Current Work

Christine Vicera (she/hers), is Co-founder and Director of be/longing, a community arts-for-education lab that harnesses the transformative power of storytelling and the creative arts to cultivate cultures of inclusion in Hong Kong. Storytelling and community building are an integral part of her praxis as a community organizer, educator, researcher, and an artist. At HKUST, she is part of the project Navigating Belonging's research team, and she teaches literature and cultural studies at HKBU’s College for International Education. Sisig and Puchero (2021), a documentary short she co-directed, was screened at the 2021 Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival. Her writing has been published in Voice & Verse and Spill Stories, to name a few. She is currently working on a memoir called Home Remedies for Guilt and Grief about the experiences of growing up away from home, in a place she also considers home. christinevicera.wordpress.com

The MALCS program provided me with a critical lens to better understand the world around me, deeply shaping my praxis and approach to community-engaged research and advocacy for racial equity.

Experience from and at MALCS

The MALCS program provided me with a critical lens to better understand the world around me, deeply shaping my praxis and approach to community-engaged research and advocacy for racial equity. The interdisciplinary nature of the MALCS program, specifically its use of Marxist, feminist, and post-colonial frameworks, has influenced the content and design of be/longing’s anti-racist critical public pedagogy programs. The critical insight I gained during my studies inform our efforts to leverage the transformative power of storytelling and the arts to reshape public perception and influence policy for racialized communities in Hong Kong.

Christine Vicera