BIOGRAPHY

Allison Masangkay (she/they) is an entity—sick, disabled, trans, queer, femme, cultural worker, scholar, aswang, cyborg, and more—with ancestors from the archipelago referred to as the Philippines. They currently reside in Duwamish territory (Seattle, WA) and previously lived in Jamestown S’Klallam land (Sequim, WA) and Lenni-Lenape land (northern New Jersey). Her current work includes prose writing, sound, and collage envisioning brown, Black, and Indigenous embodiment beyond anti-Blackness, colonialism, and white supremacy. This work highlights their experiences as an aswang (shape-shifting entity in Philippine folklore) and cyborg through the lenses of Philippine folklore, spirituality, and magic while engaging critical theories which unsettle colonial constructs of technology, race, gender, disability, sexuality, humanity, animality, and monstrosity. Currently, Allison is a 2024 Jack Straw Writer and Seattle Public Library Eulalie and Carlo Scandiuzzi Writers’ Room Resident and they were a 2023 Emerge Fellow at the Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University.

Allison’s public DJ practice between 2015-2021 among other QTBIPOC and youth (under 25 years old) still informs ongoing community relationships and learning. Based on research from her undergraduate anthropology thesis in 2018, she co-founded an arts and culture organization, Kapatid Kollective, with four other Filipinx femmes. They facilitated intergenerational events—featuring local, multiply-marginalized artists and organizers in Duwamish territory (Seattle)—with educational workshops, facilitated discussions, performances, and small business vending. 

View Allison's CV: www.allisonmasangkay.com/cv

View their public works at www.allisonmasangkay.com/work.

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