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Valerie Francisco-Menchavez

A series curated by the Critical Filipina/x/o Studies Collective on all things Philippines, Filipino America and beyond.

  1. 12/13/2023

    Tending to Filipina/x/o Canadian Studies

    This critical conversation, which took place in summer 2023, brings together three brilliant Filipina Canadian scholars, discussing the field of Filipina/x/o Canadian Studies! Song featured in this podcast episode: K!MMORTAL stop business as usual Conely de Leon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her current work focuses on the need to hold space for collective grief, collective care, and collective healing in migrant justice work. This work has led her to pursue further training and certification in trauma-informed care, and grief education. Recently, she co-founded the Pahinga Collective with Filipinx-identified graduate students, community organizers, and service providers representing migrant, queer, and feminist grassroots organizations in Tkaronto. The Pahinga Collective's hope is to contribute to more embodied understandings of rest as a form of anti-colonial, anti-capitalist resistance, and healing justice.  Dani Magsumbol is currently completing her doctoral degree at the Department of Politics at York University. She was awarded a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS-D award for her research, which examines affective relationships of citizen/ships & nation/alisms and the political economy of emotions, with a focus on the Filipino labour diaspora in Canada. Jann Tracee C. Ko Din (she/siya) is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Master of Arts program in Immigration and Settlement Studies. Her research focuses on collecting and collectivizing critical Filipinx resources and making them more accessible to those in andoutside of academia. Alongside Dr. Conely de Leon, Jhona Binos, Jessica Loyola, Joelle Navarro, Mycah Panjaitan, and Mauriene Tolentino, Jann co-founded the Pahinga Collective. Their work builds upon emergent collective care praxes and contributes to radical, anti-oppressive, and embodied understandings of rest as a form of resistance, refusal, and healing justice. Jann is rooted in her responsibilities as the kin to peoples from the Philippine Islands; as an immigrant and racialized settler on Turtle Island; as the bunso of her family; and as a descendant of her ancestors.

    46 min

  2. 12/08/2023

    Kuwentuhan as Method and Practice in Education Research

    CFSC celebrates a new publication from Dr. Rose Ann Gutierrez, Hazel Piñon and Trisha Valmocena. Gutierrez, R. A. E., Piñon, H., & Valmocena, M. T. (2023). Co-creating knowledge with undocumented Filipino students: Kuwentuhan as research method. New Directions for Higher Education, 2023(203), 77-92. http://doi.org/10.1002/he.20478 This conversation features the authors in conversation about their article and Kuwentuhan as a method of data collection. Their bios are below: Rose Ann Rico Eborda Gutierrez is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research is informed by a Pinay epistemology and positionality as a 1.5-generation immigrant, first-generation college student, and the only daughter of working-class Pilipino immigrants. Her critical analytical lens as a race scholar in higher education undergird her resolve to improve the conditions and opportunities of historically oppressed communities across the lifespan through educational research and practice. Her broader research agenda examines the relationship between knowledge, race, and social transformation in higher education contexts. She seeks to understand how racial inequities in education are reserved at the intersection of and in relationship with other systems of oppression, how students navigate these systems using embodied epistemologies, and what the role higher education institutions play in shaping student pathways and outcomes across P-20. She focuses on low-income, immigrant, immigrant-origin, undocumented, and first-generation Students of Color, and more specifically, Asian American and Pacific Islander students. Her interdisciplinary research about racial equity in higher education and intersectional justice is anchored by critical theories and critical qualitative methodologies.

    1h 2m

  3. 07/24/2023

    Kuwentuhan from the Archive

    This episode brings together Filipina/o/x trained in history talking through the importance of history, historians and the archive for a Critical Filipinx Studies.   Dr. Stef Lira received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Irvine in Latin American History where she completed her dissertation “Mercurial Masculinities: Indigenous and Chinese Laborers in the Early Modern Philippines.” Dr. Lira’s research focused on the impact of Spanish colonization on the Philippines, particularly the formation of racial and gendered ideologies within colonial labor sites. Her work traced the relationship between racial and gendered ideas and racist labor exploitation via local laws and punitive expulsion orders. She is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Long Beach City College. Outside of the college, Dr. Lira works with non-profits and grassroots Filipino organizations that work to protect the rights of working class Filipino communities in Southern California. She is the Education Officer for Gabriela South Bay, a Filipino women's organization that fights for the rights and welfare of Filipino women and families. Through her community work, she further grounds her pedagogical principles in her teachings: History is not made by great men, but by the efforts and struggles of everyday people.     Dr. Bernard James Remollino is a 1.5-generation undocumented Filipinx American from Manila. He earned his Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA in 2022 for his research on histories of Filipinx American popular culture, labor, and migration in the early 20th century. Dr. Remollino is an Associate Professor of Asian and Pacific American History at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, CA, where he mentors AAPI students as part of the college’s Empowering Positive Initiatives for Change (EPIC) program. He is also currently engaged in a book project examining transpacific interwar Filipinx popular cultures and their influence on U.S. politics, society, and empire from the 1910s to the 1950s. He is a Managing Editor and Senior Staff Writer for Mahalaya newspaper, a free monthly print news publication based in San Francisco sharing Filipinx American stories through solidarity journalism. Dr. Remollino lives in San Francisco and enjoys teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, getting tattooed, and riding motorcycles in his spare time.    Abby Gayle Reynoso Principe is a first-generation Filipina American born and raised in Vallejo, California. Abby received her AA-T in History from Napa Valley College and her BA in History from UC Davis with minors in Education and Asian American Studies. She is now an incoming PhD student in History at UC Riverside, with the desire to center her research around preserving kwentuhans (the art of storytelling), especially within the Filipino farm labor movement in the 1960s. Abby is a former lead intern for the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies from 2019 to early 2020. Her undergraduate research can be found under the Bulosan Center Working Paper series titled, “The World is Watching: the Meeting that Ended a Movement and Sparked a Revolution.”

 Since graduating from UC Davis, Principe is implementing kwentuhans, community, and her love for coffee to run Masaya Kapé, a coffee pop-up that celebrates these pillars instilled in her through the work of the Bulosan Center and Filipina/o/x Studies.

    1h 1m

  4. 06/15/2023

    20 Years of CFSC

    Today, you’ll hear a conversation between Dr. Amanda Solomon Amorao, Associate Professor at UC San Diego, Dr. Joy Sales at CSU Los Angeles and a founding member, Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez. They reflect on a CFSC praxis and the impact their involvement has made on their personal, political and academic careers. The audio is from a hybrid event we held with the UC Davis Bulosan Center in May of 2023 facilitated by Dr. Mike Viola, and myself, with the support of doctoral candidate Wayne Jopanda.

    1h 3m

  5. 04/18/2023

    On Living Life & Dissertating with Veronica Salcedo, Jackie Colting-Stol and Dr. Katherine Nasol

    This moving and frank conversation between three amazing scholars dives into how life informs research and dissertating while Filipina/x. Veronica B. Salcedo (she/siya) is a 5th year PhD candidate in Sociology at Georgia State University and researches racialized, gendered, and classed experiences of cisgender Pinays, or cis women of partial or full Filipino descent, who are romantically attracted to other women.  She utilizes critical race feminism and Peminism/Pinayism to recognize sexually nonconforming (SNC) Pinay cultural contributions as rich sources of knowledge. In her dissertation, Veronica incorporates this knowledge with semi-structured interview data to better understand how SNC Pinays come to recognize their authentic selves and navigate systems of power impacting their families of origin and choice. She hopes to build on this study through community based research with SNC Pinays in the Philippines. Veronica earned her master's in Sociology at GSU, where she was recognized as an outstanding graduate student instructor. You can find her at local dessert spots, especially if ube is somewhere on the menu.   Jackie Colting-Stol (she/her) a 4th year PhD Candidate in the School of Social Work at McGill University in Tiohtià:ke or Montreal, Quebec. Her dissertation uses Photovoice and Kuwentuhan participatory methods to explore the community-building, advocacy and solidarities of LGBTQ+ Filipino/a/x of the diaspora, especially the relationships between gender identity, sexuality and diasporic experiences. She has worked in a wide range of community and social service roles in immigration, community health and youth sectors, and has been involved in Filipino/a/x youth and migrant justice organizing in the past several years. She is also interested in funding and governance structures of non-profits and grassroots organizations in the area of more sustainable, transformative and decolonial approaches that tie to broader movement-building. In the past few years, she has been engaged with arts and cultural approaches to gathering, re-sharing and archiving stories of community, queerness and migration, alongside her community fam, kapwa and kin. Personally, she's a chosen fam Tita, a newbie kickboxer, and a cycling fan.   Katherine Nasol is a earned her doctorate degree at UC Davis in Cultural Studies, finishing up her dissertation in Spring of 2023. Her research focuses on theorizing care and care work as it relates to racial capitalism and critical immigration studies, especially through the lives of immigrant women and women of color who perform paid and unpaid care labor. Beyond her scholarly work, she is a community organizer and educator at heart, organizing around immigrant and housing justice for the past decade. She was the former Director of Policy and Community Engagement at the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies and currently, she is a Senior Research Coordinator at AAPI Women Lead where she leads national community-led research programs around how Asian and Pacific Islander communities experience & heal from racial and gender based violence. She is also an auntie to two babies, a partner, & an avid lover of all things boba and the outdoors!

    46 min

  6. 06/18/2021

    Getting Dangerously Relevant with Dr. Tracy Lachica Buenavista

    Dr. Tracy Lachica Buenavista a Professor of Asian American Studies at Cal State Northridge and a core faculty member in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. She also serves as the co-principal investigator for the CSUN DREAM Center, Asian American Studies Pathways Project, and Ethnic Studies Education Pathways Project; and is a member of the Project Rebound Community Advisory Committee. Professor Buenavista teaches courses on race and racism, immigration, and research methods, and in her research uses critical race theory to examine how education, immigration and carcerality shape the contemporary experiences of Filipino/a/x and other People of Color in the U.S. She is originally from the Bay Area, and loves to read, run, and jump rope.

    1h 8m

  7. 05/28/2021

    Exploring Multiracial Activism with Dr. Michael Castañeda

    Dr. Michael Castañeda is Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies in Fairhaven College at Western Washington University (WWU). He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently completing his book manuscript, No Separate Peace: Multiracial Struggles Against Racial Capitalism in the Pacific Northwest. This study examines the parallel and overlapping activist traditions and grassroots organizing practices of Filipino cannery workers in Alaska and Black construction workers in Seattle between the 1970s and the early 2000s. His teaching interests include critical/comparative ethnic studies, anti-racist social movements, histories of racial capitalism, Asian American/Native Pacific Studies, and the Black Radical Tradition.

    58 min

  8. 05/28/2021

    Queering the Global Filipina Body with Dr. Gina Velasco

    Dr. Gina Velasco is an Assistant Professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Gettysburg College. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Dr. Velasco's research and teaching explores how gender and queer sexuality inform notions of nation, diaspora, and transnational belonging in a contemporary context of globalization. She is the author of Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora (University of Illinois Press 2020).

    50 min
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A series curated by the Critical Filipina/x/o Studies Collective on all things Philippines, Filipino America and beyond.

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  • Creator
    Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
  • Show Website
    PPE