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Published
in Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory / Theorizing
the Filipina-American Experience, Editor Melinda L. de
Jesús. New York, NY: Routledge Press, 2005.
Discussing
two of her major works, “Cosmic Blood” and “Inverted
Minstrel,” Otalvaro-Hormillosa writes about her creative
process as well as the inspirations and motivations behind
her work. An earlier version of this essay also functions
as the performance text to her video/performance piece entitled
"Inverted Minstrel." Using hip hop within pop culture
as a primary example, the piece raises questions about sexism
and homophobia within "cultures of resistance" and
Asian, mixed race, or Latino/a assimilation practices as a
result of white supremacy and/or Afrocentrism.
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Published
in Social Justice, "Beyond National: Identities,
Social Problems and Movements," Editor Edward McCaughan.
San Francisco, CA: Social Justice Press; vol. 26, no. 3, Fall
1999.
This article explores possibilities for conceptualizing queer
diaspora as a critical process in cross-border organizing. It
addresses the citizenship(s) that are implicated in a form of
transnationalism which evokes gender and sexuality as crucial
modes of analysis. Otalvaro-Hormillosa explores Asian models
of diaspora and alternative models of diaspora that are informed
by gender and sexuality as much as they are by nationhood. Given
the asymmetrical power relations between people who belong to
the same diaspora, it becomes difficult, if not impossible to
use one starting point (i.e., race, class, gender, sexuality,
ethnicity, or nationhood) in writing on queer diaspora.
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Published
in Postcolonial and Queer Theories: Intersections
and Essays, Editor John C. Hawley. Westport CT: Greenwood
Press, 2001.
This article attempts to merge postcolonial theory with queer
theory by exploring texts by two influential theorists, Frantz
Fanon and Kobena Mercer. Otalvaro-Hormillosa questions the extent
to which Fanon's work is inclusive of gender while expressing
anxieties around Mercer's treatment of the late Robert Mapplethorpe's
contraversial photographs of nude black males.
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Published
in Antithesis Volume 11, "Sex 2000: Scenes, Strategies,
Slippages," Editors Daniela Brückner and PriyaVigneswaran.
Australia: University of Melbourne Press, 2000.
In this article, Otalvaro-Hormillosa uses the figure of the
"bakla," a Filipino transvestite, to challenge queer
hegemonic Western ideals and to problemtize nationalist identities.
She attempts to make connections between the seditious anticolonial
plays that were produced at the turn of the century in the Philippines
and contemporary Filipino and Filipino American queer gender
performance as cultural production.
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