More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit: Insights into Sexual and Gender Diversity in Philippine Culture, History and Politics Biography Fully illustrated with over 500

Fully illustrated with over 500 examples of this previously unrecorded aspect of popular culture

The book makes a powerful combination of two of the country’s most important figures in history who have made significant contributions in the literary field

the provinciana who was raised with values of faith and concern for others has learned that she can do her share of helping the larger society through duty propelled by her faith

Martino Alcoseba Abellana: what he was like

More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit: Insights into Sexual and Gender Diversity in Philippine Culture, History and Politics Biography Fully illustrated with over 500In the Philippines, those who do not fall neatly within the dictated norms of gender and sexuality have often been rendered invisible if not condemned outright by mainstream society heavily steeped in westernized gender roles and Catholic notions of sexual propriety. And yet such individuals have existed throughout our history, from the androgynous bayog and asog shamans of precolonial times to members of the Chinese community persecuted for sodomy in