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Academic AuntiesCommunities of CareThe need for care - for radical care, for decolonial care, for accountable and reciprocal and emancipatory care - has never been more obvious. In a world where it is clear that institutions don’t care for us and that many of our elected political leaders just want to amass power and wealth, it is clear that it is our “communities of care” that hold us up. The importance of “communities of care” is something that my badass friend , Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, has stressed over the years, both in her academic work and in her activism. Val is an Asso...2025-04-3050 min
Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)A Transformative Look at the Lives of Filipina Care Workers and Their Mutual Aid PracticesMigrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and private homes throughout the United States. What draws them to such exploitative, low-wage work, and how do they care for themselves? In Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis (University of Washington Press, 2025), Valerie Francisco-Menchavez centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2021, illuminating their transnational experiences and their strategies and practices to help each other navigate the crumbling U.S. healthcare system.2025-02-241h 01
PPEGetting Dangerously Relevant with Dr. Tracy Lachica BuenavistaDr. 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...2021-06-191h 08PPEExploring Multiracial Activism with Dr. Michael CastañedaDr. 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 c...2021-05-2858 minPPEQueering the Global Filipina Body with Dr. Gina VelascoDr. 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).2021-05-2850 minPPETalking AAPI Hate from a Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism Analysis with Dr. Iyko DayOn this episode, Drs. Mike Viola and Valerie Francisco-Menchavez talk with Dr. Iyko Day 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).
You can find her book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/alien-capital2021-05-1244 min
From HereMothering as Political Work (part 2 of 2)Dawn continues her conversation with Valerie Francisco-Menchavez. This episode is part 2 of 2. Links for this episode: Valerie’s website https://valeriefm.comValerie’s book http://bit.ly/laborofcare2021-01-2622 minFrom HereMothering as Political Work (part 1 of 2)Dawn talks with Valerie Francisco-Menchavez about how communicating principles of equity and meeting children on their terms can be forms of everyday political action as a mother. This episode is part 1 of 2. Links for this episode: Valerie’s website https://valeriefm.comValerie’s book http://bit.ly/laborofcare2021-01-2633 minPPEInterrogating Policing Transnationally with Dr. Steven OsunaDr. 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...2021-01-0548 minPPEPerformance and Dance with Dr. Lorenzo PerrilloDr. 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.
Visit his website to buy the book: www.choreographingincolor.com2021-01-041h 00
Above the FogThe Intricacy of ExperienceValerie Francisco-Menchavez describes her journey from Filipino immigrant, undocumented student, to tenured Professor of Sociology at SF State. Francisco-Menchavez describes her migrant upbringing and how the sense of community she found there inspired her to work for care workers and share their stories. Find relief from election anxieties and listen to Valerie’s endearing story of hope and perseverance.2020-10-2925 min
PPEGaining Strength: Sarah RaymundoThis 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). She is currently working on a project entitled, “Making space for Indigenous knowledge, sustainabilities and futures” with years of field work with Lumad communities in Mindanao and Aetas in Pampanga and Zambales.2020-10-1900 minPPEPPEs Feat. Dr. Joy SalesThis 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.
Today’s episode is a conversation with Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Dr. Michael Viola highlighting the life and work of Dr. Joy Sales.2020-10-1300 min
PPEWhy does Filipinx Studies need to be "critical"?In this episode, Valerie Francisco-Menchavez talks with Dr. Mike Viola and Dr. Joy Sales about the need for Filipinx Studies to be critical.
Michael Joseph Viola is Associate Professor at Saint Marys College of California in the Justice, Community & Leadership (JCL) program and affiliate faculty in the Ethnic Studies program. He earned a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in urban schooling from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is currently working on a book project that examines Filipino/a American activism and solidarities from 1965 to present.
Joy Sales is...2020-07-3016 min
New Books in Southeast Asian StudiesValerie Francisco-Menchavez, “The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age” (U Illinois Press, 2018)Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez‘s new book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2018) traces how globalization, neoliberalism and new technology have reshaped migrant care work from the Philippines. The book is the result of five years of research interviewing migrant women and participating in their communities, as well as intermittent trips to the Philippines where Dr. Francisco-Menchavez spent time speaking with the families and extended families of migrant workers. Her book attempts to redefine notions of care and overseas employment that focus solely on the worker’s labor, and rather...2018-08-131h 01
New Books in Asian American StudiesValerie Francisco-Menchavez, “The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age” (U Illinois Press, 2018)Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez‘s new book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2018) traces how globalization, neoliberalism and new technology have reshaped migrant care work from the Philippines. The book is the result of five years of research interviewing migrant women and participating in their communities, as well as intermittent trips to the Philippines where Dr. Francisco-Menchavez spent time speaking with the families and extended families of migrant workers. Her book attempts to redefine notions of care and overseas employment that focus solely on the worker’s labor, and rather...2018-08-131h 01