[Video] Do You Copy? The Racialized Masquerade of K-pop and Filipino Variety Show Cover Dance

Recorded on March 27, 2025

This talk by Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué, PhD candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University, examines Filipinx mimicry as a powerful myth-making medium. Badiqué asserts that by reproducing racialized masculine iconography through the “splendid dancing” of aspirational Asian male figures, Filipinx have established a decades-long repertoire of playful queer self-fashioning.

This event was hosted by the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, NYSEAN Partner.