Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries

Product Description

Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries is the first edited volume of its kind, featuring the works of leading scholars, artists, and activists who reflect on the contributions of queer Filipinos to Canadian culture and society.

Addressing a wide range of issues beyond the academy, the authors present a rich and under-studied archive of personal reflections, in-depth interviews, creative works, and scholarly essays. Their trandsdisciplinary approach highlights the need for queer, transgressive, and utopian practices that render visible histories of migration, empire building, settler colonialism, and globalization.

Timely, urgent, and fascinating, Diasporic Intimacies offers an accessible entry point for readers who seek to pursue critically engaged community work, arts education, curatorial practice, and socially inflected research on sexuality, gender, and race in this ever-changing world.


Review

"Diasporic Intimacies is, without question, an ambitious and important collection that draws together new archives that illuminate the cultural productions, performances, histories, and experiences of queer Filipinos/as in Canada. This formally innovative anthology provides rich material for students and scholars of queer studies, Asian North American studies, performances studies, and diaspora studies." —Denise Cruz, author of Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina

“This volume offers not just works to be read but triggers to enable and encourage radical thoughts, alternative behavior or attitudes, and progressive ways of being in the world.” —Martin F. Manalansan IV, from the afterword

"Diasporic Intimacies stands as an example of disruptive scholarship within diasporic Filipino contemporary art and visual culture studies and Filipino diaspora studies writ large. It pushes readers to consider the work of the arts in diasporic Filipino communities outside the US-Philippine binary, outside a cis-heteronormative 'family' framework, and outside a gay male Filipino or bakla-centric lens . . . Diasporic Intimacies shatters liberal, multiculturalist fantasies of Canada by exposing its rootedness and commitment to the lived Filipinx Canadian queer experiences. The work also pivots to non-academic readers through its accessibility. The collection should remind scholars and curators alike of the ethical parameters of their work. That is to say, respect for the communities that sustain their intellectual and creative projects should always inform the output of their work." —Jan Christian Bernabe, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas

About the Author

ROBERT DIAZ is an assistant professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. His scholarship, teaching, and community work center on the experiences of queer, racialized, and diasporic communities in the Philippines, the United States, and Canada.

MARISSA LARGO is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. In 2013, she was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

FRITZ PINO is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is a lead researcher of the Toronto-based Filipino Elderly Well-being Project and serves as a program coordinator for seniors at the Silayan Filipino Community Centre.


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Diasporic Intimacies


Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries
By Robert Diaz, Marissa Largo, Fritz Pino Northwestern University PressCopyright © 2018 Northwestern University Press
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8101-3652-6


Contents
List of Illustrations,
Acknowledgments,
Introduction: The "Stuff" of Queer Horizons and Other Utopic Pu