Tending to Filipino Canadian Studies

This critical conversation brings together three brilliant Filipina Canadian scholars, discussing the field of Filipina/x/o Canadian Studies! My favorite part of this conversation is how all the participants hold such bravery and vulnerability in talking about how we should relate to one another in academia.

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. 

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.