A Calgary-based documentary filmmaker, photographer, composer, activist, and community collaborator, jaqs gallos aquines’ work focuses on anti-racism.
Their first anthology Home is in the Body: 2SLGBTQIA+ Filipinx Femme, North of the 49th Parallel is published by Anak Publishing out of Winnipeg. This book features portraits and interviews with over 40 radical, brilliant FilipinX femme, mostly from Canada, some from the States, who identify as trans Pinay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, queer, questioning, asexual, aromantic, gender non-conforming, and some as allies of 2SLGBTQIA+.
Tune into this week’s Storytelling Podcast to hear about their journey, how the Cultural Instigators came to be, and the constant anti-racism work being done in Moh’kinsstis.
