Abstract This article engages in a close reading of the concept of “sticky rice”—an Asian man falling in love with another Asian man—in and across the films Yellow Fever (1998) and Front Cover (2015). Of particular interest here are the ways in which the old–new immigrant dynamics of sticky rice display impossible possibilities of queerness—that is, a temporal moment of counterhegemonic transgression. The three following themes organize this analysis: the mobility of the “old” immigrant subject; the denaturalizing of racialized gender; and queer kinship and relational structures. This article reevaluates the overall implications of the constructions of sticky rice that Yellow Fever and Front Cover offer.

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糯米政治：在黄热病和封面上和整个过程中不可能发生奇怪的事情

摘要 本文仔细阅读了电影《黄热病》（1998 年）和封面（2015 年）中的“糯米”概念——一个亚洲男人爱上另一个亚洲男人。这里特别有趣的是糯米的新旧移民动态显示出酷儿不可能的可能性的方式——即反霸权越界的时间时刻。以下三个主题组织了这一分析：“旧”移民主体的流动性；种族化性别的非自然化；和奇怪的亲属关系和关系结构。本文重新评估了 Yellow Fever 和 Front Cover 提供的糯米结构的整体影响。