LGBT

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Title of the text: 

Nativism or Universalism Situating LGBT Discourse in the Philippines

Authors of the text: 

J. Neil C. Garcia

Title of the Journal/Publication: 

Kritika Kultura

URL or web address: 

https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/kk/article/view/KK2013.02003

Main Idea: 

This paper offers a postcolonial reading of  LGBT discourse in the Philippines, examining the confluence between the discourse of Western “psychospirituality” and the local idiom of interiority (kalooban), as evinced, in particular, in the minoritized identity of the bakla.

Evidence that support the main idea: 

This conceptual history concludes with the proffering of a theoretical argument about the usefulness of a moderate nativist perspective, that allows for the inclusion of hybridity in the analysis of heteronormative sexual and gendered constructions in sites outside the sexological tradition from which they originally arose.

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Title of the text: 

En-Gendering Desire in Aida Santos’s Lesbian Poetry

Authors of the text: 

Danicar Mariano

Title of the Journal/Publication: 

Kritika Kultura

URL or web address:

https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/kk/article/view/1537

Main Idea: 

This lesbian feminist literary reading of Aida Santos’s poetry critiques heteropatriarchy in language, desire and gender by questioning the binary assumption operative in them.

Evidence that support the main idea: 

This patriarchal assumption intersects with compulsory heterosexuality to marginalize lesbian existence in the world and in the word. This self-same logic operative in language and discourse naturalizes rape by presenting women actively searching for the desire of men.

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Title of the text: 

Resuming the ‘Skilled Worker’ Identity: The Filipinas’ Strategies in Labour Market Participation in Melbourne, Australia

Authors of the text: 

Cirila P. Limpangog

Title of the Journal/Publication:

Kritika Kultura

URL or web address:

https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/kk/article/view/KK2016.02628

Main Idea:

This monograph argues that the women epitomized the classical modernist ideology of the self within a capitalist system.

Evidence that support the main idea: 

It contextualizes the institutional disadvantages and discrimination befalling migrant women of non-English speaking background, as well as housework and mothering responsibilities they continue to resist at home.

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Title of the text: 

A Life Story of a Gay National-Democratic Revolutionary in Southern Mindanao Region

Authors of the text: 

Rowell D. Medulla

Title of the Journal/Publication: 

U.P Diliman Journals Online

URL or web address:

http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/5160

Main Idea:

This study attempts to analyze the life and experiences of gay members of the CPP-NPA-NDFP from the Southern Mindanao Region.

Evidence that support the main idea: 

This includes changes in the ideological perspective to and among members of the LGBT community. Experiences from gender identif ication until the participation to the national-democratic revolution are part of the life story.