Please join us for this online panel & discussion that centers queer & feminist methods for approaching Philippine martial law history: the wayward informality and queer urbanism of Manila during a time of martial law (Lopez), the revolutionary intimacies of the anti-Marcos movement in the U.S (Hanna), and other invitations to think through and beyond the fiction-making and un-making of dictatorships (Burns). This event takes place in conjunction with Prof. Christine Bacareza Balance’s “Fictions of Dictatorship” seminar this semester.

Lmsp Burns is Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Department at UCLA. Burns is the author of PURO ARTE: FILIPINOS ON THE STAGES OF EMPIRE and co-editor, with Christine Bacareza Balance, of CALIFORNIA DREAMING: MOVEMENT & PLACE IN THE ASIAN AMERICAN IMAGINARY.

Karen Buenavista Hanna is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies at Connecticut College. She has published over a dozen academic and popular essays including in Amerasia, Hypatia, and Hyphen Magazine. Her experiences as a NYC public school teacher and community organizer prior to her doctoral studies inspire and shape her pedagogy and research. She is currently writing her first book manuscript, REVOLUTIONARY INTIMACIES: THE MAKINGS OF A NEW FILIPINO AMERICAN LEFT.

Ferdinand Lopez (she, her) is a PhD student in the Women and Gender Studies of the University of Toronto. Ferdie was a tenured Associate Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Santo Tomas. In 2015, she was listed by 8List Philippines as one of the 10 Iconic Teachers Students Loved in College. Her dissertation project focuses on “Seismic Flirtations: The Bakla and the Mapping of Queer Archipelagic Desires in the Pacific Ring of Fire.”