I am an educator, writer, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. My academic work centres on questions of care, Filipino/a/x affective labour, transmasculinity, tomboyness, and everyday performance. My research operates at the intersections of queer studies, trans studies, Filipinx diasporic studies, performance studies, and studies of care ethics and is grounded in my experiences as a queer, trans, tomboy, and diasporic Filipinx care worker.

My doctoral research project, tentatively titled “Tomboy Ethics: Performances of Care Across the Filipinx Labour Diaspora,” examines the ways in which tomboys negotiate gendered spaces across the Filipinx labour diaspora and engage in alternative modes of care work. My doctoral research is generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship.

I earned an MA in Performing and Media Arts from Cornell University, an MA in Women and Gender Studies and from the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, as well as an Honours Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Toronto. During my time at Cornell, I served as a Global Racial Justice Fellow at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies where I co-organized the symposium, “Decolonial Love: Learning to Redream Dangerously Again.”

You can find my writing in Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing and you can access my latest publication, “‘But on Sunday, They are Free’: Tomboy Domesticity and Home Time in Sunday Beauty Queen,” in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.