Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries
edited by Robert Diaz, Marissa Largo and Fritz Pino
Northwestern University Press, 2018 Cloth: 978-0-8101-3652-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-3653-3 | Paper: 978-0-8101-3651-9 Library of Congress Classification F1035.F48D53 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.760899921071
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction The “Stuff” of Queer Horizons and Other Utopic Pursuits
Robert Diaz
Section 1: Historical Flashpoints
Artwork The 5 Stages of Decolonization
Jo SiMalaya Alcampo
Chapter 1 In Search of Filipino/a Queer Histories in Canada
Roland Sintos Coloma
Chapter 2 Towards queer(er) futures: Proliferating the ‘sexual’ in Filipinx-Canadian sexuality studies
John Paul Catungal
Chapter 3 Visualizing the Intimate in Filipino/a Lives Exhibition essay by Marissa Largo and Robert Diaz
Chapter 4 Feminist Collectivities, Tibo Ethics, and the Call of the Babaylan
Melany Liwanag Aguila, PJ Alafriz, Lisa Valencia-Svenssion, and Jo Simalaya Alcampo
Chapter 5 Life Reflection
JB Ramos
Chapter 6 An oral history interview with Featured Artist: Jo Simalaya Alcampo
Jo Simalaya Alcampo
Section 2: Diasporic Art as Queer Intervention
Artwork Indigenous Imagination 1 (queen)
Kim Villagante
Chapter 7 Reimagining Filipina Visibility through Black Mirror: The Queer Decolonial Diasporic Aesthetic of Marigold Santos
Marissa Largo
Chapter 8 Goodbye Ohbijou: Notes on Music, Queer Affect, and the Impossibilities of Satisfying Multicultural Ideals in Canada
Casey Mecija
Chapter 9 Sonic Collectivities and the Musical Routes of Pantayo
Christine Balmes, Eirene Cloma, Michelle Cruz, Kat Estacio, Katrina Estacio, Marianne Grace Rellin, Joanna Delos Reyes
Chapter 10 Queer Choreography and the Routes of Diasporic Filipinoness
Jodinand Aguillon
Chapter 11 Between Earth and Sky: The boundless multidisciplinary practice of Kim Villagante
Kim Villagante
Section 3: Transnational Imaginaries and the Ruse of Belonging
Artwork Queerious Hybrid
Julius Poncelet Manapul
Chapter 12 Older Filipino Gay Men in Canada: Bridging Queer Theory and Gerontology in Filipinx-Canadian Studies
Fitz Luther Pino
Chapter 13 Colonial, Settler Colonial Tactics, and Filipino-Canadian Heteronormativities at Play on the Basketball Court
May Farrales
Chapter 14 Dragging Filipinx
Patrick Salvani
Chapter 15 Taking Up Space is Revolutionary
Sean Kua
Chapter 16 Queer Diasporas on the Front Lines
Benjamin Bongolan and Constantine Cabarios
Chapter 17 Queertopia is a country that does not exist: The Art of Julius Poncelet Manapul
Julius Poncelet Manapul Section 4: Mourning, Militancy, and Queer Critique Artwork Jet Lag
Marissa Largo
Chapter 18 Dancing Queer To Be Intimate With The Roman Catholic Church, Or Remembering Augusto Diangson
Patrick Alcedo
Chapter 19 Militarism, Violence and Critiques of the Neoliberal State
Radyo Migrante’s Trans Day of Remembrance
Out Now! US troops, Out Now!
Two Stories of Murder
Lui Queano (Translated by Nonilon Queano)
Past Gains and New Beginnings: LGBTQs in the Filipino Canadian
Left Movement
The Congress of Progressive Filipinos
Chapter 20 Education, Militancy, and Performance: Filipino Community Organizing and HIV/AIDS
My Grandmother and I: A Play by Lani Montreal
Transgressing Borders, Generations, and Taboos: Lani Montreal reflects on My Grandmother and I
Afterword Queer Elsewhere: Fabulosity and Futurity on the Horizon
Martin Manalansan Acknowledgements
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Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries
edited by Robert Diaz, Marissa Largo and Fritz Pino
Northwestern University Press, 2018 Cloth: 978-0-8101-3652-6 eISBN: 978-0-8101-3653-3 Paper: 978-0-8101-3651-9
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction The “Stuff” of Queer Horizons and Other Utopic Pursuits
Robert Diaz
Section 1: Historical Flashpoints
Artwork The 5 Stages of Decolonization
Jo SiMalaya Alcampo
Chapter 1 In Search of Filipino/a Queer Histories in Canada
Roland Sintos Coloma
Chapter 2 Towards queer(er) futures: Proliferating the ‘sexual’ in Filipinx-Canadian sexuality studies
John Paul Catungal
Chapter 3 Visualizing the Intimate in Filipino/a Lives Exhibition essay by Marissa Largo and Robert Diaz
Chapter 4 Feminist Collectivities, Tibo Ethics, and the Call of the Babaylan
Melany Liwanag Aguila, PJ Alafriz, Lisa Valencia-Svenssion, and Jo Simalaya Alcampo
Chapter 5 Life Reflection
JB Ramos
Chapter 6 An oral history interview with Featured Artist: Jo Simalaya Alcampo
Jo Simalaya Alcampo
Section 2: Diasporic Art as Queer Intervention
Artwork Indigenous Imagination 1 (queen)
Kim Villagante
Chapter 7 Reimagining Filipina Visibility through Black Mirror: The Queer Decolonial Diasporic Aesthetic of Marigold Santos
Marissa Largo
Chapter 8 Goodbye Ohbijou: Notes on Music, Queer Affect, and the Impossibilities of Satisfying Multicultural Ideals in Canada
Casey Mecija
Chapter 9 Sonic Collectivities and the Musical Routes of Pantayo
Christine Balmes, Eirene Cloma, Michelle Cruz, Kat Estacio, Katrina Estacio, Marianne Grace Rellin, Joanna Delos Reyes
Chapter 10 Queer Choreography and the Routes of Diasporic Filipinoness
Jodinand Aguillon
Chapter 11 Between Earth and Sky: The boundless multidisciplinary practice of Kim Villagante
Kim Villagante
Section 3: Transnational Imaginaries and the Ruse of Belonging
Artwork Queerious Hybrid
Julius Poncelet Manapul
Chapter 12 Older Filipino Gay Men in Canada: Bridging Queer Theory and Gerontology in Filipinx-Canadian Studies
Fitz Luther Pino
Chapter 13 Colonial, Settler Colonial Tactics, and Filipino-Canadian Heteronormativities at Play on the Basketball Court
May Farrales
Chapter 14 Dragging Filipinx
Patrick Salvani
Chapter 15 Taking Up Space is Revolutionary
Sean Kua
Chapter 16 Queer Diasporas on the Front Lines
Benjamin Bongolan and Constantine Cabarios
Chapter 17 Queertopia is a country that does not exist: The Art of Julius Poncelet Manapul
Julius Poncelet Manapul Section 4: Mourning, Militancy, and Queer Critique Artwork Jet Lag
Marissa Largo
Chapter 18 Dancing Queer To Be Intimate With The Roman Catholic Church, Or Remembering Augusto Diangson
Patrick Alcedo
Chapter 19 Militarism, Violence and Critiques of the Neoliberal State
Radyo Migrante’s Trans Day of Remembrance
Out Now! US troops, Out Now!
Two Stories of Murder
Lui Queano (Translated by Nonilon Queano)
Past Gains and New Beginnings: LGBTQs in the Filipino Canadian
Left Movement
The Congress of Progressive Filipinos
Chapter 20 Education, Militancy, and Performance: Filipino Community Organizing and HIV/AIDS
My Grandmother and I: A Play by Lani Montreal
Transgressing Borders, Generations, and Taboos: Lani Montreal reflects on My Grandmother and I
Afterword Queer Elsewhere: Fabulosity and Futurity on the Horizon
Martin Manalansan Acknowledgements
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