Introduction: Key concepts, frameworks, and contexts for understanding anti-Asian racism in Australia 1 To support deeper understanding about Australia’s This set of resources centres the lived experiences migration history and its continuing impacts, and and perspectives of Asian and Asian Australian in response to surges in an. [...] and news stories to generate exaggerated This includes the diversion of limited resources, outbursts of public concern.xii Contemporary moral services, and funding away from First Nations panics are also seen in discourses on “stopping communities, and the continued failure to centre the boats” and claims about being “swamped” by First Nations sovereignty and ways of knowing, refugees and people s. [...] In effect, these Introduction: Key concepts, frameworks, and contexts for understanding anti-Asian racism in Australia 5 Anti-racism and solidarity practices actively seek to erase and repress the and secondary positions respectively, while Anti-Asian discourses and systemic racism existence of people of diverse genders and sexual expressions of Asian masculinities and femininities are products of. [...] This includes centring being full of it in a perverse way.xxv These Orientalist framework of gender was forcibly imposed onto the lived experiences, perspectives, resistance, portrayals of communities show how narratives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as about Asian and Asian Australian communities are and strength of Asian and Asian Australian part of settler colonialism. [...] binary understanding of genders, as a product of and experiences of Asian and Asian Australian colonialism, is entrenched in Australian society communities would therefore require us to honour and perpetuates transphobia and homophobia.
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