Research Muyang

Muyang Teng (they/them+) is a China-born queer artist, writer, and poetic agitator whose work explores the intersections of race, queerness, gender, sexuality, and toxicity under globalization and digitalization through experimental practices in poetry, translation, film, and critical theory. Born in China's Wu region and currently based between Jiangsu, Sichuan, Den Haag and elsewheres, their creative inquiries focus on the experiences of queer racialized body. Muyang emphasizes how toxic environments and embodied vulnerabilities shape marginalized subjectivities, using a hybrid methodology of practice-as-research to challenge Eurocentric, Sinocentric, heteronormative, and ableist paradigms.

Drawing on notions like animality, monstrosity, and parasitism, Muyang employs the grotesque, humorous, and erotic to disrupt dominant narratives and deconstruct identity categories. Their work features fragmented storytelling, intricate wordplay, and subversive humor to highlight the complexities of queer Sinophone identities while critically engaging with representational violence and translation politics. By embracing suspension, errantry, and opacity, Muyang aims to resist assimilation into rigid identity frameworks and reclaim spaces of ambiguity and multiplicity. Their art ultimately strives to provoke, unsettle, and open up new modes of queer/crip world-making beyond colonial and capitalist paradigms.

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Some Recent Research About Asexuality/Crip/Queer/Neuro/Trans... (slowly sorting)

Ace What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

🌟Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition

Maria Markiewicz (gender, queerness, asexuality)

https://www.mariamarkiewicz.com/about

https://postsexualfutures.com/

Ela Przybylo (asexuality studies, menstruation studies, feminism)

https://przybyloela.wordpress.com/

ACE+ ARO Resources:

https://przybyloela.wordpress.com/acearo-resources/

ulysses c/onstance bougie (asexual and aromantic studies, composition studies, multimodal/neuro/queer rhetorics)

https://cpbwrites.wordpress.com/

[sarah] Cavar (cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, interdisciplinary studies, science & technology studies)

https://www.cavar.club/read

CJ DeLuzio Chasin (feminist applied social psychology, consent and unwanted sex, gender-based/domestic violence)

https://chasin.ca/cj/

Yo-Ling Chen (transgender, non-binary, and asexual/aromantic advocacy work in Taiwan)

https://www.yolingwrites.com/

Erica Chu (English teaching, transgender studies)

https://ericachu.wordpress.com/bio/

Joela Jacobs (Literary and cultural plant studies, German literature）

Vegetal, Animal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka (Not Published Yet)

Nicole Seymour (queer studies, environmental studies, humor studies)

Glitter

Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age

Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination

Cynthia Barounis (disability studies, queer theory, feminist theory, cultural studies)

Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood

Recent

Yellow Peril and Sinophone

Flair Donglai Shi

https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/4/2/article-p311_311.xml

Howard Chiang

Poetry

Jenny Xie

Shangyang Fang

Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online

Turning Archival The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies

Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today

Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology

Thick And Other Essays, Tressie Mcmillan Cottom

認同而不出櫃：中國同性戀者的生存困境

春光无限公园 - 武汉市老年男同志口述史

同志文学史：台湾的发明

Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China

Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University

Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma

Queer China Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism

Queering Translations, Translating the Queer Theory, Practice, Activism

Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire

Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China

The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan

Queerness in Pop Music: Aesthetic, Gender Norms, and Temporality

Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory

Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music

New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections

Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures

Decolonizing Queer Academia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UMUg5c3ydo

Travis S K Kong

FUNG, Anthony Y. H.

Altman Peng

Black Memes

A Poetics of the Undercommons

ALL INCOMPLETE

The Undercommons Fugitive Planning Black Study

Necropolitics

Toxicity

Weather - Christina Sharpe

https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/14-toxic-atmospheres/32058-2

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

On Cuddling Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace (2023), Phanuel Antwi

The Virus: Figure and Infrastructure (2020), Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire

Tidalectics

Kamau Brathwaite

The Arrivants

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262038096/tidalectics/

Queer Death Studies: Death, Dying and Mourning

Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning

https://queerdeathstudies.net/

Death’s Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human

https://journal.fi/rae/issue/view/8706

Decolonial

Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire

The White West – Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity

Attention

disordered attention: how we look at art and performance today

Yuk Hui

Post-Europe

Graduation

Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World

Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming

Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration

The Intimacies of Four Continents (2015), Lisa Lowe

Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World)

Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing

On Cuddling Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace (2023), Phanuel Antwi

Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!, Katrina Daschner

Against Ageism, A Queer Manifesto

Death by Landscape (2022), Elvia Wilk

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Jasbir K. Puar

White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (2016), Gloria Wekker

The RIght to Sex (2021), Amia Srinivasan

Queer Fire: Ecology, Combustion and Pyrosexual Desire

TCOET: Queer theory, pornography, science fiction

Intoxicated Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire (2023), Mel Y. Chen

Val Plumwood, “Tasteless: Towards a Food-Based Approach to Death,” Environmental Values 17, no. 3 (2008): 323–30.

Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!, Katrina Daschner

Sara Ahmed

Saidiya Hartman

https://www.timesmuseum.org/cn/journal/south-of-the-south/venus-in-two-acts

Poetry, Creative Writing

Kim Addomozio Dorianne Laux - The Poet's Companion

Craig Morgan Teicher - We Begin in Gladness

Matthew Zapruder - why poetry

Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

https://apa.si.edu/queer-check-ins/#/

Something from Kate

Uncreative Writing Managing Language in the Digital Age Kenneth Goldsmith

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing

How to Live Together, Roland Barthes

The Neutral, Roland Barthes

Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge

Madness, Rack, and Honey

https://carolinebergvall.com/

https://zocalopoets.com/2013/08/31/problematic-jay-bernard-on-poems-performance-problem-solving/

Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

Bright Fear, Mary Jean Chan

Diane Seuss

East Asian Diaspora Queer Trans Diability

Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto:

https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9652/8014

Yun Emily Wang

Jamie J. Zhao

Denise Tang

Hongwei Bao

Mel Y. Chen

何春蕤

姜学豪

黄道明

Aixia Wang (明清Trans)

Thelma Wang (STS)

Xiaogao Zhou (性别肯定医疗）

Shuaishuai Wang

Vox Jo Hsu

Karen Nakamura

Alice Wong

EK Tan (华语语系酷儿文学media）

Shuzhen Huang (跨国酷儿中国女性文学和传播学）

Howard Chiang（Trans)

https://xuzhuanxu.com/

https://xuzhuanxu.com/academic-translation

Josephine Ho

Eunjung Kim - Curative Violence

David Eng

港大 - Queer Asia

Hangping Xu

Alvin K. Wong

Petrus Liu

Hentyle Yapp

Shawna Tang

Han Tao - Queering Kinship

Hyaesin Yoon - Prosthetic Memories Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World

Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China

Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz

The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China

罔两问景 II：中间物

罔兩問景：酷兒閱讀攻略

The Impotence Epidemic Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China (2015), Everett Yuehong Zhang

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art

Poetry

C1

Mary Jean Chan

Sarah Howe

Kei Miller

Essay: The Feel of Thinking – Sarah Howe on lyric connections and incisions

Ezra Pound

John Ashbery

Frank O’Hara

Ted Berrigan

Denise Riley

Peter Streckfus

Robert Hass

Haiku

Sylvia Plath

C2

100 Queer Poems

回 - Emily Lee Luan (Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems)

Brenda Shaughnessy

Hieu Minh Nguyen

Mary Jean Chan

Margaret Rhee

Franny Choi

Sally Wen Mao

Victoria Chang

https://www.samuelace.com/text#/poems/

Arthur Sze

Grace Lee Boggs

Yuri Kochiyama

Hua Hsu

Cathy Park Hong

Paul Tran

Chen Chen

Rajiv Mohabir

Madiha Khan

George Abraham

Jan-Henry Gray

Natalie Diaz

Franny Choi

Justin Chin

Hieu Minh Nguyen

Kazim Ali

Ryka Aoki

Ocean Vuong

Mary Jean Chan

Cathy Park Hong

Hua Hsu

Grace Lee Boggs

Yuri Kochiyama

Wendy Xu

angie sijun lou

Brandon Shimoda

Li-Young Lee

Marilyn Chin

万夏

梁小曼

Sawako Nakayasu

Brandon Shimoda

C3

Jack Underwood

Terrance Hayes

Hybrid of Plants and of Ghosts by Jorie Graham

To 2040 by Jorie Graham

Asylum by Quan Barry

Loose Strife by Quan Barry Ilya Kaminsky

Jorie Graham

E.E. Cummings

Timothy Donnelly

Ben Lerner

Oli Hazzard

Andrea Brady

Richard Siken’s Crush

Taneda Santoka

廖伟棠

Lucille Clifton

Sonia Sanchez

Yusef Komunyakaa

Li-Young Lee

Marilyn Chin

万夏

梁小曼

Ocean Vuong

1. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, Matsuo Bashõ (Penguin Classics)

2. Leaves of Grass [1855], Walt Whitman (Oxford 150" Anniversary edition, 2005)

3. Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works, Arthur Rimbaud; tr. Wallace Fowlie (University of Chicago Press)

4. Spring and All, Williams Carlos Williams (Dew Directions, Anniversary Edition)

5. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, Aimé Césaire (Wesleyan University Press)

6. Generations, Lucille Clifton (New York Review of Books)

7. Midwinter's Day, Bernadette Mayer (New Directions)

8. Meet Me There, Samuel Ace/ Linda Smukler (Belladonna)

9. Cooling Time: an American poetry vigil, C.D. Wright (Copper Canyon)

One Big Self, C.D. Wright

10. Schizophrene, Bhanu Kapil (Nightboat Books)

11. Autobiography of Death, Kim Hyesoon; tr. Don Mee Choi (New Directions)

12. Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

13. The Lover, Marguerite Duras

14. The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys, Dao Strom

Short Poems

Andrea Zanzotto, Tomas Tranströmer, Octavio Paz,

Alejandra Pizarnik, Edmond Jabès, George Seferis

Asianess & Performance Art

Karen Shimakawa

José Esteban Muñoz

Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability

https://theharmonyshow.com/

Critical Race Studies

Ornamentalism - Anne Anlin Cheng

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

Animacies - Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012), Mel Y. Chen

Wild Things The Disorder of Desire (2020), Jack Halberstam

A View from the Bottom Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (2014), Tan Hoang Nguyen

Chinese Surplus Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (2018), Ari Larissa Heinrich

Racial Castration Managing Masculinity in Asian America (2001), David L. Eng

ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise

Intoxicated Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire (2023), Mel Y. Chen

Racist Love Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (2022), Leslie Bow

Artists

- Jota Mombaça

- Zanele Muholi

- Anna Daučíková

- Philipp Timischl

- Felipe Baeza

- Eimear Walshe

- Amanda Ziemele

- Samia Halaby

- Jules Gimbrone

- Floryan Varennes

- Didier William

- Catherine Opie

- Nayland Blake

- Cajsa von Zeipel

- Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales

- Charlotte Prodger

- Rory Hamovit

- Fafswag

- Sethembile Msezane

- Brendan Fernandes

- Tarek Lakhrissi

- Athena Torri

- Tom Burr

- Léuli Eshraghi

- Mercedes Azpilicueta

- Erin Jane Nelson

- Patrick Staff

- Jeffrey Gibson

- Charlotte Prodger

- Erin Jane Nelson

- Demian Dineyazhi and R.I.S.E

- Adham Faramawy

- Okwui Okpokwasili

- Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

- Philipp Timischl

- Jack O'Brien

- Young-jun Tak

- Jota Mombaça

- Charlotte Prodger

- Tom Burr

- Anicka Yi

- Zach Blas

- Carlos Motta

- Laure Prouvost

- Jota Mombaça

- Zanele Muholi

- Okwui Okpokwasili

- Alberta Whittle

- Demian Dineyazhi and R.I.S.E

- Sunpride Foundation

Feminisms

Amy Ireland and Xeno-feminism

Sadie Plant, 'On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations' in The Cybercultures Reader, eds. David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy (London: Routledge, 2000), 325–336.

Annihilation (film), Alex Garland dir., 2018.

Amy Ireland, ‘Alien Rhythms’, Litteraria Pragensia, vol. 29, no. 58, ‘Avant-Futures’, 2019: 58–71 (or online).

Cyber Feminism

Legacy Russell

Mindy Seu

Bogna Konior

https://cyberfeminismindex.com/

Sara Ahmed and Feminist Killjoy

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mes-tiza (San Francisco: Aunt Lune Books, 2nd edn, 1999)

Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997) and Cruel Optimism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011)

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990) and Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004)

Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016) and Abolition. Feminism. Now., with Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners and Beth E. Richie (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2021)

Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race (London: Bloomsbury, 2017)

Mona Eltahawy, Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (Dublin: Tramp Press, 2021)

Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1993)

Roxane Gay, The Bad Feminist (London: Corsair, 2014)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Chico, CA: AKA Press, 2020)

Ruby Hamad, White Tears, Browm Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (New York: Orion, 2020)

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (London: Serpent's Tail, 2009)

bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (London: Pluto Press, 2000) and Talking Back: Thinking Feminism, Thinking Black (Boston: South End Press, 1989)

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Tru-mansburg: The Crossing Press, 1984) and A Burst of Light: Essays (Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1988)

Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2020) and The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015)

Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminism Forgot (London: Bloomsbury, 2020)

Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power (London: Pluto Press, 2020)

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Min-neapolis: Greywood Press, 2014) and Just Us: An American Conversation (London: Allen Lane, 2020)

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color (New York: Seal Press, 2021)

Chelsea Watego, Another Day in the Colony (Brisbane, University of Queensland, 2021)

Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2021)

Ama Josephine Budge and Black Ecofeminism

Troubling Ecology: Wangechi Mutu, Octavia Butler, and Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism (32 pages) Chelsea M. Frazier in Critical Ethnic Studies Vol. 2, No. 1 (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)

What the Sands Remember (21 pages) Vanessa Agard Jones (GLQ, 2012)

Story/Podcast: The Ocean that Fades into Sky Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed Magazine, 2019)

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals Alexis Pauline Gumbs (A.K Press, 2020)

Black Atlantic Queer Atlantic (26 pages) Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (GLQ, 2008)

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, race and gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction Sami Schalk, (Duke University Press, 2018)

Podcast: Back to Earth - Queer Currents Serpentine Gallery (2020)

Introduction: Black Ecology Nathan Hare (The Black Scholar, 1970)

Let them Drown: the Violence of Othering in a Warming World Naomi Klein, (London Review of Books, 2016)

Black Feminist Ecological Thought: A Manifesto Chelsea M. Frazier (Atmos Magazine, 2020)

Aww Shucks: How do we Prepare for Climate Apocalypse [podcast episode, transcript available] adrienne maree brown & Autumn Brown, How to Survive the End of the World Podcast (2018)

Introduction: Black Global Ecologies J.T. Roane & Justin Hosbey, Environment and Society: Advances in Research (2022)

Elvia Wilk

Death by Landscape

Carmen Lael Hines

*Podcast: https://archive.ica.art/whats-on/what-can-post-cyber-feminism-do-reproductive-justice/*

Tiziana Terranova, ‘Free Labour: Free Labour, Producing Culture for the Digital Economy,’ Social Text 63: https://web.mit.edu/schock/www/docs/18.2terranova.pdf Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (London: Verso, 2020)

*Anastasia Siaoka and Elisabetta Biasin, ‘Bleeding Data: The Case of Fertility and Menstruation Tracking Apps,’ Internet Policy Review: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/bleeding-data-case-fertility-and-menstruation-tracking-apps*

McKenzie Wark

Critical (Auto) Theory, McKenzie Wark

Love and Money, Sex and Death, McKenzie Wark

Feminism, Queerness, Ecologies

https://www.queernature.org/

https://queerecology.org/

Isadora Neves Marques

• YWY, Searching for a Character between Future Worlds
• Vampires in Space

Paul B. Preciado

• Manifiesto contrasexual
• Testo yonqui
• Un apartamento en Urano.
• Dysphoria Mundi
• Preciado write articles for: https://www.liberation.fr/?redirected=1;
• Anal Politics

Donna Haraway

• notes

Elvia Wilk

• https://elviapw.com/
• https://lithub.com/toward-a-theory-of-the-new-weird/
• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/92/205298/the-word-made-fresh-mystical-encounter-and-the-new-weird-divine/
• https://granta.com/erotics-of-rot/

Antke Engel + Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz

• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/52/59935/the-elegantly-strong-triad-defamiliarizing-the-family-in-works-by-latoya-ruby-frazier-and-henrik-olesen/
• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/17/67418/desire-for-within-economic-transformation/
• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/28/68031/queer-temporalities-and-the-chronopolitics-of-transtemporal-drag/

• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/44/60173/toxic-assemblages-queer-socialities-a-dialogue-of-mutual-poisoning/
• http://www.queer-institut.de/en/

Mel Y. Chen + Candice Lin

• Animacies
• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/130/492951/death-to-death-life-by-cuts/
• https://gws.berkeley.edu/about/department-faculty/mel-y-chen/

• https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/17/2-3/265/34745/Toxic-Animacies-Inanimate-Affections?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Carlos Motta

• https://www.e-flux.com/journal/44/
• https://carlosmotta.com/
• https://vimeo.com/user3319523

Zairong Xiang

• https://www.xiangzairong.com/
• Yinyang, Transdualism
• https://timesmuseum.org/cn/journal/south-of-the-south/shanzhai-a-theory-of-the-south

Cyberfeminism

• Glitch Feminism
• Mindy Seu

Glossary

https://keywords.nyupress.org/

Posthuman glossary