AAAS 2023 | University of Washington Press Blog

We look forward to connecting with everyone at the 2023 Association for Asian American Studies conference in Long Beach, California from April 6–8.

Browse new and forthcoming books in Asian American Studies by visiting our virtual exhibit. We are pleased to offer AAAS members a 30% discount on all orders. If placing an order through our website, you can take advantage of the conference discount with promo code WAAAS23 at checkout now through May 31, 2023.

2023 AAAS Award Winner

We are thrilled that the Association for Asian American Studies has awarded Eric C. Wat an Outstanding Achievement in History for Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles.

In this community memoir, Wats connects the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political by telling the stories of more than thirty Asian American AIDS activists. For many, the AIDS epidemic sparked the beginning of their continued work to build multiracial coalitions and confront broader systemic inequities. Detailing the intertwined realities of race and sexuality in AIDS activism, Love Your Asian Body offers a vital portrait of a movement founded on joy.

A brilliant, gorgeous, and nuanced rendering of queer Asian American activism in the 1980s and 1990s. This is the book I have been waiting for all my life.
—Anthony Christian Ocampo, author of The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race

This book is an inspiring work that deserves to be read as it is an integral piece towards understanding the queer Asian American struggle for sexual liberation and health equity.
—International Examiner