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... bakla , arguing that the complex encounters between such formations are conditioned by emplaced class and gender hierarchies that stem from both colonial history and a neoliberal cultural context. I argue that in contrast to Filipino gay men in the diaspora who recuperate the practices of the bakla...

... sa Pilipinas . Manila: Cacho, 1992 . Plummer , Ken . “Speaking Its Name: Inventing Gay and Lesbian Studies.” Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience . Ed. K. Plummer. London: Routledge, 1992 . 3 –28. Tan , Michael L. “From Bakla to Gay: Shifting Gender...

..., an activist involved in several groups in the Philippines, remarked, “It’s so impos- sible to break away from the LGBT moniker, because it’s so widely used. I think a more profitable way of going about it is to talk about LGBT as [including] bakla, bayot, tomboy, and transgender.”10...

...” (beauty) take on culturally specific meanings for Filipino gay men and examines the reso- nances, dissonances, and contradictions between uses of gay versus bakla, a Fili- pino term that (very roughly in the manner of Thai kathoey or Indonesian waria) signifies a kind of effeminate male, male...

... and Manhoods across Waters.” GLQ 20 , nos. 1–2 : 115 – 40 . Fontanos Naomi . 2008 . “Mae and Rio: Two Stories of Discrimination Part I.” PinayTG (blog) , August 6 . pinaytg.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html . Garcia J. Neil C. 2000 . “Performativity, the Bakla...

... of people, technology, culture, and ideas than has past historical work on urban sexual subcultures.33 Manalansan’s “global divas” are represented by the somewhat unique sex and gender formation of the bakla, the Filipino homosexual male marked by “effeminate...

... of bakla may be variously glossed as “gay” or “trans,” depending on who uses it and for what purpose. Like Fajardo, he delineates the relation between such categories and practices of colonialism, racialization, and nation formation. Both Benedicto and Fajardo also foreground questions about how...

... migrants. While not as visible in popular culture as baklas, poor tomboys can be found in the pages of Manila-based tabloids, as well as in locally made films such as Tomboy Nora (1970) and T-Bird at Ako (T-Bird and I, 1982), both starring the popular Philip- pine actress...

... by suggesting that although “certain Filipino homosexuals began engaging in different projects of ‘inversion,’ ” they also engaged in “refunctioning” that pathological discourse toward “ ‘liberationist’ ends” (163, 164). Garcia deploys this postcolonial framework whereby the bakla...

... of domesticity. Although there is generative work that centers the experiences of cis Filipinas and bakla 4 in care work scholarship, the queer subjectivities of tomboys are often invisibilized and erased. Selomenio's performances of care as a tomboy at home, then, are particularly important because...

... negotiate Filipino and U.S. American sexual and gender ideologies, taking into account both bakla and gay meanings in their self- constructions. According to Manalansan, the term bakla “encompasses homosexu- ality, hermaphroditism, cross-dressing, and effeminacy,” thus raising the possibility...

... such as stud , aggressive , or femme queen , much less genders understood to be “cultural” and “traditional” such as hijra , bakla , or travesti , to name just a few. Other listicles aspiring to be comprehensive might include some of these terms (and, interestingly, almost all include two-spirit...

... the mistaken association of transgenderism with precapitalist residues of tradition and instead trace how the market has provided a space for the modern Filipino bakla, Thai kathoey, Indonesian waria, and other transgender identities beyond the West to form around...

... Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press; Hong Kong University Press, 2008); J. Neil. C. Garcia, Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM, 2nd ed. (Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press...

... relatively infrequent. This, despite the fact that fifteen years ago Ferguson ( 2007 : 193) theorized the “cosmopolitan bias” of “modern homosexuality” by drawing explicit connections between rural (Black sissy) and urban (bakla) queer formations. 31 Since then, as Manalansan and colleagues ( 2014...