with Eric C. Wat, mads lê, and James Huỳnh

In this vibrant conversation, writer and activist Eric Wat will be in 
discussion with mads lê (memory worker/scholar) and James Huỳnh 
(public health organizer/scholar) about his recently published book, 
Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (University of 
Washington, 2021). While the discussion will begin with Eric’s book –
a community memoir that centers the political activist labor of thirty 
Asian American AIDS activists during the 1980s and 1990s – the 
conversation will open to questions regarding queer of color 
genealogies that inspire multigenerational activisms; joy in 
community organizing; and the different ways of stewarding and 
sharing generational knowledges of activism, grief, and pleasure 
across queer of color communities.

Conversation will be Facilitated by Associate Professor Crystal Baik 
Questions? crystal.baik@ucr.edu

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Co-sponsored by UCR Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies; Faculty Commons Performing Difference Working Group at the Center for Ideas and Society; Asian Pacific Student Programs ; LGBT Resource Center