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Minerva Navasca’s Bio:

Minerva Navasca is a Filipina-Canadian filmmaker exploring narratives of cultural dysphoria and girlhood with intimate specificity. Stating, “I want to make films about subjects that make me uncomfortable,” Minerva delves into perspectives steeped in anxiety and internalized shame, using the medium to interrogate the socio-political roots of these beliefs. She is a 2022 & 2024 TIFF Next Wave Alumni, and the winner of the 2024 BFI Future Film Festival Best Documentary Award. She collaborated with NBC Universal and Canada Walk of Fame as part of the Future Storytellers Program.

A conversation with Minerva @minervanavasca, a conversation about being Filipino-Canadian, being a female POC filmmaker and the filmmaking industry, and creating film and art that explores and digs into one’s experiences that are often uncomfortable and hard to process.

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Website
https://www.minervanavasca.com/
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/minervanavasca?igsh=YjN2dnA4MXdxb2Mw
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Desync’s Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/desync.shortfilm?igsh=aHd4OHhtc2tlMG5l
@desync.shortfilm


List of Available Screenings for Minerva’s work:

October 15-19 2024 - Alpavirama International Youth Film Festival, Ahmedabad, India

October 17 2024 - Bushwick Film Festival, New York City NY

October 19 - Hamilton Film Festival, Hamilton ON

October 22 & 26 2024 - Forest City Film Festival, London ON

October 26 2024 - Micheaux Film Festival, Los Angeles CA

October 26 2024 - Durham Region International Film Festival, Oshawa ON

October 28 2024 - SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Savannah GA

October 31 to November 8 - Singapore Youth Film Festival, Singapore

November 6-10 2024 - Yellowknife Film Festival, Yellowknife NWT

November 8 2024 - Ottawa Canadian Film Festival, Ottawa ON

November 9 2024 - FilAm Creative Film Festival, Los Angeles CA

November 7-10 2024 - Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver BC (exact date TBC)

November 7-16 2024 - San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego CA (exact date TBC)

November 8-11 2024 - FilAm Creative Film Festival, Los Angeles CA (exact date TBC)

November 13-17 2024 - Mighty Niagara Film Festival, St Catharines ON (exact date TBC)

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SEASON FIVE FINALE!

Our guest today, Johnathan Gibbs known as Jonahsahn and formerly blasianFMA.

He’s 100% Black 100% Filipino and according to him the OG Blasian of the internet. He has been creating content on the internet since 2008 and is one with many hats. He’s a content creator, activist, gamer, chorister and Gayasian.

In our conversation, he shared his Blasian upbringing, being an activist for Black and Asian issues, Blasian representation, and Black and Asian unity. We also touched on whot’s the final boss in America (listen to the end to find out what that is).

Thank you for tuning in and supporting this podcast. We would not be four years deep in this podcast game without all of your support. We hope to continue to bring you the conversations of the Asian diaspora that y’all want to tune into. We will take a short break and be back later to continue spotlighting the Asian diaspora and making sure our voices get heard.

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Today's episode features Aydin Quach(he/they).
MA student in History @UBC and Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity @USC

We talked about:

1. What does being "CHINESE" mean in the Diaspora?
2. Aydin's upbringing as a Chinese Canadian growing up/living in Vancouver, Canada
3. Harmonizing Chinese/Asian identity with Queerness
4. Asian Joy and our right as immigrants/descendants of immigrants to have that without guilt

His Bio

I was raised in what is now known as Vancouver on the traditional, ancestral, and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, səlilwətaɬ, and Skwxwú7mesh First Nations. I am an uninvited settler on their land. I come from a family of immigrants to Canada who themselves were immigrants to Southeast Asia, having lived in Southeast Asia for generations. My mother’s family is part of the Stateless Chinese population in Brunei Darussalam and my father is Chinese-Vietnamese from Vietnam. Drawing from my own identity as part of the Sinophone diaspora, I became interested in understanding how those who have complex migration histories understand their own identity. This is how I first got into the discipline of History and considered it as a prism through which I could develop and magnify my research questions. Questions around what is “Chinese” across the Sinophone diaspora are of particular interest to me. This extends of course as well to other intersections of my identity as well such as my position as a Queer Asian individual in academia.

Research Areas

- Sex, Gender, the Body, and Sexuality
- Modern East and Southeast Asian History
- Migration Studies
-Queer Theory
- Sensory Studies
- Musicology
- Music History
- Cultural Studies
My research primarily pertains to the research of culture, sex, gender, and sexuality both in a historical lens as well as a contemporary sense. I am interested in how culture develops and how culture shapes our perceptions of self. I bounce back and forth in my research between the historical past and the present as part of an ongoing effort to research how identity and culture are intertwined. Below you will find a briefing about my current projects.

CURRENT PROJECTS

• Hardening Men: Masculinity, Nationalism, and Leadership in Post Colonial Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia)
  • I am interested in how manhood and masculinity are constructed through military service. Moreover, how is masculinity co-opted into being an issue of national security for newly created countries in Southeast Asia?

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