Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies

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.