In Defense of the X
Centering Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Pilipina/x/os, Queer Vernacular, and the Politics of Naming
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9329356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kay Ulanday Barrett (corresponding author), Karen Buenavista Hanna, Anang Palomar |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Alon Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2767-4568 • E-ISSN: 2767-4568 |
| Publisher | eScholarship Publishing, University of California (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5070/ln41253177 |
| OpenAlex | W3185676088 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay is an engagement of the dialectics of naming and violence, discussed from the perspectives of the trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming Pilipina/o/xs whom we interviewed in the Summer of 2020. Applying a transnational queer diasporic methodology, we center their material realities, which we feel remain missing in both scholarly and popular debates about the term “Filipinx.” Indeed, it was LGBTQI+ Pilipinxs in North America who were the first to use the term “Filipinx” and “Pilipinx” in online spaces. Instead of positioning the X as our main focus, we use it as an entry point to discuss the violence that LGBTQI+ people of Philippine-descent have historically faced for simply identifying themselves on their own terms. It is toward such violence that the queer, non-binary, and trans people who began using the X and other linguistic innovations were and are asserting themselves. Revealed are perspectives and practices of dignity, self-determination, resistance against cultural homogenization and gender gatekeeping, and self-naming as radical imagination initiated by those facing intensified carcerality and other forms of violence that stretch within and beyond nation-state boundaries
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Vernacular · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture
| Citations per year | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |