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, organized by Dr. Ching-In Chen, is taking place on Zoom in conjunction with BCULST587/BISIA 410: Labor Stories During Pandemic Times. The talk is free and open to the public, with pre-registration. Zoom links will be e-mailed the day of the talk. Visit, http://bit.ly/UWBLaborFajardo.

These talks are part of University of Washington Bothell’s Labor Studies Colloquium, a year of online talks investigating and exploring the exacerbated, economic fault lines for working class lives in times of crisis. Each meeting, held on Zoom, 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 will be 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 and sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington. For further information on these talks and to register, please visit http://bit.ly/UWBLaborStudies

The colloquium will culminate in Spring 2021, with a Creative Writing workshop (BISIA 410: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop), focusing on Labor Stories During Pandemic Times. The class will organize a community storytelling project which will culminate in a chapbook which showcases these voices.

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.