Toward a Filipinx Method: Queer of Color Critique and QTGNC Mobilization in Mark Aguhar's Poetics

Abstract

ABSTRACT:This article examines Mark Aguhar's Tumblr posts, which facilitate acts of queer recognition, gesture, and futurity through Aguhar's visual art and poetry, in addition to offering quotidian ruminations on oppression, survival, and care. Aguhar engages in a "Filipinx method," a deployment of art, theory, and resistance executed by queer Filipinx artists and writers across the demarcations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Through an exploration of the critical connections between queer and disability justice and queer digital expression, Aguhar generates multidimensional methods for a transformative change that recognizes the vulnerability and viability of queer people of color.