User:Cat-N-Cactus

About Me
My name is Catherine, and I am currently an undergraduate student at Rice University studying Biological Sciences. While I love biology and health sciences, I am also strongly passionate about social issues and social justice, especially in regards to climate change, reproductive justice, systemic racism, and voting rights. I hope to contribute to these social issues on Wikipedia, expanding knowledge on current movements, leaders, and developments.

Proposed Topics
I am interested in the queer Asian American experience and Asian American LGBTQ+ activism. As a queer Asian American myself, these topics are very personal to me. I hope to learn and contribute information about the history and current state of LGTBQ+ activism in Asian American communities. Although there exists many pages on general LGBTQ+ topics in the United States and a page about the African-American LGBT community, there is little material reflecting the intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and Asian American identities. I propose to add a new section to the article Asian American activism to write about LGBTQ+ activism specifically in Asian American communities.

Below is a list of references that I plan to use as source material for writing about this topic: Secondarily, I am interested in Asian American environmental activism. This topic also feels personal to me, and Wikipedia lacks information on environmental justice issues as it specifically relates to the Asian American community. I similarly propose to add a section to the article Asian American activism to contribute information about Asian American environmental activism. Here are the references I've gathered on this topic:
 * 1) Alvin Eng, Eng. Q & A Queer And Asian: Queer & Asian In America. Vol. 201. Temple University Press, 2018.
 * 2) Cheng, Patrick S. “The Rainbow Connection: Bridging Asian American and Queer Theologies.” Theology & sexuality 17, no. 3 (2011): 235–264.
 * 3) De Jesus, Melinda L. “RAW: ‘Raunchy Asian Women’ and Resistance to Queer Studies in the Asian Pacific American Studies Classroom.” Radical teacher (Cambridge) 70, no. 70 (2004): 26–31.
 * 4) Grice, Helena, and Crystal Parikh. “Feminisms and Queer Interventions into Asian America.” In The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature, 169–182. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
 * 5) Kazyak, Emily. “Introduction to Special Issue ‘Geographies of Sexualities.’” Journal of lesbian studies 24, no. 3 (2020): 173–185.
 * 6) Kha, Doua. “FOR QUEER ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH WHO ARE RESILIENT AND TENACIOUS: HOW QUEER ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH AND THEIR ADVOCATES CONFRONT THE TENSIONS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.” Asian American policy review 29 (2019): 12–.
 * 7) Kuo, Linda, Simone Perez-Garcia, Lindsey Burke, Vic Yamasaki, and Thomas Le. “Performance, Fantasy, or Narrative: LGBTQ+ Asian American Identity through Kpop Media and Fandom.” Journal of homosexuality (2020): 1–24.
 * 8) Magpantay, Glenn D. “TIGER: A Sustainable Model for Building LGBTQ AAPI Community.(typography of Intersectional Gender and Sexual Empowerment and Resistance)(lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer; Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander).” Asian American policy review 30 (2020): 5–.
 * 9) Sueyoshi, Amy. “Queer Asian American Historiography.” In The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press, 2016.
 * 10) “Teen, Queer, and Asian: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Plus Asian American Students’ Experiences in Schools.” The Journal of school health (2021).
 * 1) Crawford, Chiyo. “From Desert Dust to City Soot: Environmental Justice and Japanese American Internment in Karen Tei Yamashita’s ‘Tropic of Orange.’” Melus 38, no. 3 (2013): 86–106.
 * 2) Cushing, Lara, John Faust, Laura Meehan August, Rose Cendak, Walker Wieland, and George Alexeeff. “Racial/ethnic Disparities in Cumulative Environmental Health Impacts in California: Evidence from a Statewide Environmental Justice Screening Tool (CalEnviroScreen 1.1).” American journal of public health (1971) 105, no. 11 (2015): 2341–2348.
 * 3) Downey, Liam, Summer Dubois, Brian Hawkins, and Michelle Walker. “Environmental Inequality in Metropolitan America.” Organization & environment 21, no. 3 (2008): 270–294.
 * 4) Driscoll, Mark W. The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
 * 5) Grineski, Sara, Danielle Xiaodan Morales, Timothy Collins, Estefania Hernandez, and Ana Fuentes. “The Burden of Carcinogenic Air Toxics Among Asian Americans in Four US Metro Areas.” Population and environment 40, no. 3 (2019): 257–282.
 * 6) Grineski, Sara E, Timothy W Collins, and Danielle X Morales. “Asian Americans and Disproportionate Exposure to Carcinogenic Hazardous Air Pollutants: A National Study.” Social science & medicine (1982) 185 (2017): 71–80.
 * 7) Kim, Nadia Y. Refusing Death : Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA / Nadia Y. Kim. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2021.
 * 8) Museus, Samuel D. “The Centrality of Critical Agency: How Asian American College Students Develop Commitments to Social Justice.” Teachers College record (1970) 123, no. 1 (2021).
 * 9) Sian Kou-Giesbrecht. “Asian Americans: The Forgotten Minority in Ecology.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 101, no. 3 (2020): 1–5.
 * 10) United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Outreach Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2001.