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Asian American art often explores, questions, and interrogates identity. Scholars have questioned the use of the term Asian American art or Asian American art history for its limitations in categorization, instead focusing on diaspora, which refers to transnational movement and displaced populations. [31]
Asian American history is the history of ethnic and racial groups in the United States who are of Asian descent. The term " Asian American " was an idea invented in the 1960s to bring together Chinese , Japanese , and Filipino Americans for strategic political purposes.
Filipino American LGBT Studies is a field of studies that focus on the issues met by people at the intersection of Filipino American and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities. Like queer studies , Filipino American LGBT Studies spans multiple disciplines, such as history , psychology , sociology , and political science .
This is a timeline of notable events in the history of non-heterosexual conforming people of Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry, who may identify as LGBTIQGNC (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, third gender, gender nonconforming), men who have sex with men, or related culturally-specific identities. This timeline includes ...
Filipina American Women's Network conference in New York (2005) Babaylan conference held at St. Scholastica's College (2006) - celebration of the Feminist movement in the Philippines; International Babaylan Conference at Sonoma State University (2010) Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post 1965 Filipino Americans (2001)
The Philippines was the highest ranking Asian country in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report, a study measuring gender equality, which was released today. Compared to all ...
As a result of the 1968 strike, a College of Ethnic Studies (the only U.S. university academic department of its kind at the time) was established at San Francisco State University with American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Latino/a Studies as its four units, and a new Department of Ethnic Studies was ...
Gender-crossing practices go back to the history of pre-colonial communities in the Philippines. The babaylans are typically female spiritual leaders, priests, or shamans in native communities, whose position can also be taken by males who crossed genders, and were called asog, among many names. [9]