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This project was created as part of the Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities 2021 during the month of August 2021 by Mayumi Sophiya Alino, student of Political Science and Cinema and Media Studies with a minor in Informatics. All the views expressed here are mine and reflect my opinion at the time of this writing.

Acknowledgements

The author would like to acknowledge the Summer Institute of Arts and Humanities sponsored by the Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Office of Research, the Undergraduate Research Program, and the research funding from the Mary Gates Endowment for Students.

Thank you to Professors Maria Elena Garcia, Tony Lucero, Adam Warren, and Lydia Marie Heberling for your overwhelming support and continuous encouragement and allowing me the chance to pursue these interests.

Thank you to my fellow 2021 SIAH participants Em, Ethan, Daisy, Madeline, Jasmine, Tess, Fotima, Katie, Marlowe, Wendi, Rachel, Jordan, Torin, Rubi, Sophia, Guadalupe, Zipei, Elizabeth, and Isobel

Special thanks to the librarians Dylan Burns, Verletta Kern, and Madison Sullivan without whom this project would not have come to fruition

Most importantly, thank you to Miguel Alino for your neverending support and brotherly guidance. Thank you Gertrude, for being my mother. Thank you to everyone who has shown me kindness and grace.

For additional context on my positionality and intention:

A Filipina in Indigenous Land