Bennette Baguisa

PhD Student

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Areas of Interest

Transnational feminism
Postcolonial Studies
The Philippines and its Diaspora
Affect Theory
Ritual as methodology

Biography

Bennette Baguisa is a PhD student in the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research investigates how vernacular forms of gender and sexuality can offer a critique of and alternative to dominant discourse on gendered and racialized forms of labor, care, and relationality. Specifically, her work focuses on Filipino-Canadian queer diasporic cultural production, performance, and radical imagination.

Program: PhD 2023

Education

MA, Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto

BA, Honours, Gender and Women’s Studies, York University

BA, Political Science, Ateneo de Manila University

Dissertation

Supervisor: Robert Diaz

Selected Works

Baguisa, B. (2023). Disobedient Performance in Han Han’s “Babae Ka”, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 7(3), 293-313. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-20221263