A three-part essay about the ongoing interdisciplinary project Nursing These Wounds by Alyssa Manansala
March 17, 2022
As we consider Spring’s active potential and continue to experience the charged stress, chaos, and uncertainty that swirls around us in our daily lives, I would like to reflect on the small steps we can take to better care for ourselves and each other every day.
March 4, 2021
Filipinos make up 4% of nurses in the U.S. but sadly, account for a third of the nurses who have died from COVID nationwide. Host Ernabel Demillo takes a look at the impact the pandemic has had on the community; along with the history of Filipino nurses in the U.S. and why many found themselves working on the front lines.
December 3, 2020
When you think about trailblazing women in American nursing history, do Filipino nurses come to mind? Probably not. But they should.
KANLUNGAN is intended to be a memorial to the transnational people of Philippine ancestry who make up a huge sector of the global healthcare system.
May 2, 2020
A nurse at Toronto General Hospital describes what it's like to be on the emergency response intubation team for COVID-19 patients on a 12-hour shift.
After Filling a Nursing Shortage in the 1960s, Immigrant Caregivers Have Changed the Practice and the Politics of Health Care
The United States has a lot of Filipino nurses. How did that happen?
“It’s this kind of racial hierarchical attitude that influenced their [U.S.] decision that in order to uplift Filipinos, we need to educate them in American ways” —Catherine Ceniza Choy, professor and chair of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley
Ongoing
In honor of those who have worked or currently work in the nursing field, we are compiling a list of names and/or photos for the Nursing These Wounds multimedia performance in the fall.
June 18, 2022
Join us for an excerpt performance from the upcoming project Nursing These Wounds featuring dance artists Frances Teves Sedayao, Angel Velez, Jess DeFranco, Allegra Bautista, and Dre 'Poko' Devis.
October 15 - December 10, 2021
KULARTS is in the beginning stages of planning Nursing These Wounds and we would love your help! If you are a nurse, whatever the stories, we would love to hear them!
April 28, 2021
An online panel of interdisciplinary Pilipinx American artists engaged in the poetics and politics of care and migration. Featuring panelists Jason Magabo Perez, PhD, Jenifer K. Wofford, Alleluia Panis and moderated by Joyce Lu, PhD.
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March 24, 2021
An online panel on Pilipinx nurses as laborers of the healthcare industry. A discussion on its history, labor organizing, pandemic realities, nursing education, colonialism, racism, and health care inequities. Featuring panelists: Catherine Ceniza Choy, PhD; Claire Valderama-Wallace, PhD, MPH, RN; David Monkawa; Haniely 'Han Han' Pableo, RN; Ritchel Gazo, RN, MS and moderated by Jason Magabo Perez, PhD.
