Christine Vicera

Christine Vicera (she/hers) is a Hong Kong-raised Filipino researcher, educator and multidisciplinary artist. At the heart of her research and praxis lies a broader concern toward the relationship between Filipino migration and marginality within global racial capital.

Creative practice and community building are integral to her praxis. Sisig and Puchero (2021), her first documentary short was featured at the 2021 Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival. It follows the story of Julie Mangrobang, a former Filipino migrant domestic worker turned restaurant owner in HK, and explores how Filipino migrants contest and reshape their visibility in a multicultural, post-colonial HK, and enact their agency to create spaces for cultural and economic participation. In 2021, she co-founded be/longing an arts-for-education lab that harnesses the transformative power of storytelling and the creative arts to to co-create tools for anti-racist critical public pedagogy. Her research, poetry, and personal essays have been published in Kritika Kultura, Voice & Verse, Spill Stories, Asia Art Archive “Like A Fever,” and Verge: Studies in Global Asias.