PPE

Dr. 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.com

Music for this podcast was provided by Alan Dizon.

This 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.

Music for this podcast was provided by Alan Dizon.

This 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 biography and work of Dr. Joy Sales.

Music for this podcast was provided by Alan Dizon.

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 an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at Cal State LA. Her research interests include Filipino/a/x studies, Asian American studies, ethnic studies, U.S. in the world, U.S. empire, social movements, and gender studies. She is working on a book manuscript, "We Are Revolution: Empire, Diaspora, and Transpacific Filipino Activism." I focus on Filipino American activists and their involvement in homeland politics after the watershed 1965 Immigration Act and during an era of military dictatorship in the Philippines under Ferdinand E. Marcos (1965-1986).

Episode Art Cover by Favianna Rodriguez