"Intoxicated thinks about and through molecular intimacies. We are all chemically restrained, either structurally or voluntarily, some more the former than the latter. We are all too slow (or intoxicated), too fast (or agitated), and never quite right. 'Take my hand, ' Mel Y. Chen invites the reader, 'and slump, stumble, shake, and tumble with me.' These alternate forms of cognition and movement promise new ways of knowing in the academy and beyond."–Cynthia Wu, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, Indiana University