Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article, I introduce Queer Tiger Mom, a conceptual project by performance artist ManChyna that disrupts Asian desire for assimilation into white futurity. The Queer Tiger Mom project responds to two controversial texts that inform North American Asian racialization and its assimilatory relationship with whiteness—the Maclean’s Magazine article “‘Too Asian’?” and the American publication of Amy Chua’s book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Disassimilation is my neologism, applying José Muñoz’s concept of disidentification to the narrative of assimilation into liberal multiculturalism. Disassimilation describes Queer Tiger Mom’s assimilation-focused form of Muñoz’s analytic category, neither rejecting nor fully adopting the desire for racial incorporation. ManChyna’s Queer Tiger Mom takes multiple forms as a cultural text—a party, performance and song (“Tiger Mom,” 2012). i With all its elements taken together, Queer Tiger Mom mobilizes the racialized, gendered and sexual pathologies projected onto North American Asians, which Chua and Maclean’s reproduce. Channeling these pathologies through Man-Chyna’s queer Asian masculinity, Queer Tiger Mom re-circuits the sexual and racial puerility that David Eng (2001) argues is projected onto Asian masculinity. ManChyna’s Queer Tiger Mom crosses this psychosexual-racial pathology with a gender-inappropriate motherhood, evading these tropes by exaggerating them in a physically impossible and antisocial sexual union—dom top mother and power bottom son in one versatile body. Queer Tiger Mom depravedly embraces sexual and racial pathology, animating and terminating the heterosexual futurism of Battle Hymn by mobilizing Chua’s servile assimilation with the deathly potential of queer Asian masculinity. By queerly exaggerating the pathologies manifest in Chua’s Battle Hymn and ManChyna’s embodiment, Queer Tiger Mom emulates, but ultimately denaturalizes, their presumed connections.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".