Now revised and updated, the McGuire Programme is an internationally recognised method that not only improves speech, but offers the enjoyment, not the dread, of speaking. a series of breathing and diaphragm exercises that breaks the self-perpetuating cycle of stuttering. Uniquely, the McGuire Programme combines physical techniques (breathing and relaxation) with mental strategies for dealing with the fear of stammering, as well as how to develop an assertive attitude to the problem. Vivian L. Huang retheorizes the stereotype of inscrutability as a queer aesthetic strategy within contemporary Asian American cultural life.