Collectively, we thank the contributors and editors! It is a dream comes true to make a book of Asian Canadian studies that feature new, emerging, radical, and activist voices. Dr. Rose Ann Torres would like to thank her family for their love, patience, and understanding during the making of this book. This book is dedicated to her husband, Dr. Dionisio Nyaga and their her children, Waywaya, Samuel, and Simon. She also wants to thank her co-editors, all the contributors, and Brill publishing.
Ian Liujia Tian wants to thank friends, mentors, and comrades who have journeyed together. Jamie Magnusson, Shana Ye, and Jesook Song have been great sources of inspiration, critique, and feminist care. Rose and Coly, thank you for staying and shaping this book together! Vedanth Govi, Sabra Rezaei, Yasmine Abdelhadi, Aida Parnia, Riu Liu, Idil Abdillahi, Gary Kinsman, Desmond Cole, Beverly Bain, Ran Deng, Sherry Ostappvitch, Aytak Dibavar, Grayson Lee, Mengzhu Fu showed me how to practice and live our politics. I want to thank everyone from No Pride in Policing and Chinese Feminist Toronto, whom I will not name for confidentiality. My friends who helped make Toronto my home: Vinnie and Liam, all the love to you two. Lastly, I would not be able to have a sense of belonging if it is not for my partner Arash Ghiassi and his parents, Amir and Nastaran, who take me in as their family member, although my family cannot do the same. Arash, this book is for you as much as it is for me and the field of Asian Canadian Studies.
Coly Chau would like to thank Rose and Ian. Rose, thank you for your warmth, humour and for bringing Ian and I into this project. Ian, thank you for your brilliance and tenacity in keeping us on track. Thank you to the many political and community spaces that have given me a home grounded in the realities, as well as possibilities for solidarity and liberation. Thank you to those who love and care for me. Fiona, Tharmila, Hibah, Kimberly, Kathleen, Rain, and countless others who have shared times of joy and creativity. Kam Siu, Chit Man, Jessie, Leon, dad, sister, my entire family, and ancestors. Jeffrey, thank you for bearing the endless amounts of time I have been too busy working on “book stuff”, for the depths of support and endless laughs. Regent and Wendy, my whole entire heart, thank you for the unwavering love. Thank you to our contributors, to those who were “almost” contributors, and to all the scholars, activists, artists and communities that this collection is indebted to. Thank you Brill for allowing us to be in conversation with and within Asian Canadian Studies.