Casey Mecija
Biographic Data
| ID | 87688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Casey Mecija |
| GIVEN NAMES | Casey |
| FAMILY NAME | Mecija |
| SIGNATURE | MECIJA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7417-4738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun: Childhood memory and sonic expression
A significant amount of queer and trans studies creates an opening into dialogue about temporality and its relation to the psycho-social durability of childhood experience. Relatedly, a central project for queer and trans childhood studies has been to show how the experience of subject-formation is constituted vis-a-vis our theories of what is appropriate for children, particularly in relation to desire. This article offers a theory of queer temp…
Queer Affect, Childhood, and Modalities of Sound in Hong Khaou’s Lilting
This article examines Hong Khaou’s film Lilting (2014) in an effort to discuss and describe the expressive modality of sound within the context of grief, diasporic parent and child relations, and Asian unassimilability. The film explores the aftermath of an untimely death: Junn, one of its central characters, is grieving the loss of her only child, while her deceased son’s partner is grieving the loss of his lover. Queer diasporic childhood and i…
Special Section Introduction – Experiments in Sound: The Sonic Dimensions of Childhood
Critical Race Studies Now: Teaching Anti-Asian Racism within and outside of Institutions
Affective belonging, family photography and the reparative practices of queer parenting
The desert’s no home for a rose”: Filipinx childhood and music as aesthetic experience
This article examines Diane Paragas’ film Yellow Rose (2019) for its capacity to offer important insights into the reparative utility of music for a child separated from a parent due to deportation. While the film depicts the brutality of contemporary U.S. migration policies, Yellow Rose is also a story about the role of aesthetic expression in childhood’s diasporic imaginaries. The film teaches us about the agentic potential of music as a mode o…
Skin as Ecstatic Surface: Listening to Queer Diaspora in the work of Patrick Cruz
Patrick Cruz is a Toronto-based painter whose artistic practice is informed by his experience of migrating from the Philippines to Canada. The Filipinx diaspora in Canada is large but often not given adequate attention in queer theories of nationhood. This article makes the argument that the textures or “skin” of Patrick Cruz’s canvases are an extension of his interior world and insist on the complex psychic, corporeal, and sonic contours of Fili…
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Skin as Ecstatic Surface: Listening to Queer Diaspora in the work of Patrick Cruz
Patrick Cruz is a Toronto-based painter whose artistic practice is informed by his experience of migrating from the Philippines to Canada. The Filipinx diaspora in Canada is large but often not given adequate attention in queer theories of nationhood. This article makes the argument that the textures or “skin” of Patrick Cruz’s canvases are an extension of his interior world and insist on the complex psychic, corporeal, and sonic contours of Fili…
The desert’s no home for a rose”: Filipinx childhood and music as aesthetic experience
This article examines Diane Paragas’ film Yellow Rose (2019) for its capacity to offer important insights into the reparative utility of music for a child separated from a parent due to deportation. While the film depicts the brutality of contemporary U.S. migration policies, Yellow Rose is also a story about the role of aesthetic expression in childhood’s diasporic imaginaries. The film teaches us about the agentic potential of music as a mode o…
Affective belonging, family photography and the reparative practices of queer parenting
Critical Race Studies Now: Teaching Anti-Asian Racism within and outside of Institutions
Queer Affect, Childhood, and Modalities of Sound in Hong Khaou’s Lilting
This article examines Hong Khaou’s film Lilting (2014) in an effort to discuss and describe the expressive modality of sound within the context of grief, diasporic parent and child relations, and Asian unassimilability. The film explores the aftermath of an untimely death: Junn, one of its central characters, is grieving the loss of her only child, while her deceased son’s partner is grieving the loss of his lover. Queer diasporic childhood and i…
Special Section Introduction – Experiments in Sound: The Sonic Dimensions of Childhood
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun: Childhood memory and sonic expression
A significant amount of queer and trans studies creates an opening into dialogue about temporality and its relation to the psycho-social durability of childhood experience. Relatedly, a central project for queer and trans childhood studies has been to show how the experience of subject-formation is constituted vis-a-vis our theories of what is appropriate for children, particularly in relation to desire. This article offers a theory of queer temp…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Queer theory (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)