To capture the nuanced voices and experiences of Filipinx-/America, I conducted eight podcast interviews exploring the Filipinx collective and self-identity. By design, recording this podcast I had with my peers granted me the opportunity to share our conversation with a larger audience. This conversational style of interview gave myself and my peers a chance to navigate these topics in a natural way, similar to the Filipino kwentuhan; or storytelling, talking, and/or gossiping.
While these intersecting identities are brought together through their shared commonality of being Filipinx, each respondent reflects a uniquely individual perspective of being Filipinx and participating on Filipino Twitter. These divergent perspectives complicate the definition of Filipino Twitter as the cultural, geographic, regional, generational, and gendered understandings of Filipinxness manifest within the responses of my interviewees. These interviewees express and understand their ethnic identity based on their positionality in this post-colonial landscape. They’ve shared their lived experiences and by doing so present a glimpse into Filipinx America.