André-Anne Côté
Born in Nanchang, China, André-Anne Côté/陈新华 is a Sino-Quebec adoptee living in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. As an anthropologist, she is interested in autoethnography as a source of literary creation. Her master's thesis, completed at Peking University, focused on the return of adoptees to their native countries. Her texts have been published in Moebius magazine, Le Devoir, Huffington Post, NüVoices and Inkstone. André-Anne lectures on anti-Asian racism and the rights of international adoptees. She co-founded the collective Soft Gong, by and for adoptees from China in Quebec, is involved with the Coalition Asiatique pour une Relève Émancipatrice (CARÉ), and appears in the Bottin artistique asiatique du Québec at the invitation of artist and curator Claudia Chan Tak.
Anthologie d’auteur.ices d’origine asiatique au Québec Arts et culture
The Coalition asiatique pour une relève émancipatrice is calling for submissions for an anthology of authors of Asian origin in Quebec, to be edited by André-Anne Côté and Julie Tran 🎉 Faced with the resurgence of anti-Asian racism, we'd like to bear witness to our experience, both individual and collective, during the pandemic. If the crisis has engendered disasters on a planetary scale, it will at least have enabled us to express our indignation and rally around a common identity: Asiatitude*. It's the injunctions of performance and perfection that overwhelm us. It's the silence that paralyzes us, the embodiment of the model minority. We have been silent long enough in the face of the horror of our bodies being blasphemed, mediatized and raped to excess. Raconte-moi l'histoire is an invitation to come out of our silence, to reveal all those things that freeze us from childhood to today. It's a journey that unfolds in words, moving back and forth between ourselves and others, to rewrite a story that concerns us. It's ours.
About this Project
Communities Served
My project will involve and/or impact the following communities:
- LGBTQ2+ Community members
- Racial or visible minorities
- Vulnerable individuals (e.g. those experiencing addiction, abuse)
- Multi-barrier populations
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
When it comes to community impact projects, the UN has created 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These are the Sustainable Development Goals associated with my project.
- SDG 5: Gender equality
- SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth
- SDG 3: Good health and Well-being
- SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy
- SDG 10: Reduced inequalities
- SDG 16: Peace, justice, and strong institutions
How the project works
Text editing Linguistic revision Preface writing Pitch to publishing houses If rejected, self-publishing and independent launch
Project Impact
Our writing not only archives our resistance and celebrates our condition, but also transcends myth. When our yellow body is transformed into peril, it no longer belongs to us. It is through repetition that we can now name this violence, imagine the response and project ourselves into a future that goes beyond this historical conjuncture. We'd therefore like to reflect on the concept of Asiatitude together. What does it evoke for you? Can we nourish our collective imagination? How can we rethink the Asian diasporas in Quebec? How have social movements during the pandemic (#blacklivesmatter, #justiceforjoy, #metoo, #iamnotavirus) influenced our identities? Finally, our aim is not so much to identify an essence, but rather the ways in which these resistances are deployed in everyday life.
Project Mission
Alors que les États-uniens d’origine asiatique ont publié divers ouvrages collectifs, qu’en est-il ici, dans un contexte minoritaire francophone? Comment expliquer l’absence de relève asiatique dans le paysage littéraire? L’anthologie Asiatitude désire ainsi mettre en lumière les voix émergentes et plurielles d’auteur.ices québécois.es d’origine asiatique.
Project Team
Étudiant.es à la maîtrise et doctorat en littérature, travail social et développement international
- Julie Tran
- Remy Chhem
- Angeline Guo
- Coralie Plante
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