My paper “Disaffected Fatigue of Asian Camp and its Affective Dissonance” was awarded a runner-up winner for the 2024 Biddy Martin Prize for the best essay in LGBT studies at Cornell University. It analyzes artist Sin Wai Kin’s drag performance against the backdrop of camp theory and mainstream drag and camp culture’s pervasive whiteness. I argue that Sin mobilizes disaffection and an affective dissonance as a form of Asian camp and advocates its political efficacy.

Watch a recording of Sin’s amazing performance, Sandwich, which inspired this essay here!