Amanda Wan

Amanda Wan(she/they) is a queer han chinese settler based in the unceded, occupied territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. They create poetry, artwork, and scholarship about sad ghosts and queer love. She is currently completing an MA English at UBC, with research and organizing interests in queer Asian diasporic literatures and visualities. Their areas of work include the aesthetics of racial melancholia, intergenerational trauma, and affect in the psychic landscapes continually haunted by colonial violence; contexts include postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and critical race, gender, and sexuality theories, and techno-Orientalism. Through heartwork/artwork, she continually feels her way through the sea of ancestral memory, daydreaming about the collective freedom to be soft and strange without fear.