Jo Hsu
www.vjohsu.com
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics. I study (and practice) storytelling as political strategy.
Most of my work examines how social scripts around race, gender, and disability affect the lives of marginalized people. My writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Xtra*, and many other news media, literary, and academic outlets.
The questions driving my work are: What can the field(s) of rhetoric do to foster connection and care across difference? And, what stories must we tell to remake worlds conducive to one another’s thriving?
My current research examines the politicization of medical diagnoses such as "gender dysphoria," and "chronic fatigue syndrome." I also often write and speak on anti-trans politics, chronic illness, race and racism, and narrative strategy.
My pronouns are they/them/theirs.
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics. I study (and practice) storytelling as political strategy.
Most of my work examines how social scripts around race, gender, and disability affect the lives of marginalized people. My writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Xtra*, and many other news media, literary, and academic outlets.
The questions driving my work are: What can the field(s) of rhetoric do to foster connection and care across difference? And, what stories must we tell to remake worlds conducive to one another’s thriving?
My current research examines the politicization of medical diagnoses such as "gender dysphoria," and "chronic fatigue syndrome." I also often write and speak on anti-trans politics, chronic illness, race and racism, and narrative strategy.
My pronouns are they/them/theirs.
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covert, this piece focuses on the gradual harms that remain
unintelligible in everyday rhetorics. I join scholars such as E Cram,
who have tracked how white supremacy erodes our energies and
time. Considering inflammation as a record of such harm, I
examine how many chronic diseases inscribe systemic abuse onto
trans, disabled, and Black and brown bodyminds. Drawing from
the narrative traditions of cultural rhetorics, critical race
counterstory, and crip and trans of color critique, I story the
injured body back into our profession, asking our disciplines to
consider how our choices can enforce, expose, or resist the slow
burn of colonial exploitation.