reflections
My blog features semiregular reflections on enacting a Pinayist praxis in multiple aspects of my life -- from teaching to leading an academic program to decolonial and feminist parenting to trying to binge-watch the latest Netflix show.
Defining Antiracist and Liberatory Practices for the DOC Program
The Dimensions of Culture Program works to create the conditions for all in our learning community to ask challenging questions and seek their own answers.
Remembering Larry Itliong
A Filipinx American History Month interview with KPBS Midday Edition in honor of Larry Itliong Day.
Filipinx Feminism and Activism Revisited and Expanded in Closer to Liberation
Talking about the anthology’s contribution with the San Diego Union Tribune.
What is antiracist and gender expansive language?
Words are powerful. They don’t just describe the world; words can shape the world.
Why liberatory ethnic studies in schools matter now more than ever
In this solicited op-ed piece for the San Diego Union Tribune, I consider the urgency of critical ethnic studies curriculum in California public schools, especially given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our communities of color.
Carlos Bulosan and a collective outline for Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies
This article draws upon Bulosan's writing and praxis to conceptualize an outline for Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies that can offer grounded analysis and academic critique.
The Manong’s ‘Songs of Love:’ Gendered & Sexualized Dimensions of Carlos Bulosan’s Literature & Labor Activism
This article takes the 2013 passage of California Assembly Bill 123, which mandates instruction on the Filipino contribution to the state’s farm workers movement in public education curriculum, as an occasion to analyze the gendered and sexualized dimensions of Carlos Bulosan’s literature and labor activism.
How do I use AI as a thinking tool?
We live in a ChatGPT world. Some argue that adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) and large-language models have emerged to make writing classes like the ones I teach at UCSD’s Dimensions of Culture Program (DOC) obsolete. Or have they?
How does DOC do grades?
Grades as symbols place all of the responsibility for a student’s performance entirely on the individual student; grades as symbols obscure all the other factors that play into how well any student does in school.