Katherine Achacoso (sija/she/her) is a queer daughter of Filipinx diaspora, with ancestral ties to Surigao and Bohol. She is the current Guarini pre-to-post doctoral fellow in Asian American Studies at Dartmouth College, with a joint appointment in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program (2022-2024). She recently completed her doctoral studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawai’i, where she had areas of specialization and taught in Critical Indigenous Studies and Diaspora, Gender, and Sexuality (with a focus on Critical Filipinx Studies). Her recent publications can be found in Amerasia, ALON: the Journal for Filipinx American and Diaspora Studies, and the forthcoming Asian American environments reader (under contract at the University of Washington Press). Her book manuscript, Undermining Empire Towards Dangerously Remembering Diasporic Surigaonon Stories of Lands, Rocks, and People that Move is a love letter to her maternal ancestors who come from Surigao and were displaced due to North American mining.