For years, Manalansan has been interested in exploring the queer dimensions of dwelling structured by physical, affective, and social processes. Deploying his framing of “queer as mess” and basing it on years of ethnographic fieldwork on undocumented queers of color, Manalansan argues for a capacious yet recalcitrant notion of queer caring and togetherness that goes beyond scripted ideals of solidarity, empathy and concern.