Gina Velasco
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gina Velasco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gina |
| FAMILY NAME | Velasco |
| SIGNATURE | VELASCO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keene State College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“That’s My Tomboy”
This essay explores the circulation of the figure of the tomboy within queer Filipinx diasporic culture. In particular, I examine “That’s My Tomboy!” a segment of the popular Philippine variety show, It’s Showtime , an ABS-CBN show filmed in front of a live audience in Quezon City, Philippines. Circulated globally on the international cable channel, The Filipino Channel (TFC), It’s Showtime , stars the hugely popular bakla performer, Vice Ganda. …
Queering the Global Filipina Body
Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism an…
Mimi Thi Nguyen. The Gift of Freedom
The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages critiques the bio- and necropolitical functioning of the liberal discourse of freedom as a form of subjection and subjectivization. Nguyen adeptly describes how the 'gift of freedom' constitutes gendered and racialized subjects of liberal empire, while simultaneously subjecting them to the murderous violence of war in the name of freedom. Nguyen's compelling discussion of the discursive c…
"Performing the Filipina "mail-order bride
The 2005 video/performance art piece, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride, by the Filipina American performance-art ensemble, the Mail Order Brides, examines the role of affective labor in constituting gay marriage as a form of US homonational belonging. In a contemporary context of capitalist globalization, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride critiques the subjugation of the third-world woman worker within a queer neoliberal logic, highlighting th…
"Performing the Filipina "mail-order bride
The 2005 video/performance art piece, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride, by the Filipina American performance-art ensemble, the Mail Order Brides, examines the role of affective labor in constituting gay marriage as a form of US homonational belonging. In a contemporary context of capitalist globalization, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride critiques the subjugation of the third-world woman worker within a queer neoliberal logic, highlighting th…
Mimi Thi Nguyen. The Gift of Freedom
The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages critiques the bio- and necropolitical functioning of the liberal discourse of freedom as a form of subjection and subjectivization. Nguyen adeptly describes how the 'gift of freedom' constitutes gendered and racialized subjects of liberal empire, while simultaneously subjecting them to the murderous violence of war in the name of freedom. Nguyen's compelling discussion of the discursive c…
"Performing the Filipina "mail-order bride
The 2005 video/performance art piece, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride, by the Filipina American performance-art ensemble, the Mail Order Brides, examines the role of affective labor in constituting gay marriage as a form of US homonational belonging. In a contemporary context of capitalist globalization, Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride critiques the subjugation of the third-world woman worker within a queer neoliberal logic, highlighting th…
“That’s My Tomboy”
This essay explores the circulation of the figure of the tomboy within queer Filipinx diasporic culture. In particular, I examine “That’s My Tomboy!” a segment of the popular Philippine variety show, It’s Showtime , an ABS-CBN show filmed in front of a live audience in Quezon City, Philippines. Circulated globally on the international cable channel, The Filipino Channel (TFC), It’s Showtime , stars the hugely popular bakla performer, Vice Ganda. …
Queering the Global Filipina Body
Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism an…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Diaspora (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Lesbian (2 works)