Bridging the Fragmented Identities and Experiences of Immigrant and Queer Women of Color: A Queer Analysis of the Film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Abstract
My thesis titled "Bridging the Fragmented Identities and Experiences of Immigrant and Queer Women of Color: A Queer Analysis of the Film Everything Everywhere All at Once" was completed during Fall of 2022 in the senior capstone course for the English department, ENG 190 with Professor Weisong Gao. This paper seeks to establish the way this film bridges the intersectional stories of immigrant and queer communities by exploring the experiences of both groups as queer. The research and writing was conducted all in one semester individually and with the guidance of Professor Gao. Due to the popularity of the film, film critiques and online articles on the main text were readily accessible. However, the academic discussion of the film shown in this thesis is arguably one of the earliest considering the lack of academic writing on such a new film. Still, the film's radical exploration of Asian American, queer, and immigrant communities has been widely recognized in the media; therefore this thesis sets out to include the film as an important exploration of these areas of study in the academic sphere.