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.

Public writing, Carlos Bulosan, Ethnic studies, Critical Filipinx Studies Renee Young Public writing, Carlos Bulosan, Ethnic studies, Critical Filipinx Studies Renee Young

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.

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