| Description | Please join the University of Washington Bothell Labor Studies Colloquium and the Labor Stories During Pandemic Times class for a talk with Kale Bantigue Fajardo on “Trans-Waters/Trans-Archipelagic Solidarities, Approaches, and New Directions.” This talk, organized by Dr. Ching-In Chen, is taking place on Zoom in conjunction with BCULST 587/BISIA 410 S21 Labor Stories During Pandemic Times.
Pre-register to receive an e-mail with the Zoom details the day of the event. This talk and conversation is open to the public and will be recorded.
There are so many crises happening in local/global communities right now. From settler colonialism that dispossesses Native Nations to racism against Black people and other people of color to resource and healthcare disparities, the global housing crisis to toxic masculinities, femicides, disaster capitalism, and the climate emergency, we are besieged. Many of us want to "stand in solidarity" with diverse marginalized peoples and communities, but how? Many of us also have strong desires to share our power and mobilize our privilege to end injustice and oppression, but the path towards justice and equity is often unclear and non-linear. Sometimes our various working conditions in the academy make applied/embodied solidarity work challenging, daunting, or even impossible. In this talk, I will discuss some of my personal efforts and professional challenges to participate more fully in embodied and community-based solidarity efforts, including some of my own failures, which have given me new insights and strategies. I will also focus on my life as an immigrant queer and transPinoy scholar in the fields of Philippine-American-and-Filipinx Studies; queer and trans studies; Asian American Studies; and Critical Ethnic Studies over the last 15 years. My research focuses on maritime/seafaring and archipelagic experiences, issues, and perspectives. I understand this work as a form of "ancestral work," which has helped me to survive the colonial & neoliberal university. I'll share some of my current/emerging ideas and plans as I collaborate with queer and trans Boricua activists who are working to decolonize Borikén, the largest island of Puerto Rico. I'll speak about embodied solidarity that is feminist, queer and trans affirming, grassroots, and inter-generational and how learning about and using a healing justice approach has become important to my own healing and life's work and how these approaches help us to imagine and create different worlds.
Kale Bantigue Fajardo (he/him/his/siya) is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He completed his PhD in cultural anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and his undergraduate degree at Cornell. Fajardo is the author of "Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization" (University of Minnesota Press, 2011; reprinted by the University of the Philippines Press, 2013) and a Co-Editor of "Q and A: Voices from Queer Asian North America" (available July 2021, Temple University Press). Fajardo has been published in "GLQ", "The Transgender Studies Reader 2", "Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity", and "Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora" (among others). Fajardo serves on the Editorial Board of the Transgender Studies Quarterly and "The Critical Ethnic Studies Journal" and serves on the Advisory Board of Verge: Studies in Global Asia. He is also a Co-Editor of "The Island Studies Journal." Recently, Fajardo accepted the designation of Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies Research, a new non-profit organization in Chicago.
This talk is sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington and funded by the Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs’ Initiative for Marginalized Faculty.
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This event is part of Labor in Times of Crises, a year of online talks investigating and exploring the exacerbated, economic fault lines for working class lives in times of crisis. Each meeting will feature a talk by a visiting scholar and/or artist and discussion, including topics such as the carceral and unresponsive state, alternate and solidarity economies and community storytelling, and is organized by UWB Labor Colloquium faculty members Dr. Dan Berger, Dr. S. Charusheela, Dr. Joseph Ferrare and Dr. Kari Lerum, coordinated by Dr. Ching-In Chen with assistance from Graduate Assistant Simon Wolf.
For event questions and for UWB Labor Studies Colloquium questions, contact Dr. Ching-In Chen at chingin@uw.edu.
The organizer of this event is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu. If you have any access needs which you want the organizers to know about, please let us know. For further questions about disability accommodation, contact chingin@uw.edu. |
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