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How does the idea of memory differ in Vuong's story than in Chris' arguments? How are they similar?

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What do you make of Trevor's internalized homophobia?

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pg. 75-78
pg. 108
pg. 159
pg. 186
pg. 240

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Is the hate from his mother homophobia? Fear?

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Is the hate from his mother homophobia? Fear?

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"You have to be a real boy and strong" -pg. 26
"I gave birth to a healthy, normal boy" -pg. 131

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"A comma superimposed by a period the mouth so naturally makes. Isn't that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?"

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"I had tainted him with my faggotry, the filthiness of our act exposed by my body's failure to contain itself" -pg. 203

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What are the similarities?
*Hint: Think about Somerville's article over queer's definition*

"Because grief, at its worst, is unreal. And it calls for a surreal
response" -pg. 226

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What does this passage say about American "queerness" compared to other cultures?

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Pgs. 24-25

How does America's toxic hypermasculinity define queerness?

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is some space for you to add anything you find important that doesn't directly relate to your topic

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"The heifer, the farm, the boy, the wreck, the war--had I made it all up, in a dream, only to wake up with it fused to my skin?"

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don't draw attention to yourself. You're already Vietnamese.

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The trope of commas reminded me of the significance of the semicolon project, where people would get semicolons tattooed as an anti-suicide notion.

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I'm thinking of the scar on Trevor--it's described as a comma.

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I'm thinking of the scar on Trevor--it's described as a comma.

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Metaphor about addiction. Brought up right when the narrator discusses the neighborhood wanting stop signs, though the woman who gets the stop signs installed has sons who die of heroin overdoses.

The Buffalo, according to Jacob, is significant within Vietnamese culture

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p226: "It's through the drag performers' explosive outfits and gestures...that this relief...through extravagant spectacle, is manifest. As much as they are useful, paid, and empowered as a vital service in a society where to be queer is still a sin, the drag queens are, for as long as the dead lie in the open, an othered performance. Their presumed, reliable fraudulence is what makes their presence, to the mourners, necessary."

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In The Color Purple and in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, both protagonists are abused. This abuse is both physical, mental, and emotional. Is there a connection between these texts, and the way that their "otherness"  impacted their lives and perhaps played into their abuse?

How does this also tie into the heteronormative trope that queer folks are queer because of their abuse?

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Rose is such a complicated character. She does so much good for Little Dog but then also hurts him (the basement scene). How do we understand and think about the way PTSD informs their relationship?

One of the amazing things of this novel is how it seeks to produce understanding after so many traumatic events.

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Both discuss touch - I cannot find the exact passages but in memory: touching is an act that can dissolve the boundaries between bodies? what does touch do?