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Mel Y. Chen is an academic whose scholarship intersects many fields, including queer theory, gender studies, animal studies, critical race theory, Asian American studies, disability studies, science studies, and critical linguistics.

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Average rating: 4.18 · 511 ratings · 59 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect 4.05 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility by Reina Gossett (Editor), Eric A. Stanley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Johanna Burton (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crip Genealogies by Theri Alyce Pickens (Foreword), Mel Y. Chen (Editor), Alison Kafer (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping by Dan Byers (Editor), Victoria Sung (Editor), Candice Lin (Artist) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Mel Y. Chen (2012-07-10) by Mel Y. Chen, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Many nuances of racism, while in some ways articulated around “race,” are themselves built upon many complex animacy hierarchies (animality being one), each of which can potentially implicate directly the charge of racial abjection without reference to race itself. Though”
― Mel Y. Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

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“two—queerness and toxicity—have an affinity. They truck with negativity, marginality, and subject-object confusions; they have, arguably, an affective intensity; they challenge heteronormative understandings of intimacy. Both”
― Mel Y. Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

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