Meet the Weaving Women's Voices Team

Kristine Michelle Santos

Researcher/Writer

Kristine Michelle Santos (Researcher/Writer) is the Executive Director of Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (ALiWW) and assistant professor in the Department of History and Japanese Studies Program at Ateneo de Manila University. Her research focuses on social, cultural, at times historical, and affective interventions that impact women’s queer and transformative engagements with Asian media. Her studies examine a wide range of literacies related to comics production, fan networks, and Boys Love culture. She specializes in gender, cultural studies and history, and popular and fan cultures in Asia. Kristine has written on the transcultural flows of queer practices between East and Southeast Asia, self-published comics, and other developments within Philippine comic culture. Her recent publications include “Independent and safe panels for youths: Queer comics in a time of Southeast Asian populism" in Queer Southeast Asia (2022) and "Flirting with gender purrspectives: Contemporary women's activist comics in the Philippines" in Activism and Authoritarian Governance in Asia (2022).