This seminar will examine the scattered genealogies and contemporary iterations of Asian American queer- and trans-of-color theory, critique, and cultural production. Such an examination is an inherently difficult task. Queer and trans studies, already diverse interdisciplinary fields, have distinct intellectual lineages, strains, and commitments. The interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies, meanwhile, is tasked to deal with the heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity--to repurpose cultural studies scholar Lisa Lowe's canonical phrase--of "Asian America." Asian diasporic formations of gender and sexuality, categories usually not disaggregated from the other in non-Euro-American conventions, reflect and depart from distinct histories of countries and communities of origin, migration, and displacement. This seminar will trace how these varied critical studies of gender, race, sexuality, and nation have nonetheless overlapped, while training our eyes towards future modes of critique.