Recent alonfilipinxjournal items

Setting the Scene: An Introduction to FilipiNEXT

Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Between July 13 and July 15, 2022, a group of about 60 Filipinx Canadian scholars, artists, organisers, and community members gathered at York University, located in Toronto,for a transdisciplinary workshop called FilipiNEXT. Participants came from across Canada and the United States, not only from major urban centres of Toronto and Vancouverbut also from smaller cities and towns such as Halifax (Nova Scotia), Hazelton (British Columbia [BC]), Winnipeg (Manitoba), and Calgary (Alberta) as well as Honolulu, Hawaii, and Ithaca, New York. The diverse demographic geographies that characterised the workshop were thus markedly different from previous Filipinx Canadian anthologies and gatherings, which tended towards participants from Southern Ontario and Greater Vancouver. As organisers, we wanted the workshop to mirror the geographical distribution of Filipinx academics in Canada. Along with traditional academic presentations, panels, and discussions, the gathering featured the...

X Marks the Spot: Filipinx Futurities

Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

X Marks the Spot: Filipinx Futurities

Review: Leeroy New’s Balete Bulate Bituka at The Bentway

Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Review: Leeroy New’s Balete Bulate Bituka at The Bentway

Front Matter

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Front Matter

Contributors

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Contributors

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Kinesthetic Interventions: Choreographies And Sounds Of The 2022 Philippine Elections

Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Philippine dance abounds with political intention, transforming thefamily, region, and nation. As a response to sociopolitical events, I considerdances in campaign events leading up to the 2022 Philippine elections. Whatcan dance tell us about the relationship between political leaders and thosewho are led? What historico-political insights come from the spontaneous andephemeral quality of election performances? Using movement observation, Isurvey “election season dances” performed and circulated via Twitter (now X)and YouTube. I suggest that these are appeals to affect and to bodies’ desiresto move collectively—important components of Philippine performativetraditions.

Review: Prison Dancer: The Musical—A Nod to the Filipino as a World-Class Talent

Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Review: Prison Dancer: The Musical—A Nod to the Filipino as a World-Class Talent

“Daytoy iti kaya’t iti, apukuk”: Refusing “sayang” in My Grandmother and I

Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article explores the tensions and possibilities of kinship betweena queer grandchild and his Filipinx grandmother during the AIDS epidemic inLani Montreal’s play, My Grandmother and I. While the AIDS crisis is oftenarticulated as a collective moment of loss and mourning in Canada, this articleargues that Dino and Lola refuse the logics of empire that deem his deathas “sayang” and instead, open space for transnational Indigenous solidarity,humor, and care. However, this article notes that these queer possibilities andfuturities are conditioned by the gendered dimensions of care work in thenuclear family.

Book Review: Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care by Ethel Tungohan

Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care by Ethel Tungohan

Imelda’s Dreaming: Applied Theatre in Mobilizing Political Discourse in Filipino Canadian Diasporic Communities

Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This essay charts the practice of applied theatre that traverses transnationality.It demonstrates methodological intervention in creating diasporicperformances by engaging open and emancipative dialogical encounters usingapplied theatre. The author deploys community- based theatre performanceto activate political discourse for/with/among diasporic community members.Using autoethnographic and affective inquiry, this article instigates theatreas a process of artistic improvisation that animates historical persona,found space, and other theatrical elements to provoke political discontent anddispleasure. The article raises several questions: How do we expand the performancepraxis of community theatre and performance making for FilipinoCanadian communities beyond exotic representation of culture of Philippineheritage? How can creativity and criticality be interwoven into performancemaking? How may applied theatre become a relevant performance praxis ofcommunity formation in a politically-divided...

Contributor's Page

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Contributor's Page

Front Matter

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Paganninawan

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Paganninawan

Book Review: Lolas’ House: Filipino Women Living with War

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Lolas’ House: Filipino Women Living with War

On Filipinx: Who Gets to Name Whom?

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On Filipinx: Who Gets to Name Whom?

Book Review: Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora

The Problem with Kapwa: Challenging Assumptions of Community, Sameness, and Unity in Filipina American Feminist Fieldwork

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article brings into question the ethics of conducting feminist research on and with Filipina American women as a Filipina American researcher. Through identifying and challenging the assumptions of kapwa—a “pillar” of Filipino cultural values that refers to viewing the “self-in-the-other”1 —I ask, how does one research communities they have deep and personal stakes in without reproducing the existing “fissures and hierarchies of power” existing in Filipinx American studies?2 Drawing from personal experiences of navigating research-participant conflict during fieldwork, I center this methodological question to interrogate the affective assumptions of sameness and unity amongst Fil-Ams in diaspora and to address what responsibilities we might have as Fil-Am feminist researchers to challenge such assumptions in our research and writing. In order to center women’s complex lived experiences and disrupt positivist, static representations of Filipinx American diaspora, kapwa...

Editor's Preface

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Editor's Preface

Leese Street Studio: Jenifer K Wofford

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Leese Street Studio: Jenifer K Wofford

An Interview with Marianne Chan: All Heathens

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An Interview with Marianne Chan: All Heathens

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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The Asian Baby Girl (ABG) Through a Filipina American Lens

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Asian Baby Girl (ABG) Through a Filipina American Lens

The Celine Archive: Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Filipina Lives

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Celine Archive: Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Filipina Lives

Editor's Preface