V Jo Hsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5595495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | V Jo Hsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | V Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsu |
| SIGNATURE | HSU V J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8524-6098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The imperative of lived experience for ME/CFS and long Covid research
Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions
This article conveys how taking patient knowledge seriously can improve patient experience and further medical science. In clinical contexts related to infection-associated chronic conditions and other complex chronic illnesses, patient knowledge is often undervalued, even when clinicians have limited training in diagnosing and treating a particular condition. We argue that there are opportunities for clinicians and researchers to collaborate wit…
The narrative trap of migrant belonging
This brief essay considers how US xenophobia and racism function through autopoetic rhetoric. It examines the self-regenerating story that designates Asian American migrants as always-foreign, forever-threats, and never enough. While the analysis centers the experiences of second-generation Asian Americans, it has broader applications for examining how controlling narratives infiltrate law and policy, and it argues for the centrality of rhetorica…
Dispatches from a body on fire
While contemporary fascisms operate in ways both obvious and 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 t…
Framing the activists
For the past five decades, patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) have struggled against the stereotype that their symptoms are “all in their heads.” With ME now appearing in roughly half the cases of long COVID (LC), some researchers and journalists have recycled old mythologies about ME. This essay applies frame analysis to scientific and mainstream discourse surrounding ME and LC to ask how dominant scripts about disability, gender, and …
Crip Letters
Composed in a series of letters, this essay explores the interdependent knowledge and survival work of crip communities. The authors discuss their experiences of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS) in a practice of Akemi Nishida’s “bed activism,” which challenges ableist demands for productivity from spaces of rest and care. Hsu and Nish ask what we lose—in intellectual and cultural growth and in actual lives—when academic spaces continue to…
Unsafe Words
Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power…
The Impossible Trans Body
Notes1 See also Cedillo (Citation2020) and Hill (Citationforthcoming).2 This is the same year that the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, catalyzing bans or severe restrictions on abortion across the country. Because white supremacy depends on the propagation of white families, people of color and queer people pose threats to its continuation
V. Jo Hsu and Jennifer Lin LeMesurier in Conversation
In this edition of Rhetoric in Review, V. Jo Hsu and Jennifer Lin LeMesurier discuss their recent books, Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics (Ohio State University Press, 2022) and Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption (Ohio State University Press, 2023). Placing their work in conversation and considering how they mutually speak to rhetorical studies, the authors address several quest…
T4t Love-Politics
This essay considers Monica Roberts's long-standing blog, TransGriot, as a model of T4t love-politics. Drawing from Jennifer Nash's work on Black feminism, the author argues that TransGriot centers interpersonal and intra- and intercommunal relationships as driving forces of social and systemic change. This approach to t4t enabled Roberts to center trans voices, trans needs, and trans thriving while also demanding accountability from all communit…
Containment and Interdependence
Research Article| October 01 2020 Containment and Interdependence: Epidemic Logics in Asian American Racialization V. Jo Hsu V. Jo Hsu V. Jo Hsu is an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Their work focuses on the interrelations of narrative and power. They are guided by the trans, crip, and queer of color scholars and activists who have enabled their survival, and they strive to furt…
Voting rights, anti-intersectionality, and citizenship as containment
This piece argues that dominant histories of U.S. suffrage have misremembered the history of voting rights legislation as one of steady social progress and multicultural inclusion. By contrast, I consider landmark legislation affecting voting rights such as the 19th Amendment and the Dawes and Magnuson Acts as strategies of containment that that expand but also continue to police the racialized gender norms of U.S. citizenship. These legal reform…
(Trans)forming #MeToo
Drawing from critical trans theory’s methods of systemic analysis, this article examines how #MeToo’s carceral politics have reinforced the exclusion and ongoing abuse of those most vulnerable to gender and state violence. The stories of many people of color, queer, transgender, poor, and/or disabled folks remain inarticulable within a retributive system that requires survivors to narrate themselves as “perfect victims.” Adopting critical trans t…
(Trans)forming #MeToo
Drawing from critical trans theory’s methods of systemic analysis, this article examines how #MeToo’s carceral politics have reinforced the exclusion and ongoing abuse of those most vulnerable to gender and state violence. The stories of many people of color, queer, transgender, poor, and/or disabled folks remain inarticulable within a retributive system that requires survivors to narrate themselves as “perfect victims.” Adopting critical trans t…
Dispatches from a body on fire
While contemporary fascisms operate in ways both obvious and 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 t…
The Impossible Trans Body
Notes1 See also Cedillo (Citation2020) and Hill (Citationforthcoming).2 This is the same year that the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, catalyzing bans or severe restrictions on abortion across the country. Because white supremacy depends on the propagation of white families, people of color and queer people pose threats to its continuation
Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions
This article conveys how taking patient knowledge seriously can improve patient experience and further medical science. In clinical contexts related to infection-associated chronic conditions and other complex chronic illnesses, patient knowledge is often undervalued, even when clinicians have limited training in diagnosing and treating a particular condition. We argue that there are opportunities for clinicians and researchers to collaborate wit…
Framing the activists
For the past five decades, patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) have struggled against the stereotype that their symptoms are “all in their heads.” With ME now appearing in roughly half the cases of long COVID (LC), some researchers and journalists have recycled old mythologies about ME. This essay applies frame analysis to scientific and mainstream discourse surrounding ME and LC to ask how dominant scripts about disability, gender, and …
(Trans)forming #MeToo
Drawing from critical trans theory’s methods of systemic analysis, this article examines how #MeToo’s carceral politics have reinforced the exclusion and ongoing abuse of those most vulnerable to gender and state violence. The stories of many people of color, queer, transgender, poor, and/or disabled folks remain inarticulable within a retributive system that requires survivors to narrate themselves as “perfect victims.” Adopting critical trans t…
Containment and Interdependence
Research Article| October 01 2020 Containment and Interdependence: Epidemic Logics in Asian American Racialization V. Jo Hsu V. Jo Hsu V. Jo Hsu is an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Their work focuses on the interrelations of narrative and power. They are guided by the trans, crip, and queer of color scholars and activists who have enabled their survival, and they strive to furt…
Voting rights, anti-intersectionality, and citizenship as containment
This piece argues that dominant histories of U.S. suffrage have misremembered the history of voting rights legislation as one of steady social progress and multicultural inclusion. By contrast, I consider landmark legislation affecting voting rights such as the 19th Amendment and the Dawes and Magnuson Acts as strategies of containment that that expand but also continue to police the racialized gender norms of U.S. citizenship. These legal reform…
V. Jo Hsu and Jennifer Lin LeMesurier in Conversation
In this edition of Rhetoric in Review, V. Jo Hsu and Jennifer Lin LeMesurier discuss their recent books, Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics (Ohio State University Press, 2022) and Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption (Ohio State University Press, 2023). Placing their work in conversation and considering how they mutually speak to rhetorical studies, the authors address several quest…
T4t Love-Politics
This essay considers Monica Roberts's long-standing blog, TransGriot, as a model of T4t love-politics. Drawing from Jennifer Nash's work on Black feminism, the author argues that TransGriot centers interpersonal and intra- and intercommunal relationships as driving forces of social and systemic change. This approach to t4t enabled Roberts to center trans voices, trans needs, and trans thriving while also demanding accountability from all communit…
Crip Letters
Composed in a series of letters, this essay explores the interdependent knowledge and survival work of crip communities. The authors discuss their experiences of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS) in a practice of Akemi Nishida’s “bed activism,” which challenges ableist demands for productivity from spaces of rest and care. Hsu and Nish ask what we lose—in intellectual and cultural growth and in actual lives—when academic spaces continue to…
Unsafe Words
Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power…
The Impossible Trans Body
Notes1 See also Cedillo (Citation2020) and Hill (Citationforthcoming).2 This is the same year that the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, catalyzing bans or severe restrictions on abortion across the country. Because white supremacy depends on the propagation of white families, people of color and queer people pose threats to its continuation
The imperative of lived experience for ME/CFS and long Covid research
Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions
This article conveys how taking patient knowledge seriously can improve patient experience and further medical science. In clinical contexts related to infection-associated chronic conditions and other complex chronic illnesses, patient knowledge is often undervalued, even when clinicians have limited training in diagnosing and treating a particular condition. We argue that there are opportunities for clinicians and researchers to collaborate wit…
The narrative trap of migrant belonging
This brief essay considers how US xenophobia and racism function through autopoetic rhetoric. It examines the self-regenerating story that designates Asian American migrants as always-foreign, forever-threats, and never enough. While the analysis centers the experiences of second-generation Asian Americans, it has broader applications for examining how controlling narratives infiltrate law and policy, and it argues for the centrality of rhetorica…
Dispatches from a body on fire
While contemporary fascisms operate in ways both obvious and 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 t…
Framing the activists
For the past five decades, patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) have struggled against the stereotype that their symptoms are “all in their heads.” With ME now appearing in roughly half the cases of long COVID (LC), some researchers and journalists have recycled old mythologies about ME. This essay applies frame analysis to scientific and mainstream discourse surrounding ME and LC to ask how dominant scripts about disability, gender, and …
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