barbara

“Screening Shirtless AZN Men:
The Full Frontal Power of Intimate Internet Industries”

Wednesday, October 30, 2013
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Stanford University
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall

Whether uncovering their faces or hiding them, Asian American men use the power of intimate internet industries, the online production and consumption of the body, in order to achieve a kind of visual proximity that crosses the distance of their usual otherness. In their use of porn and explicit imagery, porn star Keni Styles and videomaker/ scholar Nguyen Tan Hoang combine pleasure and politics so as to critique the limits placed on their sexual choices and opportunities.

Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her books are The Feminist Porn Book (The Feminist Press, 2013), Straitjacket Sexualities (Stanford, 2012) and The Hypersexuality of Race (Duke, 2007), winner of the 2009 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Her award-winning films including The Fact of Asian Women (2004) and Birthright: Mothering Across Difference (2009) distributed by Progressive Films and Third World Newsreel. For more films by Professor Celine Parreñas Shimizu, please click here.

Light refreshments will be served.

Three lucky attendees will receive a free autographed copy of The Feminist Porn Book at the event!

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