This critical conversation brings together three brilliant Filipina Canadian scholars, discussing the field of Filipina/x/o Canadian Studies!

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

Dr. Stef Lira received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Irvine in Latin American History. The bulk of Dr. Lira’s present work focuses on her pedagogy and community education. She is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Long Beach City College.

Abby Gayle Reynoso Principe is a first-generation Filipina American born and raised in Vallejo, California. 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.

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.

Amanda Solomon Amorao serves as an Associate Teaching Professor and the Director of the Dimensions of Culture Program at the University of California San Diego's Thurgood Marshall College.

Joy Sales is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (she/her) is a Professor Emerita of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis and is one of only a small handful of Filipinas who have achieved the rank of Full Professor at a major research university in the entire country.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Dr. Iyko Day is an Associate Professor of English and Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College and Faculty Member in the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program. Her research focuses on Asian North American literature and visual culture; settler colonialism and racial capitalism; Marxist theory and queer of color critique. She is the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism (Duke, 2016).

Dr. Steven Osuna is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. As a professor, activist-intellectual, and mentor, Dr. Osuna teaches courses on immigration, critical criminology, social theory and his research are centered in a preferential option for the poor, social justice, and critical thinking. He is also a member of grassroots organizations that seek to make social change in the world to improve the conditions that many face such as the Human Rights Alliance for Child Refugees and Families (HRA), International Migrants Alliance (IMA) and the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP).

Dr. Lorenzo Perillo is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Hawai at Manoa. His new book, Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism (Oxford University Press 2020) features interviews from over 80 key artists and organizers and utilizes bilingual ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement to examine Black cultural expression in relation to Filipino racialization.

This episode features the Philippine sociologist, activist, writer and scholar, Professor Sarah Raymundo, a full-time faculty at the University of the Philippines-Center for International Studies (UP-CIS Diliman). She is a member of the National Executive Board of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and currently the External Vice Chair of the Philppine Anti-Imperialist Studies (PAIS).

This is a podcast series curated by Critical Filipina/x/o Studies Collective to highlight and uplift action and scholarship that is anti-imperialist, committed to movement-building about the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. This podcast is named PPE in honor of all the Filipinos/as working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic all over the world, and their continuing fight to work safely and with dignity.

This is a podcast series curated by Critical Filipina/x/o Studies Collective to highlight and uplift action and scholarship that is anti-imperialist, committed to movement-building about the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. This podcast is named PPE in honor of all the Filipinos/as working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic all over the world, and their continuing fight to work safely and with dignity.