Examining Gender and Resistance with Filipina Hong Kongers through Cellphilm Production and Collaborative Writing

Hong Kong’s non-white ethnic minorities – including its Filipina residents – are often described in media and policy discourses as a unified group. Speaking back to this misconception, in this article we describe the gendered experiences of two 23-year old Filipinas born and raised in Hong Kong through what Claudia Mitchell has described as girl method – research with girls for girls and about girls’ concerns – in our case producing visual depictions of girlhood in cellphilms (cellphone + filmmaking + intention) and collaborative writing. We write together as co-researchers to extend participatory approaches to research dissemination as we make sense of the changing political situation in Hong Kong in the years since our first collaboration in 2015. Through a polyvocal – many voices writing together – reflection on a cellphilm production project on identities and belonging four years later, we argue that Filipina identity in Hong Kong is complex and multifarious, and we aim to disseminate knowledge by and for Filipina Hong Kongers that speaks back to the erasure of their experiences within larger discourses about Filipinas, gender, and activism in Hong Kong

Aesthetics · Art · Citizen journalism · Ethnic group · Filmmaking · Girl · Identity (music · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Visual arts · White (mutation · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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