Trinity Ordona

Ordoña was born in San Diego, California to Filipino immigrants, where she lived until she was eighteen years old. She attended Immaculate Heart College until 1971, where she majored in liberal arts. From there she attended University of California, Santa Cruz and University of California, Berkeley where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Asian American History. Ordoña went on to receive a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from University of California, Santa Cruz.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ccsf.edu/Info/Faculty_In_Review/7524/|title=CCSF Faculty in Review}}

Ordoña met Desirée Thompson in Hawaii in July 1985. Thompson moved to San Francisco in 1987, when she and Ordoña began their relationship. On June 25, 1988, Ordoña and Thompson married in Golden Gate Park.{{Cite book|title=Filipinos in San Francisco (Images of America series)|author=Filipino American National Historical Society|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2011|isbn=978-0738581316|pages=59}} 120 people attended the marriage ceremony. They drove down Castro Street on the back of a convertible, and on the next day drove the same convertible in the Gay Pride Parade.{{Cite book|title=Ceremonies of the Heart: Celebrating Lesbian Unions|last=Butler|first=Becky|publisher=Seal Pr|year=1990}}

Topics of interest in Ordoña's published works cover the politics of racial triangulation within feminist social justice spaces,{{Cite journal|last=Ordoña|first=Trinity|editor-last=Lim-Hing|editor-first=Sharon|title=Cross-Racial Hostility and Inter-Racial Conflict: Stories to Tell, Lessons to Learn|journal=The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women|pages=391–397}} internalized racism and the idea that shared oppression is not sufficient grounds for solidarity (similar to June Jordan's ideas in "Report from the Bahamas"{{Cite journal|last=Jordan|first=June|date=2003-01-01|title=Report from the Bahamas, 1982|jstor=40338566|journal=Meridians|volume=3|issue=2|pages=6–16|doi=10.1215/15366936-3.2.6|s2cid=141773974}}), identities of alterity, social inequalities and its relationship to privilege.{{Cite journal|last=Ordoña|first=Trinity|editor-last=Anzaldúa|editor-first=Gloria|title=Developing Unity Among Women of Color: Crossing the Barriers of Internalized Racism and Cross-Racial Hostility|journal=Making Face, Making Soul = Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color|pages=304–316}} Her works have been published in anthologies edited by Gloria Anzaldúa, Sharon Lim-Hing,{{Cite book|title=The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings by Asian & Pacific Islander Lesbians|last=Lim-Hing|first=Sharon|date=1998-08-26|publisher=Sister Vision|isbn=9780920813973|language=en|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/veryinsideanthol00limh}} and Maria P. P. Root.{{Cite book|title=Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity|last=Root|first=Maria|publisher=SAGE Publication|year=1997|location=Thousand Oak|pages=230–246}} She has also been published in the Amerasia Journal, in roundtable discussion with other queer women academics about immigration topics, perceived homophobia in Asian American communities, and the Ameri-centric model of coming out.{{Cite journal|last1=Chung|first1=Cristy|last2=Kim|first2=Aly|last3=Nguyen|first3=Zoon|last4=Ordona|first4=Trinity|last5=Stein|first5=Arlene|date=2008-02-05|title=In Our Own Way|journal=Amerasia Journal|language=en|volume=20|issue=1|pages=137–147|doi=10.17953/amer.20.1.b6303611u06ur125}}

In grassroots movements, Ordoña has organized in activism around San Francisco's I-Hotel,{{Cite book|title=San Francisco's International Hotel: mobilizing the Filipino American community in the anti-eviction movement|url=https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscosint00haba|url-access=limited|last=Habal|first=Estella|publisher=Temple University Press|year=2007|isbn=9781592134465|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscosint00haba/page/n196 168]|oclc=191891515}} the Agbayani Village for Retired Farmworkers Union, and anti-Vietnam War efforts. She is a founding member of the [https://aapip.org/our-stories/red-envelope-giving-circle-what-keeps-us-inspired Red Envelope Giving Circle] in the San Francisco Bay Area, a group that has "granted over $42,500 to 22 individual and group projects." There is a collection of Ordoña's papers in the Ethnic Studies Library of the University of California, Berkeley.{{Cite web |title=Ordona, Trinity Papers |url=https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/collections/ordona-trinity-papers |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=LGBTQ Religious Archives Network}}

• APIQWTC's Phoenix Award 2008 with partner Desiree Thompson{{Cite web|url=http://www.apiqwtc.org/phoenix-award-honoree/2008-desiree-thompson-trinity-ordona/|title=Desiree Thompson & Trinity Ordoña|date=January 2008}}
• UCSF Chancellor's Award for Public Service (1999){{Cite news|url=http://global.factiva.com/redir/default.aspx?P=sa&an=bwr0000020010825dv4k014uz&cat=a&ep=ASE|title=UCSF Faculty and Staff Members Honored for Public Service|work=Business Wire}}
• Noted for her activism on the International Hotel, United Farm Workers, Fight Back Campaign against the KKK
• Northern California GLBT Historical Society Award for Individual Historic Achievement{{Cite web|url=http://queerrebels.com/productions/spirit-queer-asian-activism/spirit-may-10th-11th-2013-sf/|title=SPIRIT: A HUNDRED YEARS OF QUEER ASIAN ACTIVISM}}
• BACW Lesbian of Achievement, Vision and Action Award
• Co-host of Bay Area Lesbian Health Conference (2002)
• Presenter in Mumbai conference of international gay and lesbian organizations (2002){{Cite news|url=http://global.factiva.com/redir/default.aspx?P=sa&an=toi0000020021018dyaj0039e&cat=a&ep=ASE|title=Laws on homosexuality archaic - Gay associations|work=The Times of India}}
• Co-founder of APIFP, previously the San Francisco chapter of PFLAG{{cite book|title=LGBT Youth in America's Schools|last2=Cahill|first2=Sean|date=19 April 2012|publisher=University of Michigan Press|page=22|last1=Cianciotto|first1=Jason}}
• Associate Director of the UCSF Lesbian Health Research Center (2002–04)
• "20 Most Influential Lesbian Professors" (2008) by Curve

• Intersectionality
• List of Filipino Americans
• Racism in the LGBT community
• Homophobia in ethnic minority communities

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