Gina Velasco

Gina K. Velasco is a Filipinx American queer feminist writer, teacher, and scholar. She is a 2025 Voices of Our Nations Art Fellow, and she is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality at Haverford College. Her first academic book, Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2020) received an Honorable Mention for Best Book in Filipinx American Studies from the Filipino Section of the Association for Asian American Studies. She is a co-editor, with Dr. Karen Buenavista Hanna, of the collection of essays and poems Beyond the X: Queer and Trans Filipinx Studies (University of Washington Press, forthcoming in 2027). She is currently writing a hybrid memoir that integrates creative nonfiction writing with poetry and images.