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Patience and Fortitude
Did you know those lions in front of 42nd St library are called Patience and Fortitude? In grad school, I’d walk the few blocks from The Graduate Center and set myself on those steps to eat lunch and read my seminar’s assigned readings. I never knew they had names. Until so many years later, someone…
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Labor of Care NYC launch
It is my great honor and pleasure to come back to CUNY, The Graduate Center to launch The Labor of Care in New York City! When I first came to the Graduate Center to begin my doctoral program, I remember going to a lecture in the Skylight Room and knowing that one day, I’ll come back…
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Sukli: Children Repaying Migrant Mothers
During my fieldwork, the children of migrant mothers (both adults and young people) used this Filipino word, “sukli”, to talk about how they understood the ways they gave back to their mothers abroad. As someone who left the Philippines as a 3rd grader, my Tagalog is sort of stunted there. I’d always known sukli has…
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Queenila next week!
Next week, I get to go back to New York City to do an East coast book launch at my alma mater, The Graduate Center, hosted by the Center for the Study of Women in Society. And I’m so honored to have Premilla Nadasen, author of Household Workers Unite and professor of History at Barnard College,…
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Mama Scholars and Scholar Support System
These first few stops on the National #LaborofCare book tour were really exciting! First time in Colorado, first time building with Filipino professors out here and first time for Cy too! 2 big lessons I’ve learned from this leg of the tour is that (1) mama scholars ain’t no joke, and (2) supportive scholar friends…
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Talk at U of Colorado Boulder
In two days, my second stop on the #LaborofCare book tour is at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I’ve never been there before but I’m excited for my first trip to Boulder and being in conversation with the academic community there!
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A revolutionary care filled the room
My Mama approached me, next in line for those who wanted a signed copy of The Labor of Care. Her hands were full. She had bought four copies of the book. With a grin on her face, she said, “I’m giving some to my friends.” My biggest fan. Little did she know, I was her biggest…
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Tomorrow at SJSU
Tomorrow, I’ll be in the South Bay talking about my book in Professor Tanya Bakhru’s class on the “Politics of Mothering and Reproduction” at San Jose State in Dudley Moorehead 162. Come by if you’re on campus!
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Launched!
The co-book launching of The Labor of Care and A Nation on the Line was amazing! The Bayanihan Community Center in the heart of SOMA Pilipinas was buzzing with chatter amongst scholars from the nearby Association for Asian American Studies conference, children playing, community and family members, activists and organizers from the Filipino community in the Bay Area, in…
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Book in hand!
Today, I got to hold my book in my hands. Finally, tangible. The stories of migrant workers, mothers and their families in between these pages are so important. They have so many lessons to tell us about surviving neoliberal conditions of separation—more importantly, lessons about organizing and thriving. I feel so proud (and scared) to…
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